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Confrontation with the West and Long-Run Economic and Institutional Outcomes: Evidence from Iran
Rok Spruk
This paper studies the long-run economic and institutional consequences of Iran's confrontation with the West, treating the 2006-2007 strategic shift as the onset of a sustained co…
Pricing Catastrophe: How Extreme Political Shocks Reprice Sovereign Risk, Beliefs, and Growth Expectations
Riste Ichev, Rok Spruk
Extreme political shocks may reshape economies not only through contemporaneous disruption but by altering beliefs about the distribution of future states. We study how such belief…
Assaults on Judicial Independence under the Pretense of Modernization: Evidence from Venezuela
Nuno Garoupa, Virginia Rosales, Rok Spruk
We investigate how government-orchestrated assaults on the judiciary, disguised as modernization efforts, undermine judicial independence. Our study focuses on Venezuela's constitu…
The Economic Dividends of Peace: Evidence from Arab-Israeli Normalization
Mitja Kovac, Rok Spruk
This paper provides the first causal evidence on the long-run economic dividends of Arab-Israeli peace treaties. Using synthetic control and difference-in-differences estimators, w…
From Revolution to Ruin: An Empirical Analysis Yemen's State Collapse
Riste Ichev, Rok Spruk
We assess the broad repercussions of Yemen's 2011 revolution and subsequent civil war on its macroeconomic trajectories, human development, and quality of governance by constructin…
Ethnic Conflicts, Civil War and Economic Growth: Region-Level Evidence from former Yugoslavia
Aleksandar Keseljevic, Stefan Nikolic, Rok Spruk
We investigate the long-term impact of civil war on subnational economic growth across 78 regions in five former Yugoslav republics from 1950 to 2015. Leveraging the outbreak of et…