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This dissertation examines the determinants of initiations and outcomes of economic sanctions. It is a collection of three papers that answer different but related questions regarding the effectiveness of economic sanctions. In the first part of my dissertation, I pose the quest…

Most judgments and choices in life arrive not as disconnected and isolated problems but as the next in a series enmeshed in a social context. The works contained herein, in one way or another, examine the role of context in shaping human judgment and decision making. The first e…