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The Economic Effects of International Sanctions : An Event Study
Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2021
Although international sanctions are a widely used instrument of coercion, their economic effects are still not fully understood. This study uses a novel dataset and an event study approach to evaluate the economic consequences of international sanctions, thereby accounting for pre-treatment...
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Do China and Russia Undermine US Sanctions? Evidence from DiD and Event Study Estimation
Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2022
purposefully undermine US sanction efforts, we test whether target countries’ trade with China and Russia increases under US trade … sanctions. We find no evidence for systematic sanction busting. Russia does not change its trade patterns with sanctioned …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241320
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The Effects of International Sanctions on Military Spending of Iran : A Synthetic Control Analysis
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2019
sanction to the factual Iran with sanction for the period of 2003-2015. Over the entire 2013-2015 period, per capita military … 2015 on military spending of Iran. We create a synthetic control group that mimics the socioeconomic characteristics of … Iran before the international sanctions of 2012. We then compare the military spending of the counterfactual Iran without …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859051
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Identifying the Effects of Sanctions on the Iranian Economy Using Newspaper Coverage
Laudati, Dario; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2021
sanctions, Iran's average annual growth could have been around 4 - 5 per cent, as compared to the 3 per cent realized. Sanctions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013217359
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Survival Strategies Under Sanctions : Firm-Level Evidence from Iran
Cheratian, Iman; Goltabar, Saleh; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2022
Enterprises (MSMEs) survival strategies during the international sanctions against Iran. Using data from a questionnaire of 486 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013305647
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Sanctioned to Death? The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Life Expectancy and its Gender Gap
Gutmann, Jerg - 2020
We empirically analyze the effect of UN and US economic sanctions on life expectancy and its gender gap in target countries. Our sample covers 98 less developed and newly industrialized countries over the period 1977–2012. We employ a matching approach to account for the endogeneity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843428
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Freeze! Financial Sanctions and Bank Responses
Efing, Matthias - 2019
We study the effects of financial sanctions on cross-border credit supply. Using a differences-in-differences approach to analyze eleven sanctions episodes between 2002 and 2015, we find that banks located in Germany reduce their positions in countries with sanctioned entities by 38%. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892162
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On the Effects of Sanctions on Trade and Welfare : New Evidence Based on Structural Gravity and a New Database
Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2019
literature. Starting with a broad evaluation by sanction type, we carefully investigate the case of Iran. Effects are significant … perform a counterfactual analysis which translates our partial equilibrium sanction estimates into heterogeneous but intuitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866418
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The Sword and the Shield : The Economics of Targeted Sanctions
Ahn, Daniel P. - 2019
How effective are “smart” sanctions in imposing costs on an adversary? We consider this question in a model where a targeted regime may choose to “shield” strategically important firms from harm. Using detailed firm and individual data, we estimate the impact on firm performance from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871020
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Quantifying the Impact of Economic Sanctions on International Trade in the Energy and Mining Sectors
Larch, Mario; Shikher, Serge; Syropoulos, Constantinos; … - 2021
on mining trade across mining industries and across sanction episodes/cases, depending on the sanctioning and sanctioned … on Iran and Russia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246911