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Precision-guided or blunt? : the effects of US economic sanctions on human rights

Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2016 - First draft: 7 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...

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Lower sanctions, greater antitrust compliance? : cartel conduct with imperfect information about enforcement risk

Paha, Johannes - 2014

This article provides a model of two risk-neutral firms that may cooperate to achieve a goal that is potentially illegal. The model assumes enforcement risk and firms that are imperfectly informed about antitrust law enforcement. It is shown that compliance training, which educates the agents...

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Always affecting the wrong people? : the impact of US sanctions on poverty

Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2015 - This version: 6 April 2015

In this paper, we analyze the effect of US economic sanctions on the target countries' poverty gap during the period 1978 - 2011. Econometrically, we employ a nearest neighbor matching approach to account for differences in the countries' economic and political environment and the likelihood of...

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Sanctions and the shadow economy : empirical evidence from Iranian provinces

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Hayo, Bernd - 2018

Using Iranian-province-level data from 2001-2013, this study finds that the international sanctions of 2012/2013 had a significantly stronger negative impact on the growth rate of the shadow economy than they did on the official GDP growth rate. Thus, the international sanctions on Iran have...

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Do sanctions reduce the military spending in Iran?

Dizaji, Sajjad Faraji; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2018 - This version: 11.10.2018

multilateral sanctions (where, the United States acts in conjunction with other countries to sanction Iran), we show that only the …

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The impact of UN and US economic sanctions on GDP growth

Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2014 - This version: 28 March 2014

In this paper, we empirically assess how economic sanctions imposed by the UN and the US affect the target states' GDP growth. Our sample includes 68 countries and covers the period 1976 - 2012. We find that sanctions imposed by the UN have a statistically and economically significant influence...

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Iranian-oil-free zone and international oil prices

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Parvari, Mozhgan Raeisian - 2014

exportation restrictions in addition to investment in Iranian energy related projects. Senders of such sanction are interested in … dynamic response of international oil prices to Iranian oil export sanction. Controlling for the supply of non-Iranian oil and … exports, our proxy of Iran oil sanctions. However, the increasing response of oil prices to the Iranian oil sanction is only …

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Political institutions and government spending behavior in Iran

Dizaji, Sajjad Faraji; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2014

This study examines how quality of political institutions affects the distribution of government budget and how development of government spending in major sections shapes the political institutions in Iran. This question has become especially important due to recent international sanctions,...

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Effect of oil sanctions on the macroeconomic and household welfare in Iran : new evidence from a CGE model

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Mohammadikhabbazan, Mohammad; … - 2015

sanction crisis. In addition, labor income increases while the capital income falls in response to oil sanctions in Iran. These … simulations are in line with re ality of the Iranian economy in post-oil sanction period. …

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Economic sanctions, energy efficiency, and environmental impacts : evidence from Iranian industrial sub-sectors

Jabari, Leyla; Salem, Ali Asghar; Zamani, Omid; … - 2024

Improving energy efficiency is vital for curtailing energy consumption and can have substantial impacts on alleviating carbon emissions. This study investigates the impact of sanctions on Iran's energy efficiency across different industrial sub-sectors from 2015 to 2019. We compute a sanctions...

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