In August 2014, the Russian Federation implemented an embargo on select food and agricultural imports from Western countries in response to...

The extensive margin of bilateral trade exhibits a high level of persistence that cannot be explained by geography or trade policy. We...

Kiel Policy Brief Special Corona-Update 1: In times of a sudden crisis, such as the coronavirus, official statistics cannot cope with current...

Economic sanctions are a frequent instrument of foreign policy. In a diplomatic conflict, they aim to elicit a change in the policies of...

How do exporting firms react to sanctions? Specifically, which firms are willing — or capable — to serve the market of a sanctioned country?...

The Austrian ski resort of Ischgl is commonly claimed to be ground zero for the diffusion of the SARS-CoV-2 virus across Germany. Drawing on...

Venezuela has seen an unprecedented exodus of people in recent months. In response to a dramatic economic downturn in which inflation is...

Economic sanctions are a frequently used tool of foreign policy. Constraining trade flows towards or from the target country is supposed to...

The proliferation of international supply chains makes the domestic production of goods increasingly dependent on inputs from foreign sources....

Economic determinants of economic integration agreements (EIAs) have received ample attention in the economic literature. Political...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 147: Military interventions and economic sanctions are increasingly seen as strategic substitutes for achieving national...

KBW 32: The buzzword "big data" is used to describe new and unconventional data sources that differ from standard business statistics.