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Previous Webinars​

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Panel session on Political Economy of Revolutions
12th of April 2023

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Chair: Massoud Karshenas (IIEA President and SOAS, University of London)

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Speakers: 

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• Jerg Gutmann (University of Hamburg and at the University of Freiburg) on Repression and Revolution - When do Regimes Tie Their Hand? See below for a couple of papers that Jerg mentioned at the webinar:

  • ​Precision‑guided or blunt? The effects of US economic sanctions on human rights​​

  • Sanctioned to Death? The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Life Expectancy and its Gender Gap​

  • Economic Sanctions and Human Rights: Quantifying Proportionality

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• Mohammad Reza Farzanegan (IIEA Board Member and Philipps-Universität Marburg) on the Great Equalizer? Revolution and War's Effect on Income Inequality in Iran. See below for a couple of papers that Mohammad mentioned at the webinar: ​

  • The effect of Islamic revolution and war on income inequality in Iran

  • ​Effect of oil revenues on size and income of Iranian middle class

  • ​The Economic Cost of the Islamic Revolution and War for Iran: Synthetic Counterfactual Evidence

  • ​Social Development and Revolution in Iran

  • ​Economic Welfare and Inequality in Iran

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