Are U.S. sanctions off-target: evidence from the Magnitsky act
Djankov, S.
& Su, M.
(2024).
Are U.S. sanctions off-target: evidence from the Magnitsky act.
Economics Letters,
242,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2024.111889
& Su, M.
(2024).
Are U.S. sanctions off-target: evidence from the Magnitsky act.
Economics Letters,
242,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2024.111889
We compile data on US sanctions under the Magnitsky Act from 2017 to 2024 and find that such sanctions are weakly corelated with human rights abuses in the home countries of the sanctioned persons but are uncorrelated with perceptions of corruption.
