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From Bilateral Trade to Multilateral Pressure

This paper investigates the economic consequences of a scenario in which the European Union (EU) imposes economic sanctions on Sudan. The idea of the paper is motivated by the deteriorating relations between Sudan and the EU arising from the...

  • International economic relations
  • International trade
  • Sanctions
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Enforcing Peace Agreements through Commitment Technologies

This paper models the instability of peace agreements, motivated by the empirical regularity with which peace agreements tend to break down following civil war. When war provides opportunities for profit to one side, or when other difficulties such...

  • Conflict management
  • Dispute resolution
  • Sanctions
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Economic sanctions and trade flows in the neighbourhood

We investigate the effect of economic sanctions on trade flows in countries sharing a border with the sanctioned state. On the one hand, trade models suggest that trade flows should decrease as sanctions disrupt trading routes and economic ties with...

  • Sanctions
  • Trade
  • Synthetic control method
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Trade sanctions and informal employment

This paper examines how trade sanctions affect the allocation of workers across formal and informal employment. We analyse the case of the unexpected and unprecedented trade sanctions imposed on Iran in 2012. We use a difference-in-differences...

  • International trade
  • Informal work
  • Labour market
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Sanction-busting through tax havens

Financial sanctions, which aim to economically hurt a target by restricting its access to financial assets and markets, require the ability to identify who owns an asset. Although experts have long claimed that offshore financial centres that offer...

  • Sanctions
  • Financial assets
  • Tax havens
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Enforcing Peace Agreements in Fragile States through Commitment Technologies

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  • Sanctions
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Growth, Capital Accumulation, and Economic Reform in South Africa

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  • Economic growth
  • Economic policy
  • Natural resources
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Unintended consequences of economic sanctions for human rights

Are victims of human rights abuses better off with or without economic sanctions targeted at their perpetrators? We study this question in the context of a US human rights policy, Section 1502 of the 2010 Dodd–Frank Act. By discouraging companies...

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  • Infant mortality
  • Civil conflict
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To Aid or Not to Aid?: The Case of Rwanda, DFID, and the Good Aid Debate
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by Omar Shahabudin McDoom January 2013

Omar Shahabudin McDoom What should donors do when confronted with regimes that violate important normative standards of state behavior and commit...

  • Agriculture
  • Criminal law
  • Democracy
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