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conflict between Russia and Ukraine. The impact of the conflict on Russia may have been amplified by sanctions imposed by … rates, oil prices, actual and unanticipated sanctions, we provide evidence on the driving forces of the Ruble exchange rate … sanctions matter for the conditional volatility of the variables involved. …
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The conflict between Russia and Ukraine that started in March 2014 resulted in bilateral economic sanctions imposed by … Russia and Western countries, including the members of the euro area (EA). The paper investigates the impact of sanctions on … the real side of the economy of Russia and the EA. Using an index that measures intensity of sanctions the effects of …
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This paper examines the impact of coalitions on the economic costs of the 2012 Iran and 2014 Russia sanctions. By … sanctions potential - the maximum welfare change attainable - when sanctions are scaled vertically, i.e. across sectors up to an … Russia inflicted considerable economic harm, yielding 32-37% of the vertical sanctions potential. Our key finding is that …
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Über die Rolle der Energievorkommen am Kaspischen Meer gibt es eine rasch wachsende geopolitische Literatur, bei der ökonomische Aspekte bisher weitgehend vernachlässigt wurden. So wird bis heute auf die große Bedeutung der kaspischen Erdöl- und Erdgasvorkommen verwiesen, obwohl die...
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Are capital controls and macroprudential measures successful in achieving their objectives? Assessing their effectiveness is complicated by selection bias and endogeneity; countries which change their capital-flow management measures (CFMs) often share specific characteristics and are responding...
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Do WTO commitments reduce the risk of trade policy reversals? To address this question, we rely on the theoretical model of varying cooperative tariffs by Bagwell and Staiger (1990) to specify our empirical model for the probability of a tariff increase. We then study how WTO tariff commitments...
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Understanding whether laws shape or simply reflect citizens' attitudes is important but empirically difficult. We provide new evidence on this question by studying the relationship between legal same-sex relationship recognition policies (SSRRPs) and attitudes towards sexual minorities in...
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Research on ethno-linguistic ties has so far mostly focused on domestic measures of ethno-linguistic heterogeneity. Little attention has been given to the possibility that ethno-linguistic relations between countries may affect out- comes, particularly in a spatial econometric context. In this...
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This paper analyses the impact of violent conflict on economic growth using micro-level data from Indonesia. We compile a panel dataset at district level for the period 2002-2008, and disentangle the overall negative economic effect of violent conflict into its sectoral components. Our results...
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We study the multifaceted effects of trade policy shocks on financial markets using a structural vector autoregression identified via event day heteroskedasticity. We find that restrictive US trade policy shocks affect US and international stock prices heterogeneously, but generally negatively....
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