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Reputation, Exposure, and Exit: Organizational Turnover after #MeToo
Roy Baharad, Asaf Eckstein, Gideon Parchomovsky +1
We study how economy-wide reputational shocks reshape corporate governance by examining board and executive turnover following the MeToo movement. We conceptualize the October 2017…
Long-Term Health and Human Capital Effects of Universal Health Care and Mass Literacy: Evidence from Cuba
Giovanni Mellace, Rok Spruk
We estimate long-run effects of Cuba's 1961 National Health Service and contemporaneous National Literacy Campaign using synthetic-control methods on newly assembled series for 21…
Statehood Without Capacity
Rok Spruk
This paper develops a political-economy theory of statehood without capacity. I argue that under specific institutional and geopolitical conditions, a polity can become trapped in…
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…
Revolutions as Structural Breaks: The Long-Term Economic and Institutional Consequences of the 1979 Iranian Revolution
Nuno Garoupa, Rok Spruk
This paper examines whether major political institutional disruptions produce temporary shocks or structural breaks in long-term development. Using the 1979 Iranian Revolution as a…
Populist Constitutional Backsliding and Judicial Independence: Evidence from Turkiye
Nuno Garoupa, Rok Spruk
The synthetic control method has emerged as a widely utilized empirical tool for estimating the causal effects of public policies, natural disasters, and other interventions on var…
Effect of Austerity Measures on Infant Mortality: Evidence from Greece
Robert J. Kolesar, Rok Spruk
This study examines the effect of fiscal austerity measures on infant mortality in Greece. Austerity measures were initiated by the tripartite committee and implemented between 201…
Islamic Law, Western European Law and the Roots of Middle East's Long Divergence: a Comparative Empirical Investigation (800-1600)
Hans-Bernd Schaefer, Rok Spruk
We examine the contribution of Islamic legal institutions to the comparative economic decline of the Middle East behind Latin Europe, which can be observed since the late Middle Ag…
Estimating the Effects of Syrian Civil War
Aleksandar Keseljevic, Rok Spruk
We examine the effect of civil war in Syria on economic growth, human development and institutional quality. Building on the synthetic control method, we estimate the missing count…
The perils of Kremlin's influence: evidence from Ukraine
Chiara Natalie Focacci, Mitja Kovac, Rok Spruk
We examine the contribution of institutional integration to the institutional quality. To this end, we exploit the 2007 political crisis in Ukraine and examine the effects of stayi…