How do exporting firms react to sanctions? Specifically, which firms are willing - or capable - to serve the market of … a sanctioned country? We investigate this question for four sanctions episodes drawing on recent econometric advances in … exporting firms. We find that the introduction of new sanctions significantly lowers firm-level probabilities of serving the …

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

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 …

Using a new, global data base covering the years 1950 to 2015, we study the impact of sanctions on international trade … literature. Starting with a broad evaluation by sanction type, we carefully investigate the case of Iran. Effects are significant … perform a counterfactual analysis which translates our partial equilibrium sanction estimates into heterogeneous but intuitive …

Using a new, global data base covering the years 1950 to 2015, we study the impact of sanctions on international trade … literature. Starting with a broad evaluation by sanction type, we carefully investigate the case of Iran. Effects are significant … perform a counterfactual analysis which translates our partial equilibrium sanction estimates into heterogeneous but intuitive …

Taking the multilateral sanctions program launched against Russia in 2014 as a case study, this paper investigates the … studies is employed to construct counterfactuals. The estimation results demonstrate that in Russia following sanctions and … economic effects of sanctions and counter-sanctions on a target economy. A synthetic control method for comparative case …

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 … reduces life expectancy by about 1.2-1.4 years. The corresponding decrease of 0.4-0.5 years under US sanctions is …

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 …

equilibrium counterfactual exercise. Each of the episodes, sanctions against Iran, Russia and Myanmar, are instructive in their …Economic sanctions are a frequently used tool of foreign policy. Constraining trade flows towards or from the target … country is supposed to coerce its government into changing certain policies. However, sanctions constitute an obstacle to …