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Sanctioned to death? : the impact of economic sanctions on life expectancy and its gender gap
Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2017 - This version: 13 September 2017
In this paper, 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...
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Economic sanctions and human rights : quantifying the legal proportionality principle
Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian; … - 2018
proportionality test, both of which rest on empirical premises. The necessity test involves an assessment of whether a legal sanction … is well-suited to achieve its objective. The proportionality test questions the causal link between the sanction and the … human rights situation in the country against which the sanction is aimed. This study analyzes the empirical basis of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011848583
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The economic effects of international sanctions : an event study
Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2021 - This Version: April 7, 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/10012499927
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Precision-guided or blunt? : the effects of US economic sanctions on human rights
Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2016 - This version: 18 July 2016
We use endogenous treatment-regression models to estimate the causal average treatment effect of US economic sanctions on four types of human rights. In contrast to previous studies, we find no support for adverse effects of sanctions on economic rights, political and civil rights, and basic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011668295
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International sanctions and emigration
Gutmann, Jerg; Langer, Pascal; Neuenkirch, Matthias - 2024 - This Version: January 5, 2024
results for joint EU-US sanctions imply a gradual increase in emigration over the course of a sanction episode. The impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014446598
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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 - This Version: November 13, 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 …
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Political economy of international sanctions
Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2024
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