Cardoso, Diego S.; Salant, Stephen W.; Daubanes, Julien - 2025
To reduce funds for Russia’s Ukraine invasion, Western governments imposed a price ceiling on Russian seaborne oil … exports using Western services. To sell above that ceiling, Russia developed a “shadow fleet” which uses no such services. We … present value of Russia’s profits, we find that the tighter the ceiling and the tighter the enforcement, the less harm …