Etkes, Haggay; Zimring, Assaf - In: Journal of International Economics 95 (2015) 1, pp. 16-27
This paper uses detailed household expenditure and firm production data to study the welfare consequences of the blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip between mid-2007 and mid-2010. Using the West Bank as a counterfactual economy, we find that welfare declined by 14%–27%. Moreover, households...