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Membership has its privileges : the effect of membership in international organizations on FDI

Dreher, Axel; Mikosch, Heiner; Voigt, Stefan - 2010

We argue that membership in International Organizations (IOs) is an important determinant of FDI inflows. To the extent that membership restricts a country from pursuing policies that are harmful to investors, it can signal low political risk. Using data over the 1971-2005 period, we find that...

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International trade and stable resolutions of resource disputes

Garfinkel, Michelle Robin; Syropoulos, Constantinos - 2022

We consider a dynamic setting in which two sovereign states with overlapping ownership claims on a resource/asset ﬁrst arm and then choose whether to resolve their dispute violently through war or peacefully through settlement. Both approaches depend on the states' military capacities, but...

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Trade interdependence, arming and the choice between war and peace

Garfinkel, Michelle Robin; Syropoulos, Constantinos - 2025 - Current Version: March 29, 2025

We consider a dynamic setting where two countries with competing claims to a resource/asset first arm and then choose whether to resolve their dispute through war or peacefully through settlement. War precludes international trade and can be destructive, but also locks gains and eliminates...

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The determinants of election to the United Nations Security Council

Dreher, Axel; Gould, Matthew; Rablen, Matthew; … - 2012

predicts, for instance, World Bank and IMF loans. But who gets elected to the UNSC? Addressing this question empirically is not …

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The costs of favoritism : is politically-driven aid less effective?

Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2010

World Bank projects and generally find that projects that are potentially politically motivated - such as those granted to … governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank … Council members with higher short-term debt, however, a negative quality rating is more likely. So we find evidence that World …

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Freeze! : financial sanctions and bank responses

Efing, Matthias; Goldbach, Stefan; Nitsch, Volker - 2018

We study the effects of financial sanctions on cross-border credit supply. Using a differences-in-differences approach to analyze eleven sanctions episodes between 2002 and 2015, we find that banks located in Germany reduce their positions in countries with sanctioned entities by 38%. The...

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Sanctioned to death? : the impact of economic sanctions on life expectancy and its gender gap

Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2019

We empirically analyze the effect of UN and US economic sanctions on life expectancy and its gender gap in target countries. Our sample covers 98 less developed and newly industrialized countries over the period 1977-2012. We employ a matching approach to account for the endogeneity of...

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Extraterritorial trade sanctions : theory and application to the US-Iran-EU conflict

Janeba, Eckhard - 2022

Under extraterritorial sanctions the sanctioning country extends its policies to trade of third countries with the sanctioned country. A prominent example is former US President Trump's decision to leave the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), a multilateral agreement with Iran. The...

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Do China and Russia undermine US sanctions? : evidence from DiD and event study estimation

Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2022

A frequently employed argument against imposing international sanctions is that rival superpowers are likely to bust sanctions to simultaneously shield the target, harm the sender, and make a profit. We evaluate the legitimacy of this concern by studying the effect of US sanctions on trade flows...

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Property rights to the world's (linear) ocean fisheries in customary international law

Barrett, Scott - 2023

I model the ocean as an array of lines set within a two-dimensional frame, and show how the Exclusive Economic Zone emerged as an equilibrium in customary international law. I find that custom codifies the efficient Nash equilibrium of enclosure for nearshore fisheries. For highly migratory and...

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