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SUMMARY:GDI Webinar: No Blood in My Mobile: Regulating Foreign Suppliers
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ninon Moreau Kastler\, postdoctoral economist at the
  Paris School of Economics\n\nCan developed countries enforce that goods
  consumed domestically do not contribute to human rights violations in d
 eveloping countries where they are sourced? This paper studies the enfor
 cement of new due diligence policies\, which constrain firms in develope
 d countries to prevent human rights violations involvement of their fore
 ign suppliers. \n\nI study the US Dodd-Frank Act Conflict Mineral Rule (
 2010)\, a law targeting specific conflict minerals extracted in DRC and 
 adjoining countries. I explore how diligence obligations have affected t
 he regulated source countries’ access to international markets and wheth
 er diligence is circumvented through legal havens. \n\nComparing targete
 d bilateral trade flows to non-targeted products and exporters within th
 e structural gravity framework\, I find that this policy decreased DRC a
 nd adjoining countries’ exports in value of 3T products by 72%. \n\nBut 
 this new extraterritorial rule has unintended consequences: I estimate t
 hat 38% of exports are diverted to opaque countries\, called legal haven
 s after the law is implemented. Exports are then redirected to countries
  hosting suppliers of US-regulated firms. Looking at US firms’ reactions
 \, I show that sales drop\, while administrative costs increase at the t
 ime of the law.\n\nRegister: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/y630SSx2QS
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