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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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The Global Sanctions Data Base – Release 3 : COVID-19, Russia, and Multilateral Sanctions
Syropoulos, Constantinos; Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; … - 2022
This paper introduces the third update/release of the Global Sanctions Data Base (GSDB-R3). The GSDB-R3 extends the period of coverage from 1950-2019 to 1950-2022, which includes two special periods – COVID-19 and the war between Russia and Ukraine. The new update of the GSDB contains a total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241203
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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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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232415
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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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One Foe, so Many Fights. Making Sense of Covid-19 Policies
Kempf, Hubert - 2020
This paper develops a tractable model of a society hit by a viral pandemic. It is sufficiently rich so as to relate the optimal decisions of the policymaker to the underlying characteristics of this society, in terms of preferences, social mores and economic structures. This allows us to make...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832185
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Rescue Policies for Small Businesses in the COVID-19 Recession
Nola, Alessandro Di; Kaas, Leo; Wang, Haomin - 2022
While the COVID-19 pandemic had a large and asymmetric impact on firms, many countries quickly enacted massive business rescue programs which are specifically targeted to smaller firms. Little is known about the effects of such policies on business entry and exit, factor reallocation, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013293851
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How Do Institutions Affect the Impact of Natural Disasters?
Bos, Jaap W.B; Gröschl, Jasmin; Lamers, Martien; Li, … - 2023
In this paper we study how differences in the quality of countries’ institutions affect the impact of natural hazards in these countries. To do so, we first build a new data set that allows us to adequately control for countries’ development and geological characteristics and,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014264154
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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