Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - Fach Volkswirtschaftslehre, Universität Trier - 2015
In this paper, we analyze the effect of US economic sanctions on the target countries’ poverty gap during the period 1978–2011. Econometrically, we employ a nearest neighbor matching approach to account for differences in the countries’ economic and political environment and the likelihood...