Trade restrictions and conflict commodities: market reactions to regulations on conflict minerals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo

In this paper, I use an event study approach to investigate the claim that conflict minerals legislation in the United States (US) led to a ban on some mining exports from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and that the passage of US regulation caused a ban on both production and trade by r...

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Main Author: Seitz, W
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2012