Economics and politics of measures to

stop financing Russian aggression against Ukraine

by Eric Chaney, Christian Gollier, Thomas Philippon, Richard Portes

The financial and economic sanctions so far imposed on Russia to force it to end its invasion of Ukraine have not yet had the desired impact. Cutting off the financing of the Russian aggression is essential and requires immediately banning imports of Russian oil and taxing imports of Russian gas, while cushioning the shock of these measures on households, especially those with low incomes.

 

Despite being subject to financial sanctions, the Russian government remains supplied with foreign currency by sales of fossil fuels. In particular, European Union imports bring about 650 million euros every day to Russia. As French European Affairs Minister Clément Beaune has said, Europe is helping to fund the Russian war.

 

The disproportion of forces on the ground demands that further strong sanctions be reinforced immediately: implementing measures incrementally until 2023 may alleviate economic costs for Europe, but by then, Ukraine risks disappearing, despite her heroic resistance. This is why, in addition to the ten measures put forward by the International Energy Agency, we are proposing three measures to be enforced immediately by European Union members, in order to cut off the financing of the war of terror waged by Russia.[1]

 

1. Complete ban on Russian oil imports

Europe imports about 4mb/d from Russia. It is possible to do without it because there are significant capacity margins outside Russia. Without a supply and demand response, a fall in global oil supply equivalent to EU imports could raise the price per barrel, currently around $100, to as much as $175, according to a study by Goldman Sachs (Deutsche Bank estimate $140, if no alternative crude oil supplies emerge). Taking into account the drop in demand and the increase in supply outside Russia, however, the increase would be much more moderate. In some European countries, the embargo could cause difficulties that will have to be managed by European solidarity.

 

2. A tax on Russian gas imports, proceeds allocated to Ukrainians

Unlike oil, whose market is global, the gas market is local and supply is hardly substitutable in the short term. A total embargo on Russian gas imports is unrealistic in the short term, given the level of dependence of some countries. A temporary tax on Russian gas imports would reduce demand and the rents paid to Russian suppliers. At the horizon of next winter, demand would be reduced and non-Russian supply increased. Thus the price increase would not benefit Russian suppliers, whose income would be reduced.

The levy is amply justified by the massively negative financial externalities for Europe caused by the war, if only for the imperative welcoming of refugees. Its proceeds would be allocated exclusively to a solidarity fund with the Republic of Ukraine and Ukrainian refugees.

 

3. Cushion the shock on low incomes

The effects of the increase in oil, gas and therefore electricity prices are proportionally greater for low-incomehouseholds. Reducing fuel taxes would have the opposite effect to that intended, since it would not reduce demand and would keep Russian exporters' income intact. To maintain the price signal and the reduction in demand it entails without increasing social inequalities requires temporary fiscal transfers to low-income households.

 

Strongly reducing Russian fossil fuel imports is a political and moral necessity, but also an economic and ecological one. On the one hand, Russia has demonstrated that it is not a reliable supplier. On the other hand, the imperative of decarbonizing European economies requires drastically reducing dependence on fossil fuels. Now is the time to complement long-term policies with immediate action.



Eric Chaney, Economic Advisor, Institut Montaigne

Christian Gollier, Managing Director, Toulouse School of Economics and CEPR

Thomas Philippon, Professor, New York University and CEPR

Richard Portes, Professor, London Business School and CEPR

 

References

R. Bachmann, et al., ‘What if? The economic effects for Germany of a stop of energy imports from Russia’, ECONtribute Policy Brief No. 028, March 2022.

Ben McWilliams, et al., ‘Can Europe manage if Russian oil and coal are cut off?’, Bruegel, 17 March 2022.


[1] McWilliams et al. (2022) give extensive data on EU imports of oil and gas from Russia and conclude that ‘A stop to Russian oil and coal supplies would push Europe into a short and painful adjustment period. But if managed well, disruptions would remain temporary.’ Bachmann et al. (2022) estimate the economic impact on Germany of an immediate and full block on imports of oil and gas from Russia. They conclude ‘…the effects are likely to be substantial but manageable. In the short run, a stop of Russian energy imports would lead to a GDP decline in range between 0.5% and 3% (cf. the GDP decline in 2020 during the pandemic was 4.5%).’

This column was published by VOX-EU on 22 March 2022.

