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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Precision-guided or blunt? : the effects of US economic sanctions on human rights

Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2016 - First draft: 7 July 2016

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A Game Theoretical Analysis of Economic Sanction

Ash Shidiqi, Khalifany - 2011

Economic sanction has been widely used and increasingly a popular tool in maintaining peace and political stability in … the world. The use of economic sanction, as opposed to the use of military power, to punish target countries have been … sender country(s) in enforcing economic sanction, however, it did not change the probability of the target country(s) in …

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Paying a Visit : The Dalai Lama Effect on International Trade

Fuchs, Andreas - 2011

The Chinese government frequently threatens that meetings between its trading partners' officials and the Dalai Lama will be met with animosity and ultimately harm trade ties with China. We run a gravity model of exports to China from 159 partner countries between 1991 and 2008 to test to which...

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Early Phase Success and Long Run Failure of Economic Sanctions : With an Application to Iran

Dizaji, Sajjad - 2012

We develop a model of the dynamics of economic sanctions in conjunction with the response of the sanction target. We … first two to four years of the sanction episode only because adjustment of economic structures mitigates the economic and …

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The Effect of Economic Sanctions on Iran's Exports

Shirazi, Homayoun - 2016

After the Islamic Revolution of 1978, Iran has been affected by economic sanctions imposed by Western countries especially the U.S. Since 2006 and with the development of the Iranian nuclear conflict, the United Nations has frequently imposed economic and financial sanctions against Iran. As a...

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Ineffective, Immoral, Politically Convenient : America's Overreliance on Economic Sanctions and What to Do About It

Hanania, Richard - 2020

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