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Culture, Cold War, and Trade
This study evaluates how the impact of cultural differences on trade evolves over time, especially after the Cold War. W…
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Decentralization Reform in Ukraine
The current Ukrainian political system, which is a highly centralized “winner-take-all” system, is one of the main cause…
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Governance Quality as a Determinant of FDI: the Case of Russian Regions
This brief highlights the results of a study of the effect of poor governance quality on foreign direct investment in Ru…
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Whither Russia’s History Thought? Trends in Historical Research, Teaching and Policy-Making
The next Russian generation’s understanding of their country’s past may turn out to be more refined and complex than at…
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The Arab Spring Logic of the Ukrainian Revolution
Motivated by the unusual patterns and dynamics of the Arab Spring, we construct a model explaining the vulnerability of…
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The Charity of the Extremely Wealthy
Analyzing data from the Giving Pledge (a public pledge to give away at least half of one’s fortune during one’s lifetime…
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The Customs Union Between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan: Some Evidence from the New Tariff Rates and Trade Flows
Author: Arevik Mkrtchyan, European University Institute. This brief addresses the Customs Union between Russia, Belarus…
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Political Islam and Women’s Rights – Evidence from Turkey
In this policy brief, I discuss how state-of-the-art econometric techniques can be used to shed light on the causal effe…
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Empirical Evidence on Natural Resources and Corruption
This policy brief addresses the relationship between resource wealth and a particular institutional outcome – corruption…
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