Laurent Pauwels received his Ph.D. in International Economics jointly from the Graduate Institute and the University of Geneva. His main areas of research include structural change in time series and panels, estimation and inference in discrete choice models, forecast combinations, economic crises and networks. His interests also include monetary policy and exchange rate issues in China and other economies. His research interests are in Applied Econometrics, Forecasting, International Macroeconomics, Global Value Chains, and Model Combination.
While the costs to the European Union (EU) as a whole of a variety of trade sanctions on Russia are small, there are big asymmetries. In particular, small European countries that were satellite economies of the Soviet Union suffer enormously more than large West European economies, sometimes by several orders of magnitude. That is the […]
