Crimea and punishment: The impact of sanctions on Russian economy and economies of the euro area

Artikel

The conflict between Russia and Ukraine that started in March 2014 led Western countries and Russia to impose economic sanctions on each other, including the euro zone members. The paper investigates the impact of the sanctions on the real side of the economies of Russia and the euro area. The effects of sanctions are analyzed with a structural vector autoregression. To pin down the effect we are interested in, we include an index that measures the intensity of the sanctions in the model. The sanction shock is identified and separated from the oil price shock by narrative sign restrictions. We find weak evidence that Russian and euro area GDPs declined as a result of the sanctions. The effects of the sanctions are also small for the real effective exchange rate.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: Baltic Journal of Economics ; ISSN: 2334-4385 ; Volume: 19 ; Year: 2019 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 39-51 ; London: Taylor & Francis

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes; State Space Models ; International Conflicts; Negotiations; Sanctions
• Subject: Political conflict ; sanctions ; economic growth ; Russia ; euro area ; structural vector autoregression

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Kholodilin, Konstantin ; Netšunajev, Aleksei
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Taylor & Francis
• (where): London
• (when): 2019

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.1080/1406099X.2018.1547566
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/267562
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET