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The price of sanctions: An empirical analysis of German export losses due to the Russian agricultural ban

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  • Svetlana Fedoseeva
  • Roland Herrmann

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The aim of this paper is to contribute to the vivid political discussion on the consequences of the Russian agricultural import ban on the German export market by quantifying export losses that German agri‐food exporters encountered on the Russian market due to the agricultural import ban of 2014. A gravity‐type approach is used to measure the sanction effect in a panel of German agri‐food exports covering the period from January 1999 to June 2018. The ban effect is disentangled from a sequence of different geopolitically‐ and economically driven episodes. Once macroeconomic developments of the Russian economy as well as individual stages of decreasing trade cooperation in the preban period are accounted for, the import ban reduced German agri‐food exports significantly but was not the major cause. Therefore, a simple elimination of the ban will not be enough to restore trade to the presanctions level. L'objectif de ce document est de contribuer à la discussion politique animée sur les conséquences de l'embargo russe de 2014 sur les exportations de produits agricoles allemand, en quantifiant les pertes qui y sont associées. Une approche de type modèle de gravité est utilisée pour mesurer l'effet de sanction chez un groupe d'exportations agroalimentaires allemandes couvrant la période allant de janvier 1999 à juin 2018. L'effet de l'embargo est dissocié d'une série d'épisodes géopolitiques et économiques. Une fois que l'on a pris en compte l’évolution macroéconomique de l’économie russe et les différents stades de la réduction de la coopération commerciale au cours de la période qui a précédé l'embargo, l'interdiction d'importer a réduit considérablement les exportations agroalimentaires allemandes, sans toutefois en être la cause principale. Par conséquent, une simple élimination de l'interdiction ne suffira pas pour ramener le commerce au niveau d'avant les sanctions.

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  • Svetlana Fedoseeva & Roland Herrmann, 2019. "The price of sanctions: An empirical analysis of German export losses due to the Russian agricultural ban," Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, Canadian Agricultural Economics Society/Societe canadienne d'agroeconomie, vol. 67(4), pages 417-431, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:canjag:v:67:y:2019:i:4:p:417-431
    DOI: 10.1111/cjag.12194
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    1. Mikhail Krivko & Luboš Smutka, 2021. "Agricultural and Foodstuff Trade between EU28 and Russia: (Non)Uniformity of the Russian Import Ban Impact Distribution," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 11(12), pages 1-15, December.
    2. Luboš Smutka & Josef Abrhám, 2022. "The impact of the Russian import ban on EU agrarian exports," Agricultural Economics, Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences, vol. 68(2), pages 39-49.
    3. Nguyen, Trung Thanh & Do, Manh Hung, 2021. "Impact of economic sanctions and counter-sanctions on the Russian Federation’s trade," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 71(C), pages 267-278.
    4. Mikhail Krivko & Luboš Smutka, 2020. "Trade Sanctions and Agriculture Support in Milk and Dairy Industry: Case of Russia," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(24), pages 1-17, December.
    5. Loginova, Daria, 2022. "Assessing the Short-term Effect of Exchange Rate Liberalisation on Food Import Prices: The Regression Discontinuity in Time Employed for Russian Food Markets in 2014," Research on World Agricultural Economy, Nan Yang Academy of Sciences Pte Ltd (NASS), vol. 3(3), September.
    6. Jacob Wells & Peter Slade, 2021. "The effect of the Canada–China canola trade dispute on canola prices," Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, Canadian Agricultural Economics Society/Societe canadienne d'agroeconomie, vol. 69(1), pages 141-149, March.
    7. Jakub Horak, 2021. "Sanctions as a Catalyst for Russia’s and China’s Balance of Trade: Business Opportunity," JRFM, MDPI, vol. 14(1), pages 1-26, January.
    8. Daria Loginova & Judith Irek, 2022. "Russian meat price transmission and policy interventions in 2014," Agricultural and Food Economics, Springer;Italian Society of Agricultural Economics (SIDEA), vol. 10(1), pages 1-28, December.

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