I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics and Business at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and an Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE). Additionally, I am a Research Affiliate at CEPR International Trade and Regional Economics, and Development Economics groups and a Member of Preventing Conflict: Policies for Peace RPN.
I received my Ph.D. in Economics from UCLA Anderson School of Management in 2018.
I am an applied microeconomist focusing on firms and firm linkages in developing and middle-income countries. I use reduced-form and structural methods to understand how institutional frictions affect the interactions between the firms and firm linkages, and I also develop new methods.
My research areas are Development Economics and Political Economy, as well as Applied Econometrics and International Trade.
email: vasily.korovkin@upf.edu
Published, Accepted, Forthcoming Papers
Supply Chain Disruptions and Reorganization: Theory and Evidence from Ukraine’s War, [Journal link], [SSRN], [CEPR], with Alexey Makarin and Yuhei Miyauchi, forthcoming at Review of Economic Studies
Conflict and Inter-Group Trade: Evidence from the 2014 Russia-Ukraine Crisis, [SSRN version], [Journal link], [Online Appendix], with Alexey Makarin, American Economic Review, January 2023, 113(1), Pages 34-70. Media coverage: Project Syndicate, Exame (Brazil), Contrafactual (Chile), Forbes.ru (Russia), Jain Family Institute Newsletter, AEA Featured Chart
Field Experiment Estimate of Electoral Fraud in Russian Parliamentary Elections, [Journal link], with Ruben Enikolopov, Maria Petrova, Konstantin Sonin, and Alexey Zakharov, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013, 110(2): 448-452. Media coverage: BBC Russia, News at Princeton, Nada es Gratis
"Revise & Resubmit's"
Threat of Sanctions, with Konstantin Egorov, Alexey Makarin, and Dzhamilya Nigmatulina, R&R at Journal of International Economics
On Policy Evaluation with Aggregate Time-Series Shocks, [CEPR version], [ArXiV], with Dmitry Arkhangelsky, R&R at Quantitative Economics
Working Papers and Selected Work in Progress
Export Sanctions: Rerouting, Disruption, and the Reach of Economic Warfare, [SSRN], [CEPR], with Konstantin Egorov, Alexey Makarin, and Dzhamilya Nigmatulina, new version!
War and Nation-Building: Evidence from Ukraine, with Serhii Abramenko, Alexey Makarin, and Moses Shayo, new draft!
Production Networks and War: Evidence from Ukraine, [SSRN version], [CEPR DP #16759], with Alexey Makarin
Detecting Auctioneer Corruption: Evidence from Russian Procurement Auctions, [most recent slides -- updated version], with Pasha Andreyanov and Alec Davidson
Agriculture and Industrialization: Evidence from India, with Paola Giuliano, Bishnupriya Gupta, and Nico Voigtlaender, slides available upon request
Church and Political Persuasion in Russia, with Oksana Kuznetsova and Andrey Simonov
Papers and Proceedings
Trade Sanctions Against Russia: Stylized Facts, [SSRN], [Journal link], with Konstantin Egorov, Alexey Makarin, and Dzhamilya Nigmatulina, AEA Papers & Proceedings, May 2025, 115, Pages 578-582
Social Media as an Identity Barometer: Evidence From the Russia-Ukraine War, [SSRN], [Journal link], with Serhii Abramenko and Alexey Makarin, AEA Papers & Proceedings, May 2024, 114, Pages 70-74.