A French version was previously published by Le Monde on 15 March 2022

If you wish to endorse it, send your name, position and name of your institution to Eric Chaney elmchaney@gmail.com with "Stop financing the Russian aggression" in the subject line

List of initial signatories (15 March 2022):

Stefan Ambec, Professor, INRAE, Toulouse School of Economics

Gilbert Cette, Professor, Neoma Business School

Eric Chaney, Economic Advisor, Institut Montaigne

Thomas Chaney, Professor, University of Southern California and CEPR

Elie Cohen, Research Director, CNRS

Jacques Delpla, Director, Asterion

Charles Dennery, Economist

Jean-Michel Glachant, Professor and Director, Florence School of Regulation, EUI

Christian Gollier, Professor and Managing Director, Toulouse School of Economics and CEPR

Marc Ivaldi, Research Director, EHESS and TSE, and CEPR

Thomas Philippon, Professor, New York University and CEPR

Jean Pisani-Ferry, Professor, European University Institute and Sciences Po and CEPR

Richard Portes, Professor, London Business School and CEPR

Hélène Rey, Professor, London Business School and CEPR

Natacha Valla, Dean, Management and Innovation School, Sciences Po

Etienne Wasmer, Professor, New York University in Abu Dhabi and CEPR

Charles Wyplosz, Emeritus Professor, The Graduate Institute, Geneva, and CEPR

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Florian Hollenbach, Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School,

Miguel Urdanoz, Associate Professor, Toulouse Business School

Lidia Kosenkova, Assistant Professor, University of Virginia

Illia Pasichnichenko, Research Fellow, University of Bristol

Joe Lau, Associate Professor, The University of Hong Kong

Peter Zashev, Associate Professor, Stockholm School of Economics

Yoshiko M. Herrera, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Andis Sofianos, Postdoc Fellow, Alfred Weber Institute Heidelberg

Paul Novosad, Associate Professor, Dartmouth College

Petra Sinagl, Assistant Professor, University of Iowa

Diane Coyle, Professor, Bennett institute, University of Cambridge

Mishel Ghassibe, PhD Candidate, University of Oxford

Guy Meunier, Senior Research fellow, INRAE Paris Saclay

Christiane Schwieren, Professor, Heidelberg University

Martin Chick, Professor, University of Edinburgh

Daniel F. Stone, Associate Professor, Bowdoin College

Tiago Tavares, Assistant Professor, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

Pieter Gautier, Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam


Jeffrey Ely, Professor, Northwestern University

Jonathan Portes, Professor, King’s College London

Raghu Suryanarayanan, Co-Founder and Partner, Navega Strategies

Clément de Chaisemartin, Professor, Sciences Po

Richard S.J. Tol, Professor, University of Sussex and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Sascha O. Becker, Professor, Monash University, Melbourne

Luca Riva, PhD Candidate, Brown University

Sarah Clifford, Associate Professor, University of Oxford

Marcello Graziano , Associate Professor, Southern Connecticut State University

Filippo Rebessi, Assistant Professor, California State University

Foivos Savva, Lecturer in Economics, University of Southampton

Stephen Jarvis, Assistant Professor, London School of Economics

Maria Giavazzi, Associate Professor, École Normale Supérieure, Paris

Jaakko Meriläinen, Assistant Professor, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

Uffe Bergeton, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Vytautas Valaitis, Max-Weber Fellow, European University Institute

Frikk Nesje, Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen

Jeremy Edwards, Emeritus Reader, University of Cambridge

Yuki Takahashi, PhD Candidate, University of Bologna

Benjamin Crost, Associate Professor, University of Calgary

Emily Gallagher, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder

Ora Matushansky, Research Director, CNRS, Paris

Ian Bateman, Professor, University of Exeter Business School

Joerg Oechssler, Professor, University of Heidelberg

Gabriella Massenz, PhD candidate, Tilburg University

Moshe Hazan, Professor, Tel Aviv University

William Mullins, Assistant Professor, UC San Diego

Sheilagh Ogilvie, Professor, All Souls College, University of Oxford

Martin Huber, Professor, University of Fribourg

Andrea Mantovani, Associate Professor, Toulouse Business School

Kevin Berry, Associate Professor, University of Alaska 

Martien Lubberink, Associate professor, Victoria University Wellington

Arjun Sengupta, Assistant professor, University of Nottingham 

Alejandro Lopez-Lira, Assistant Professor, University of Florida

Alessandro Merli, Associate Fellow, Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe

Terry Barker, Honorary Professor, University of East Anglia

Jean-Marc Siroën, Emeritus Professor, Université Paris Dauphine

Romain Faquet, Economist

Lourdes Moreno, Associate Professor, Complutense University of Madrid

Jouko Ylä-Liedenpohja, Professor Emeritus, University of Tampere, Helsinki

Artur Doshchyn, Departmental Lecturer, University of Oxford

Arthur Small, Lecturer, University of Virginia

Christian Traxler, Professor, Hertie School

Lorenz Küng, Professor, University of Lugano

Christoph Vanberg, Professor, Heidelberg University

Anna Calamia, Associate Professor, Toulouse Business School

Matthieu Poumarède, Professor, Université Toulouse Capitole


Philipp Schirmer, PhD Candidate, University of Bonn

David Hugh-Jones, Associate Professor, University of East Anglia

Benjamin Spector, Research Director, CNRS and Institut Jean-Nicod CNRS-ENS-EHESS

Christa Brunnschweiler, Associate Professor, University of East Anglia

Daniel Heyen, Professor, University of Kaiserslautern

Matthijs Korevaar, Assistant Professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Massimo Morelli, Professor, Bocconi University

