This study examines the impact of international economic sanctions, imposed on Iran due to its nuclear program, on the … these sanctions post-2012. To address this question, we employ a synthetic control model to create a counterfactual scenario … for Iran, using a weighted average of other comparable countries that mirror pre-sanction Iran, but did not experience …

In an interconnected world, economic and political interests inevitably reach beyond national borders. Since policy …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

that crude oil is not a homogenous good and that the relevant substitutability for analyzing the impact of trade sanctions … in crude oil refining resulting from sanctions. …

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 …