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.
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
Trade Sanctions Against Russia: Stylized Facts, [SSRN] , with Konstantin Egorov, Alexey Makarin, and Dzhamilya Nigmatulina, AEA Papers & Proceedings, forthcoming
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.
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
Working Papers and In-Progress
Supply Chain Disruptions and Reorganization: Theory and Evidence from Ukraine’s War, [PDF], [SSRN], with Alexey Makarin and Yuhei Miyauchi
On Policy Evaluation with Aggregate Time-Series Shocks, [CEPR version], with Dmitry Arkhangelsky
Production Networks and War: Evidence from Ukraine, [SSRN version], CEPR DP #16759, with Alexey Makarin
Detecting Auctioneer Corruption: Evidence from Russian Procurement Auctions, [more recent slides], with Pasha Andreyanov and Alec Davidson
Agriculture and Industrialization: Evidence from India, with Paola Giuliano, Bishnupriya Gupta, and Nico Voigtlaender, slides available upon request
Conflict and Nation-Building: The Case of the 2014 Russia-Ukraine War, with Serhii Abramenko and Alexey Makarin, slides available upon request
Trade Sanctions, with Konstantin Egorov, Alexey Makarin, and Dzhamilya Nigmatulina