Are U.S. sanctions off-target:evidence from the Magnitsky act

Djankov, Simeon

; and Su, Meng Are U.S. sanctions off-target:evidence from the Magnitsky act. Economics Letters, 242: 111889. ISSN 0165-1765

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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.

Item Type	Article
Keywords	Magnitsky act,economic sanctions,human rights abuse,perceptions of corruption
Departments	Financial Markets Group
DOI	10.1016/j.econlet.2024.111889
Date Deposited	30 Jul 2024 09:51
URI	https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/124415

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https://www.fmg.ac.uk/people/simeon-djankov (Author)
https://www.lse.ac.uk/economics/people/research-students/meng-su (Author)
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10.1016/j.econlet.2024.111889 (DOI)

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