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We study the long-term economic legacy of highly-skilled minorities a century after their wholesale expulsion. Using mass expulsions of Armenian and Greek communities of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century as a unique natural experiment of history, we show that districts with greater...
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Mass deportations and killings of Ottoman Armenians during WWI and the Greek-Turkish population exchange after the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922 were the two major events of the early 20th century that permanently changed the ethno-religious landscape of Anatolia. These events marked the end of...
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The aim of this study is to examine the effects of terrorism on economic growth experienced worldwide. More precisely …
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We use the Hsiao-Granger method to test for growth-terrorism causality for seven Western European countries. In … bivariate settings, the impact of economic performance on domestic terrorism is very strong. In trivariate settings, the impact … of performance on terrorism diminishes. Here, we find that economic performance leads terrorist violence in robust ways …
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In this paper, we empirically assess how economic sanctions imposed by the UN and the US affect the target states' GDP growth. Our sample includes 68 countries and covers the period 1976-2012. We find, first, that sanctions imposed by the UN have a statistically and economically significant...
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In this paper, we empirically assess how economic sanctions imposed by the UN and the US affect the target states' GDP growth. Our sample includes 68 countries and covers the period 1976 - 2012. We find that sanctions imposed by the UN have a statistically and economically significant influence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335871
Although international sanctions are a widely used instrument of coercion, their economic effects are still not well-understood. This study uses a novel dataset and an event study approach to evaluate the economic consequences of international sanctions, thereby visualizing pre-treatment and...
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In this paper, we empirically assess how economic sanctions imposed by the UN and the US affect the target states' GDP growth. Our sample includes 68 countries and covers the period 1976-2012. We find, first, that sanctions imposed by the UN have a statistically and economically significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435134
In this paper, we empirically assess how economic sanctions imposed by the UN and the US affect the target states' GDP growth. Our sample includes 68 countries and covers the period 1976-2012. We find, first, that sanctions imposed by the UN have a statistically and economically significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374064