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The sword and the shield : the economics of targeted sanctions
Ahn, Daniel P.; Ludema, Rodney D. - 2019
estimate the impact on firm performance from smart sanctions deployed by the U.S. and EU against Russia beginning in 2014. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001872
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The Golden Revolving Door
Cen, Ling; Cohen, Lauren; Wu, Jing; Zhang, Fan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Using both the onset of the US-China trade war in 2018 and the most recent Russia-Ukraine war and associated trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014576650
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Private Sanctions
Hart, Oliver D.; Thesmar, David; Zingales, Luigi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Russia after the invasion of Ukraine. 61% of respondents think that firms should exit Russia, regardless of the consequences …. Only 37% think that leaving Russia is a purely business decision. If a firm does not conform with these desires, 66% of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477220
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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
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The impact of UN and US economic sanctions on GDP growth
Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374064
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010356172
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336190
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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 study contributes to the literature that analyzes the consequences of economic sanctions for the target country's human rights situation. We offer a political economy explanation for different types of human rights infringements or improvements in reaction to economic shocks caused by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557921
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010505144
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011497921