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We investigate the effects of US-imposed trade sanctions on the global trade patterns of sanctioned countries by … partial and complete US sanctions lead to significant reductions in bilateral trade between the US and target countries as … well as between target and third countries. A unit increase in the intensity of complete trade sanctions in place reduces …
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This paper introduces the third update/release of the Global Sanctions Data Base (GSDB-R3). The GSDB-R3 extends the …-R3 has been amended with a new variable that distinguishes between unilateral and multilateral sanctions. As before, the … highlight one of the new features of the GSDB, we estimate the heterogeneous effects of unilateral and multilateral sanctions on …
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Using a new, global data base covering the years 1950 to 2015, we study the impact of sanctions on international trade … 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 …
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Capitalizing on the latest developments in the gravity literature, we utilize two new datasets on sanctions and trade … to study the impact of economic sanctions on international trade in the mining sector, which includes oil and natural gas …. We demonstrate that the gravity equation is well suited to model bilateral trade in mining and find that sanctions have …
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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 effective in impeding agricultural trade, while other sanctions do …
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Under extraterritorial sanctions the sanctioning country extends its policies to trade of third countries with the … game-theoretic model to explain the emergence of extraterritorial sanctions. Such trade sanctions i) do not arise when the … emergence of extraterritorial trade sanctions. …
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In an interconnected world, economic and political interests inevitably reach beyond national borders. Since policy …
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We empirically analyze the effect of UN and US economic sanctions on life expectancy and its gender gap in target … matching approach to account for the endogeneity of sanctions. Our results indicate that an average episode of UN sanctions … reduces life expectancy by about 1.2-1.4 years. The corresponding decrease of 0.4-0.5 years under US sanctions is …
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We analyze the effect of state visits by the Catholic pope on human rights in the host country to understand how a small theocracy like the Vatican can exert disproportionate political influence in international politics. Our theoretical model of the strategic interaction between the Catholic...
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This paper examines the impact of coalitions on the economic costs of the 2012 Iran and 2014 Russia sanctions. By … losses for sanctions senders and target; (ii) compare prospective coalition partners; (iii) investigate "optimal" coalitions … that maximise payoff from sanctions; (iv) provide bounds for sanctions potential, i.e. the maximum welfare change …
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