Illegal arms are responsible for thousands of deaths in civil wars every year. Yet, their trade is very hard to detect. We propose a method to statistically detect illegal arms trade based on the investor knowledge embedded in financial markets. We focus on eight countries under UN arms embargo...

Some States, the United States in particular, have given their export controls and economic boycotts extraterritorial application. As a result, persons and companies in other States have been prevented from exporting to or investing in the States that are actually the targets of the boycott. It...

Чтобы отстаивать свои экономические интересы в мировом хозяйстве, Россия должна уделять должное внимание регулированию и контролю внешнеэкономической...

This paper offers a theoretical model explaining the demand for small arms and light weapons. It views sub-state armed groups as producers who use illegally obtained guns as inputs into the production of a basic commodity (e.g., a shared political goal). The probability that sub-state groups...

Im Regelwerk des General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) werden seit langer Zeit nichttarifäre Handelshemmnisse, bei gleichem Außenschutz, als wesentlich problematischere handelspolitische Instrumente angesehen als tarifäre Handelshemmnisse. Ein bedeutender Grund ist, dass die...

This paper examines the impact of voluntary export restraints (VERs) in an international duopoly modelled as a differential game. With a Ramsey capital accumulation dynamics, the game admits multiple steady states, and a VER cannot be 'voluntarily' employed by the foreign firm in case of Cournot...