Is political compliance a precondition for healthy trade relations with China? The Chinese government frequently threatens that meetings between its trading partners' officials and the Dalai Lama will be met with animosity and ultimately harm trade ties with China. We run a gravity model of...

The Chinese government frequently threatens that meetings between its trading partners' officials and the Dalai Lama will be met with animosity and ultimately harm trade ties with China. We run a gravity model of exports to China from 159 partner countries between 1991 and 2008 to test to which...

Mit dem Abschuss einer Passagiermaschine mit 298 Insassen über der Ostukraine am 17. Juli 2014 mutmaßlich durch pro-russische Separatisten haben die Beziehungen zwischen Russland und dem Westen einen neuen Tiefpunkt erreicht. Bereits am 17. März 2014, einen Tag nach dem erfolgreichen...

Using a new, global data base covering the years 1950 to 2015, we study the impact of sanctions on international trade and welfare. We make use of the rich dimensionality of our data and of the latest developments in the structural gravity literature. Starting with a broad evaluation by sanction...

During the twentieth century, economic sanctions became more prevalent. In the twenty-first century they have become a frequently used tool for governments seeking to change the behaviour of other countries. An extensive research literature exists on the effectiveness of sanctions. Overall the...

Economic sanctions are punishment for bad behaviour and, like a parent punishing a child, they are usually imposed by a bigger more powerful country and they are intended to coerce the child in to stopping their bad behaviour. The motivations to using economic sanctions are very broad, so in...

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...