Comments by Krislert Samphantharak,  on Can Russia Survive Economic Sanctions?
Journal: Asian Economic Papers
Year: 2017

Krislert Samphantharak: This paper provides a quantitative analysis of the impacts on Russia if the country were multilaterally sanctioned and forced into autarky. The authors present an overlapping generation model and calibrate it to compute the impacts under various scenarios of the sanction. What is insightful about this paper is that it sheds light on the heterogeneous impacts on different generations of the Russian population. For example, in the most benign sanction environment, the model