What Economists Really Do - Pressure Points: How Sanctions Reshape Trade, Finance, and Firm Behaviour

What secrets about sanctions evasion are hidden in trade data? Who fears secondary sanctions - and who shrugs them off? And why has Russia’s pivot toward the Chinese renminbi accelerated so dramatically under Western restrictions? This talk explores these questions in the context of the unprecedented sanctions imposed on Russia after its 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
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Mikhail Korneev

Mikhail is a researcher specialising in the comparative political economy of participatory and deliberative democratic instruments, with a regional focus on the European Union, Germany, and Russia. His doctoral research uses quantitative causal inference methods to examine the effects of democratic innovations on the accountability, responsiveness, and efficiency of local government institutions.

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