When Words Are Worse Than Bullets: a Study of Corruption as an Unintended Consequence of Threats of Sanctions
Journal: Journal of Bioresource Management
Year: 2017

A Study of Corruption as an Unintended Consequence of Threats of Sanctions.This research contributes to the debates on the efficacy of economic sanctions as a tool of international diplomacy.It focuses on corruption, one of the potential unintended consequences of sanctions.Using multiple regression on a custom cross-sectional time series dataset of more than a thousand observations, this research finds the correlation between threats of sanctions and level of corruption statistically significan