2021/12/01 by Teemu Makkonen, Makkonen, Teemu, Timo Mitze +1
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Environmental Science · Social Sciences · #Economic Sanctions and International Relations #Environmental and Biological Research in Conflict Zones #FOS: Economics and business #General Economics (econ.GN) #Russia and Soviet political economy
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2112.00564
openalex publication_date 2021/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We address the question how sensitive international knowledge flows respond to geo-political conflicts taking the politico-economic tensions between EU-Russia since the Ukraine crisis 2014 as case study. We base our econometric analysis on comprehensive data covering more than 500 million scientific publications and 8 million international co-publications between 1995 and 2018. Our findings indicate that the imposition of EU sanctions and Russian counter-sanctions from 2014 onwards has significant negative effects on bilateral international scientific co-publication rates between EU countries and Russia. Depending on the chosen control group and sectors considered, effect size ranges from 15% to 70%. Effects are also observed to grow over time.