Are victims of human rights abuses better off with or without economic sanctions targeted at their perpetrators? We …

sanctions on each other, including the euro zone members. The paper investigates the impact of the sanctions on the real side of … the economies of Russia and the euro area. The effects of sanctions are analyzed with a structural vector autoregression …. To pin down the effect we are interested in, we include an index that measures the intensity of the sanctions in the …

Using a new, global data base covering the years 1950 to 2015, we study the impact of sanctions on international trade …

, targets can bluff in order to deter coercion attempts. I find that while sanctions are a weakly dominant tool of influence … committing to a certain course of action for the entire duration of interaction. Moreover, using rewards and sanctions in …

In this paper, we empirically analyze the effect of UN and US economic sanctions on life expectancy and its gender gap … employ a matching approach to account for the endogeneity of sanctions. Our results indicate that an average episode of UN … sanctions reduces life expectancy by about 1.2-1.4 years. The corresponding decrease of 0.4-0.5 years under an average episode …

Union as a countermeasure to sanctions introduced by the EU and several other countries after Russia's actions in Ukraine … and the annexation of Crimea. This paper assesses the effect of Russia's counter-sanctions on the economies of the Baltic … problems in international trade data due to re-exports. The amount of trade affected by Russia's counter-sanctions varies …

its value against the US dollar. The impact of the conflict on Russia may have been amplified by sanctions imposed by … interest rates, oil prices, actual and unanticipated sanctions, we provide evidence on forces underlying the ruble exchange …, unanticipated sanctions matter for the conditional volatility of the variables involved. …

We empirically analyze the effect of UN and US economic sanctions on life expectancy and its gender gap in target … matching approach to account for the endogeneity of sanctions. Our results indicate that an average episode of UN sanctions … sanctions is significantly smaller. In addition, we find evidence that women are affected more severely by the imposition of …