On the Effects of Sanctions on Trade and Welfare: New Evidence Based on Structural Gravity and a New Database

Gabriel Felbermayr, Constantinos Syropoulos (), Erdal Yalcin and Yoto Yotov

No 7728, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: Using a new, global data base covering the years 1950 to 2015, we study the impact of sanctions on international trade and welfare. We make use of the rich dimensionality of our data and of the latest developments in the structural gravity literature. Starting with a broad evaluation by sanction type, we carefully investigate the case of Iran. Effects are significant but also widely heterogeneous across sanctioning countries. Moreover, they depend on the direction of trade. We also perform a counterfactual analysis which translates our partial equilibrium sanction estimates into heterogeneous but intuitive general equilibrium effects within the same framework.

Keywords: sanctions; effectiveness of sanctions; structural gravity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F10 F13 F14 F50 F51 H50 N40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-his and nep-int
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (14)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.cesifo.org/DocDL/cesifo1_wp7728.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: On the Effects of Sanctions on Trade and Welfare: New Evidence Based on Structural Gravity and a New Database (2019)
Working Paper: On the effects of sanctions on trade and welfare: New evidence based on structural gravity and a new database (2019)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ces:ceswps:_7728

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Klaus Wohlrabe ().