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Survival strategies under sanctions : firm-level evidence from Iran

Cheratian, Iman; Goltabar, Saleh; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2022

Given the importance of firm strategic management in time of crises, this study investigates Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) survival strategies during the international sanctions against Iran. Using data from a questionnaire of 486 firms between December 2019 to September 2020, we...

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Economic warfare

Spiro, Daniel - 2023

What actions should we expect countries to take when engaged in economic warfare? This paper first shows that the goal of winning a war implies a very simple and intuitive objective of economic warfare: maximize one's own less the opponent's (weight-adjusted) payoff. This objective function is...

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Smart or smash? : the effect of financial sanctions on trade in goods and services

Besedeš, Tibor; Goldbach, Stefan; Nitsch, Volker - 2023

We examine the extent to which financial sanctions imposed by Germany through its European Union and United Nations commitments cause collateral damage on Germany's trade in goods and services. Financial sanctions reduce Germany's inflows and outflows of financial assets, as well as imports and...

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Cheap talk? : financial sanctions and non-financial activity

Besedeš, Tibor; Goldbach, Stefan; Nitsch, Volker - 2018

Sanctions restrict cross-border interactions and, therefore, not only put political and economic pressure on the target country, but they also adversely affect the sender country. This paper examines the effect of financial sanctions on the country imposing them. In particular, we analyze the...

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Gutmann, Jerg; Langer, Pascal; Neuenkirch, Matthias - 2025 - This version: June 4, 2025

data for the period 1970 to 2004 are estimated to evaluate whether more similar leaders are less likely to sanction each … other. Our results indicate that higher leader similarity significantly reduces the likelihood of sanction imposition. The … effect is most pronounced for sanctions imposed through unilateral political decisions. The probability of such sanction …

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Bypassing sanctions : hide'n seek in tax havens?

Langenmayr, Dominika; Tovmasyan, Mikayel; Vosseler, … - 2025

Russia following the annexation of Crimea confirms our main findings, showing a 15% post-sanction increase in offshore …

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Political salience and regime resilience

Schweighofer-Kodritsch, Sebastian; Huck, Steffen; … - 2025

We introduce political salience into a canonical model of attacks against political regimes, as scaling agents’ expressive payoffs from taking sides. Equilibrium balances heterogeneous expressive concerns with material bandwagoning incentives. We examine comparative statics in salience that...

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Economic sanctions and agricultural trade

Larch, Mario; Luckstead, Jeff; Yotov, Yoto - 2021

Combining two new datasets on sanctions and agricultural trade and implementing step-by-step the latest developments in the empirical structural gravity literature, we investigate the effects of sanctions on international trade of agricultural products. We find that trade sanctions have been...

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Extraterritorial trade sanctions : theory and application to the US-Iran-EU conflict

Janeba, Eckhard - 2022

Under extraterritorial sanctions the sanctioning country extends its policies to trade of third countries with the sanctioned country. A prominent example is former US President Trump's decision to leave the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), a multilateral agreement with Iran. The...

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The extraterritorial effects of sanctions

Kwon, Ohyun; Syropoulos, Constantinos; Yotov, Yoto - 2022

We provide quantitative evidence that the primary effects of economic sanctions on trade and welfare are accompanied by strong extraterritorial effects — estimates of the former effects may be significantly biased if the latter effects are not taken into account. Furthermore, while the...

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