The global sanctions data base

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Kirilakha, Aleksandra; Syropoulos, Constantinos; Yalçin, Erdal; Yotov, Yoto V.

doi:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2020.103561

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“…Our indicators for international sanctions are taken from the novel Global Sanctions Database (Felbermayr et al 2020a;Kirilakha et al 2021). We limit our analysis to sanctions by the United Nations, the United States, and the European Union, since these are the senders with the largest number of sanction episodes.…”

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“…Some transmission channels are even tested empirically for the first time. Moreover, we employ a novel dataset of international sanctions with an unprecedented quality and time-and country-coverage (Felbermayr et al 2020a;Kirilakha et al 2021).…”

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“…Section 2 describes our estimation approach, which follows closely the event study design of Schmidheiny and Siegloch (2020) and adds standard difference-in-differences estimations. Moreover, we discuss the data employed in our empirical analysis with an emphasis on the novel sanctions dataset collected by Felbermayr et al (2020a) and Kirilakha et al (2021). In Section 3, we present our empirical results and discuss them in light of the extant evidence in the literature.…”

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Although international sanctions are a widely used instrument of coercion, their economic effects are still not fully understood. This study uses a novel dataset and an event study approach to evaluate the economic consequences of international sanctions, thereby accounting for pre-treatment dynamics in countries subject to sanctions.Our analysis focuses on the effects of sanctions on GDP growths as well as various transmission channels through which sanctions affect economic activity. We document a significant negative effect of international sanctions on GDP growth and its components (consumption, investment, and government expenditures) as well as on trade and foreign direct investment. Additional panel difference-in-differences estimations reveal that this detrimental effect is driven by financial sanctions and US unilateral sanctions.

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The Economic Effects of International Sanctions: An Event Study

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“…Zudem ist weltweit zunehmend die Anwendung eines weiteren geoökonomischen Druckmittels zu beobachten: Sanktionen. Die Zahl der verhängten Sanktionen ist von etwa 20 im Jahr 1950 auf etwa 250 im Jahr 2019 gestiegen (Felbermayr et al, 2020). Diese werden im Gegensatz zu den breit angelegten Sanktionsregimen der 1970erund 1980er-Jahre etwa gegen Kuba oder den Iran, unter denen die Bevölkerung massiv litt, immer gezielter auf die Sektoren Finanzen, Reisen, militärische Unterstützung und Handel ausgerichtet.…”

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2021

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“…'Material Conflict'. The closest available data set to identify events of material aggression between countries is the Global Sanctions Database (Felbermayr, Kirilakha, Syropoulos, Yalcin and Yotov, 2020), which provides a list of publicly traceable international sanctions (classified as military, trade, However, it is important to reiterate that the imposition of sanctions is merely a single constituent of the quantified indicator of the 'Material Conflict' F P category, which is a potential reason for the low β coefficient.…”

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Diverting Domestic Turmoil

Amarasinghe

2020

SSRN Journal

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When faced with intense domestic turmoil, governments may strategically engage in foreign interactions to divert the public's attention away from pressing domestic issues. I test this hypothesis for a globally representative sample of 190 countries, at the monthly level, over the years 1997-2014. Using textual data on media-reported events retrieved from the GDELT database, I find robust evidence that governments resort to diversionary tactics in times of domestic turmoil and that such diversion takes the form of verbally aggressive foreign interactions, typically targeted at 'weak' countries and countries closely linked along religious, linguistic and geographic dimensions. Strategically important trade partners are unlikely to be victimized. These findings suggest that diversionary foreign policy is, in fact, systematically practised by governments as a strategic tool, and that such diversion is exercised in a manner that may not lead to large scale costs or risks of retaliation.

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The global sanctions data base

Cited by 184 publications

References 21 publications

The Economic Effects of International Sanctions: An Event Study

The Economic Effects of International Sanctions: An Event Study

Globalisierung trifft Geoökonomie

Diverting Domestic Turmoil

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