Beata Javorcik is Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), on leave from the University of Oxford, where she holds a Statutory Professorship in Economics (the first woman to do so) and is a Fellow of All Souls College. She is a Director of the International Trade Programme at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). 

Before taking up her position at Oxford University, she worked at the World Bank in Washington DC, where she focused on research, lending operations and policy advice.

Beata Javorcik is specialised in international trade. Her research interests focus on the determinants and consequences of inflows of foreign direct investment, the implications of services liberalisation, the evaluation of investment promotion programmes, the propagation of shock through production networks and the evasion of import duties. Her research has been published in the American Economic Review, Journal of the European Economic Association, Review of Economics and Statistics, European Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of International Economics and Journal of Development Economics.

Beata Javorcik's website

She will present a paper, joint with Alessia Lo Turco, Daniela Maggioni, and Gianluca Santoni, at our first Paris Trade Seminar of the year on the topic:

Foreign Ownership and Occupational Safety: Evidence from France (read abstract, PDF 45 KB)

The next Paris Trade Seminar will host Meredith STARTZ (Dartmouth), on September 23rd.