Eva Raiber, Assistant Professor, Aix-Marseille School of Economics and CEPR

Olivier De Groote, Assistant Professor, Toulouse School of Economics

Immanuel Feld, PhD Candidate, University of Warwick

Hannes Rau, Postdoc, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie

Christophe Maneuvrier, Professor, Université Caen Normandie

Annika Lindskog, Senior lecturer, University of Gothenburg

Oana Borcan, Associate Professor, University of East Anglia

Benjamin Haddad, Senior Director, Atlantic Council

Andrea Lassmann, Professor, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Moritz Lubczyk, PhD Candidate, University of Zurich

Jerome Massiani, Researcher, Università Milano Bicocca

Arnold Polanski, Associate Professor, University of East Anglia

Léa Nash, Professor, Université Paris 8

Paul Nightingale, Professor, University of Sussex Business School

Sonja Settele, Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen

Jens Dietrichson, Senior Researcher, The Danish Center for Social Science Research

Adelaide Duarte, Associate Professor (retired), University of Coimbra

Lilia Zhurakhovska, Assistant Professor, University of Duisburg-Essen

Philippe Jean-Pierre, Professor, University of La Réunion

Yvan Decreux, Economist, Federal Office for Agriculture, Switzerland

Vera Baye, PhD Candidate, Osnabrück University

Jakub Mistak, Stipendiary Fellow, University of Edinburgh

Martin Gaynor, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

Marloes Hagens, PhD Candidate, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Constantine Sorokin, Lecturer, Glasgow University

Joris Pinkse, Professor, Pennsylvania State University

Alessandra Casella, Professor, Columbia University

Béatrice Cherrier, Associate Professor, Ecole Polytechnique, CREST-CNRS

Fabien Candau, Professor, Université de Pau UPPA

Priit Jeenas, Assistant Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

José Crespo de Carvalho, Professor, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

Kristina Manysheva, PhD Candidate, Northwestern University

Anastassia Fedyk, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Guy Debailleul, Associate  Professor, Université Laval, Québec

Dana Kiku, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Łukasz Piątek, Assistant Professor, Warsaw University of Technology

Florin Bilbiie, Professor, University of Cambridge an CEPR

Argentina Marques, Financial Director, Nova School of Business and Economics 

Panu Poutvaara, Professor, University of Munich and ifo Institute

Olga Pindyuk, Economist, Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies


Susana Peralta, Associate Professor, Nova School of Business and Economics

Michele Boldrin, Professor, Washington University in Saint Louis

Juri Grossi, Postdoc Researcher, University of California, Merced

Danilo Guaitoli, Assistant Professor, New York University

Massimo Baldini, Professor, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia

Noura Maziak, PhD Candidate, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine

Jan Schymik, Postdoc, University of Mannheim

James B. Rebitzer, Professor, Boston University's Questrom School of Business

Jörg Breitung, Professor, University of Cologne

Daniel Neuhann, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin

Farzad Saidi, Professor, University of Bonn

Richard Parker, Senior Fellow and Lecturer, Harvard University

Ricardo Barahona, Research Economist, Bank of Spain

Alexander Michaelides, Professor, Imperial College London

Jakub Steiner, Associate Professor, Zurich University

Erik Brynjolfsson, Professor, Stanford University

James Bessen, Executive Director, Boston University School of Law

Matthew Holian, Professor, San Jose State University 

Bohdana Kurylo, PhD Candidate, CERGE-EI, Prague

Davit Adunts, Ph.D. candidate, CERGE-EI, Prague

Erik Hornung, Professor, University of Cologne

Christian Steininger, Global Head of Behavioral Economics, Allianz

David Zuchowski, PhD candidate, University of Duisburg-Essen

Daniel Harenberg, Lead Economist, Oxford Economics

Federico Gavazzoni, Associate Professor, BI Norwegian Business School 

Alexander Kriwoluzky, Professor, Freie Universität Berlin

Antti Ripatti, Professor, University of Helsinki

Stephanie Ettmeier, PhD Candidate, DIW Berlin

Philipp Denter, Associate Professor, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Anna Bindler, Associate Professor, University of Cologne

Alex Rehding, Professor, Harvard University

Nicholas Watson, Professor, Harvard University

Emanuel Hansen, Professor, University of Munich

Marco Celentani, Associate Professor, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Dimitri Migrow, Assistant Professor, School of Economics, University of Edimburgh