Kwon, Ohyun; Syropoulos, Constantinos; Yotov, Yoto - 2022
Direct measures of the economic impact of sanctions are contaminated by the endogeneity that arises when other events … sanctions. To address this issue, we propose a novel instrument, sender's aggressiveness, captured by the number of sanctions … imposed in a given year. After establishing the validity of this instrument, we quantify the impact of sanctions on growth in …