unintended consequences
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Unintended consequences: When policy backfires in unforeseen ways
Evidence on VoxDev has shed light on many examples of unintended consequences in economics. What have we learned from when things go wrong?
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The unintended consequences of Brazil’s landmark anti-corruption campaign
Anti-corruption campaigns – such as Brazil’s Lava Jato – can reduce corruption but may also trigger significant unintended economic costs – disrupting credit markets while reducing employment and wage bills across both targeted and non-targeted firms...
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How (not) to win the war on drugs: Evidence from Colombia
Announcements of future policies can have substantial unintended consequences and caused a surge of coca production in Colombia