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Do sanctions strengthen the targeted regime? I analyze the 2014 imposition of Western sanctions on Russia and its impact on voting. The United States and the European Union introduced targeted measures against Russian entities and individuals related to President Putin’s regime. Using polling...

The recent trade disputes and the technological rivalry between the US and China make the effects of trade policy one of the most relevant economic subject areas. We employ a multi-country, multi-sector general equilibrium modelling framework with imperfect competition and heterogeneous firm...

What would increase government support around EU enlargement, and what role could membership play in future peace talks? During two summits in March 2022, in Versailles and Brussels, European leaders expressly declined to grant candidate status or even a membership perspective to Georgia,...

The Fragility Forum 2022: Development and Peace in Uncertain Times will revisit some of the key findings of the WDR 2011, how the global response to FCV has evolved since, and what is now top of the agenda considering what we have learned as well as the dramatically changed global landscape we...

In light of the recent tit-for-tat trade dispute between China and the US, interest in quantifying the effects of the so-called phase one agreement has risen. To this end, the paper quantifies the impact of the asymmetric managed trade agreement using such a multi-country open-economy dynamic...

Workshop Program: - Five facts about the UIP Premium; - The People vs the Markets: A Parsimonious Model of Inflation Expectations; - Global inflation, monetary policy and spillovers on EM; - The end of privilege: a reexamination of the net foreign asset position of the United States; - Are...

Western sanctions exposed Russia’s key vulnerabilities - dependence on Western capital and advanced technology, with knock-on effects in other sectors. In response, Russia launched a policy of import substitution and attempted to diversify to non-Western countries to mitigate the impact of...

Die erste bidt Konferenz nimmt den digitalen Wettbewerb von Staaten und Wirtschaftsräumen in den Fokus. Thema wird unter anderem sein, auf welchen Gebieten und in welcher Form digitaler Wettbewerb zwischen den Regionen USA, China und Europa stattfindet und welche Rolle dabei Deutschland...

We study the impact of global financial sanctions on the Russian banks and economy. Financial sanctions were consecutively imposed between 2014 and 2019, allowing potentially-targeted (but not yet sanctioned) banks to adjust their international and domestic exposures. Compared to similar other...