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In an interconnected world, economic and political interests inevitably reach beyond national borders. Since policy choices generate external economic and political costs, foreign state and non-state actors have an interest in inflencing policy actions in other sovereign countries to their...
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We empirically analyze the effect of UN and US economic sanctions on life expectancy and its gender gap in target … matching approach to account for the endogeneity of sanctions. Our results indicate that an average episode of UN sanctions … reduces life expectancy by about 1.2-1.4 years. The corresponding decrease of 0.4-0.5 years under US sanctions is …
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In this paper, we empirically analyze the effect of UN and US economic sanctions on life expectancy and its gender gap … employ a matching approach to account for the endogeneity of sanctions. Our results indicate that an average episode of UN … sanctions reduces life expectancy by about 1.2-1.4 years. The corresponding decrease of 0.4-0.5 years under an average episode …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763569
In this paper, we empirically analyze the effect of UN and US economic sanctions on life expectancy and its gender gap … employ a matching approach to account for the endogeneity of sanctions. Our results indicate that an average episode of UN … sanctions reduces life expectancy by about 1.2-1.4 years. The corresponding decrease of 0.4-0.5 years under an average episode …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011719842
While economic sanctions may be attractive policy tools for governments wanting to express discontent with a country …'s behaviour, it is arguable if from an economic perspective sanctions can achieve the change that is often envisaged through the … punitive measures taken. In fact, the literature does not present conclusive evidence that economic sanctions are an effective …
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concludes that satellite data modeled with gauge station flow can help reduce the uncertainty inherent in negotiating …
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The rapid economic rise of China, India, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) could have several effects on regional peace and global security. The power transition perspective overstates the risk of conflict that results from convergence between dominant and challenger states....
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Transnational activism has become an increasingly salient dynamic of world politics in several issue areas including human rights, environment, development, women’s rights, and peace. The article first assesses how major international relations theories look at them. While realist theories do...
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This paper studies the impact of market power on international commodity prices. I use a standard oligopoly model and exploit historical variations in the structure of the international coffee bean market to assess the impact of a cartel treaty on coffee prices and its global welfare...
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and rewards of tackling climate change in the G-20 and finds that despite its seeming attractiveness, the G-20, as …
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