Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/162190 
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Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
FIW Working Paper No. 174
Publisher: 
FIW - Research Centre International Economics, Vienna
Abstract: 
Economic sanctions are a popular diplomatic tool for countries to enforce political demands abroad or to punish non-complying countries. There is an ongoing debate in the literature if this tool is effective in reaching these goals. This paper adds to the literature by treating sanctions like a negative form of trade agreements. In order to quantify the direct effects of sanctions on the trade flows between countries I make use of a gravity equation controlling for country pair, importer-year, and exporteryear fixed effects. The estimates reveal that there is a significant decrease in the value of trade after the introduction of sanctions. In a second step, trade diversion is introduced as a potential instrument for countries to soften the negative impact of sanctions. However, the estimates reveal no evidence for trade diversion.
Subjects: 
gravity
international trade
trade sanctions
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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