The Impact of International Economic Sanctions on Trade An empirical Analysis

Raul Caruso ()

International Trade from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: International economic sanctions appear to be a common and recurring feature of political interactions between states. In particular, the United States is the country which has most frequently applied negative economic sanctions after World War II. In a parallel way, several measures, imposed by a multilateral organisation like the United Nations have taken place in recent years. This paper provides, through a gravity model approach, an estimation of the impact of economic negative sanctions on international trade. First, the study reports panel gravity estimates of bilateral trade between the U.S. and 49 target countries over the period 1960-2000, inclusive. The results show that extensive and comprehensive sanctions have a large negative impact on bilateral trade, while this is not the case for limited and moderate sanctions. A second estimation focuses on the impact of unilateral U.S. sanctions on bilateral trade volume between target countries and the other G-7 countries over the same period. The results show that unilateral extensive sanctions have a large negative impact, while limited and moderate ones induce a slight positive effect on other G-7 countries bilateral trade. Thus, in the first case the hypothesis of negative ‘network effects’ is confirmed, while in the latter the sanctions- busting argument should be defended. In both estimations, however, multilateral sanctions demonstrate a large negative impact on trade flows.

Keywords: International negative sanctions; international trade; gravity model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F02 F13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2003-06-04
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