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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…