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Did austerity cause Brexit? This paper shows that the rise of popular support for the UK Independence Party (UKIP), as the single most important correlate of the subsequent Leave vote in the 2016 European Union (EU) referendum, along with broader measures of political dissatisfaction, are...
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380 local authority areas in the United Kingdom. We find that exposure to the EU in terms of immigration and trade …
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The recent literature on firm-to-firm trade has documented salient empirical regularities of the buyer-seller network … assessment of theoretical models that aim to identify the determinants of firm-to-firm networks in international trade. …
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We investigate the effects of US-imposed trade sanctions on the global trade patterns of sanctioned countries by … partial and complete US sanctions lead to significant reductions in bilateral trade between the US and target countries as … well as between target and third countries. A unit increase in the intensity of complete trade sanctions in place reduces …
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globalization by reducing the costs of doing business and trade in dealing with sizable shadow economy in Egypt. …This study examines the economic globalization and the shadow economy nexus in Egypt. Using time series data from 1976 … economic globalization is negative and statistically significant for the first three years following the shock. This finding is …
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trade with the EU, along with past electoral support for UKIP (and the BNP) and exposure to immigration from Eastern Europe …
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The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between globalization, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19 … countries with higher levels of socio-economic globalization are exposed more to COVID-19 outbreak. Nevertheless, globalization …
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response face a trade-off between maximizing political targeting and mitigating domestic economic harm? We use the recent trade … escalation between the US, China, the European Union (EU) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) countries to answer …
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How domestic constituents respond to signals of weakness in foreign wars remains an important question in international relations. In this paper, we study the impact of battlefield casualties and media coverage on public demand for war termination. To identify the effect of troop fatalities, we...
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Formal conceptions of state capacity have mostly focused on indirect measures of state capacity - by, for instance, using the state's fiscal or extractive capacity as a proxy for its overall capacity. Yet, this input or extractive view of state capacity falls short, especially since...
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