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

Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010512086

The pro-Russian conflict and its impact on stock returns in Russia and the Ukraine

Hoffmann, Manuel; Neuenkirch, Matthias - 2015 - This version: 6 January 2015

We analyze the impact of the pro-Russian conflict on stock returns in Russia and the Ukraine during the period November 21, 2013 to September 29, 2014. We utilize a newly created indicator for the degree of (de-)escalation based on an Internet search for conflict-related news. We find that...

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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 …

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The impact of UN and US economic sanctions on GDP growth

Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2014 - First draft: 28 March 2014, This version: 20 May 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, first, that sanctions imposed by the UN have a statistically and economically significant...

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The economic effects of international sanctions : an event study

Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2021 - This Version: October 26, 2021

over the first years of a sanction episode and that sanctioned countries fail to recover during or immediately after the …

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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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International sanctions and emigration

Gutmann, Jerg; Langer, Pascal; Neuenkirch, Matthias - 2023 - This version: January 5, 2024

EU-US sanctions imply a gradual increase in emigration over the course of a sanction episode. The impact of UN sanctions …

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Hawks and doves : financial market perception of Western support for Ukraine

Neuenkirch, Matthias; Repko, Maria; Weber, Enzo - 2023

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the West has been intensively discussing its support strategy. Hawkish positions of strengthening Ukraine via armaments, financial resources, and sanctions against Russia compete with dovish views of avoiding further escalation of the...

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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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