We investigate the effects of US-imposed trade sanctions on the global trade patterns of sanctioned countries by … study explores how sanctions impact trade dynamics. The results reveal that both partial and complete US sanctions lead to … significant reductions in bilateral trade between the US and target countries, with complete sanctions showing a more substantial …

Financial sanctions, which aim to economically hurt a target by restricting its access to financial assets and markets … offer secrecy ('tax havens') undermine sanctions by hiding ownership information, so far data limitations have prevented a … findings confirm that target countries evade sanctions by moving large portions of their funds from sanctioning countries to …

We examine Russian imports since a coalition of countries imposed sanctions on exports to Russia. As Russia no longer …

impose targeted measures (e.g., "smart" sanctions) that hurt the antagonist directly, and comprehensive measures (e.g., trade …

Countries increasingly form alliances to collectively impose sanctions. However, the resulting impact of such … coordination remains unclear. Analyzing the 2014 wave of sanctions against Russia over 400,000 simulations with a quantitative … welfare losses incurred from sanctions and intensified welfare losses imposed on Russia. Results also reveal significant …

public transportation fare by i) highlighting sanctions for non-compliance and ii) appealing to compliance norms whereby 90 … percent of passengers pay the fare. We find that both sanctions and norms treatments raise compliance. However, only appeals …

This paper investigates whether sanctions imposed in the wake of the Ukraine crisis by Western countries and Russia … related to the detection of illicit trade, I find that goods facing sanctions imposed by the Russian government in particular … have most likely been evaded. While the detected amounts do not question the general effectiveness of the sanctions, they …

distress. This article revisits the diversionary theory and adapts it to the use of economic sanctions in the United States …, contending that their use follows a similar diversionary logic. Using a novel dataset on US sanctions from 1989 to 2015, I find … that presidents are more likely to use sanctions when unemployment is high and the president's party power in Congress is …