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International human rights treaty to change social patterns : the convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women
Cho, Seo-Young - 2010
women's rights; in particular, (i) whether the effects are stronger if a member country has a higher level of democracy; and … with a higher degree of democracy. These findings are robust to the choice of control variables and the method of …. -- effectiveness of international human rights treaties ; women's rights ; social dimension ; democracy ; and reservations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003944668
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International Women's Convention, Democracy and Gender Equality
Cho, Seo-Young - 2016
cultural practice toward gender equality and this effect is conditional on the level of democracy of a member state. However …, the joint effect of CEDAW and democracy does not seem to create any significant impact on women’s political and economic … rights, nor does CEDAW or democracy alone affect any dimension of the women’s rights. These results indicate that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014153777
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Sanctioned to Death? The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Life Expectancy and its Gender Gap
Gutmann, Jerg - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843428
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Sanctioned to Death? The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Life Expectancy and Its Gender Gap
Gutmann, Jerg - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012932860
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012157271
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Climate policy options and the World Trade Organization
Hufbauer, Gary Clyde; Kim, Jisun - 2009
This paper examines whether the climate policy options policymakers are contemplating are compatible with core principles of the world trading system set forth in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the World Trade Organization (WTO), and Appellate Body decisions. The authors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003847288
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Compliance for big brothers : an empirical analysis on the impact of the anti-trafficking protocol
Cho, Seo-young; Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya - 2010
The Anti-trafficking Protocol reflects the interests of the major powers. Due to the high costs of compliance, countries will strategically select certain obligations to comply, which can satisfy the major powers with smaller costs. Among the three main obligations of the Protocol - prevention,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008860409
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Indisputably essential : the economics of dispute settlement institutions in trade agreements
Keck, Alexander (contributor); Schropp, Simon (contributor) - 2007
Economic theory has made considerable progress in explaining why sovereign countries cooperate in trade. Central to most theories of trade cooperation are issues of self-enforcement: The threat of reprisal by an aggrieved party maintains the initial balance of concessions and prevents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003544790
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The optimal design of trade policy flexibility in the WTO
Mahlstein, Kornel; Schropp, Simon A. B. - 2007
This paper is a contribution to the literature on rational design of trade agreements. The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an incomplete contract among sovereign states. Incomplete contracts contain gaps. Ex post, contractual gaps may leave gains from trade unrealized; they may create...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003874811
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Revisiting the "compliance-vs.-rebalancing" debate in WTO scholarship : towards a unified research agenda
Schropp, Simon A. B. - 2007
This paper constitutes an attempt to reframe and eventually deflate the ongoing “compliance-vs.-rebalancing” debate which has permeated WTO scholarship for the last 10 years. Our main criticism concerns the substance of the entire debate. We find that scholars on both sides of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003874814