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Pacem in Terris: Are Papal Visits Good News for Human Rights?
Endrich, Marek; Gutmann, Jerg - 2022
We analyze the effect of state visits by the Catholic pope on human rights in the host country to understand how a small theocracy like the Vatican can exert disproportionate political influence in international politics. Our theoretical model of the strategic interaction between the Catholic...
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Vicarious learning and socio-economic transformation in Indian Trans-Himalaya
Chandrasekhar, K.; Bhaduri, Saradindu - 2005
Recently, it has been suggested that the process of economic development should ideally be viewed as a socioeconomic transformation. Such a view requires a comprehensive understanding of how agents learn and change their behaviour. However, these aspects have only been inadequately addressed in...
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The role of observation, cognition, and imagination in Keynes's approach to decision-making
Almeida, Felipe; Curado, Marcelo - In: EconomiA 20 (2019) 1, pp. 15-26
The search for psychological content or support for economic decision-making is a subject that is contemporaneously stressed. Considering Keynesian and Post-Keynesian economics, it is possible to perceive several approaches that reclaim behavioral economics as a psychological support for...
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Aid withdrawal as punishment for defaulting sovereigns? An empirical analysis
Brandt, Jana; Jorra, Markus - 2012
This paper empirically investigates whether donor countries punish sovereign defaults by reducing foreign aid ows. Our findings reject the hypothesis formulated in the theoretical literature that a default leads to a loss of foreign aid for the defaulting country. Creditor countries directly...
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Military spending and economic growth: The case of Iran
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2012
current increasing international sanctions aim to reduce the military capabilities and capacities of the Iranian government …
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A framework to enforce anti-predation rules
Hüschelrath, Kai; Weigand, Jürgen - 2009
The paper develops a framework to enforce anti-predation rules that explicitly takes the intervention stage into account. In particular, it is proposed to improve predation enforcement by focusing on two channels: refining the current regime, and amending it. With respect to the refinement of...
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The ruble between the hammer and the anvil: The impact of oil prices and economic sanctions
Dreger, Christian; Kholodilin, Konstantin - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 5 (2015) 44, pp. 587-591
hand with the Western sanctions that were imposed due to the political tensions between Russia and Ukraine. At the same … due to the falling oil prices, while the sanctions are playing a rather subordinate role. …
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Der Rubel zwischen Hammer und Amboss: Der Einfluss von Ölpreisen und Wirtschaftssanktionen
Dreger, Christian; Kholodilin, Konstantin - In: DIW Wochenbericht 82 (2015) 44, pp. 1051-1056
hand with the Western sanctions that were imposed due to the political tensions between Russia and Ukraine. At the same … due to the falling oil prices, while the sanctions are playing a rather subordinate role. …
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The impact of monitoring and sanctioning on unemployment exit and job-finding rates
McVicar, Duncan - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
appropriate level of job search activity, and by imposing sanctions for infractions. Empirical studies consistently show that job … search monitoring and benefit sanctions reduce unemployment duration and increase job entry in the short term. There is some … evidence that longer-term effects of benefit sanctions may be negative. …
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Under heavy pressure: Intense monitoring and accumulation of sanctions for young welfare recipients in Germany
van den Berg, Gerard; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wolff, Joachim - 2015
With the introduction of a new welfare benefit system in 2005, Germany implemented quite strict benefit sanctions for … cut for three months. We analyze the impact of these sanctions on job search outcomes and on transitions out of the labor … job, but that these jobs go along with lower earnings due to first but not the second sanction. Moreover, first sanctions …
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