Vasily KOROVKIN (UPF-BSE)

Vasily KOROVKIN is Assistant Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) since 2023. Additionally, he is a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Prior to joining UPF-BSE, he was Assistant Professor at the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute (CERGE-EI) in Prague.

He is an applied microeconomist focusing on firms and firm linkages in developing and middle-income countries. He uses reduced-form and structural methods to understand how institutional frictions affect the interactions between the firms and firm linkages, and also developes new methods. His research areas are primarily development economics and political economy and also applied econometrics and trade. His 2-year project Military Conflicts, Sanctions, and International Trade: Evidence from Russia with Dzhamilya Nigmatulina was recently awarded a substantial grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation.

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Professor Korovkin will be visiting with us from February 12th to April 30th, 2024.