Yoto V. Yotov

@yotoyotov.bsky.social

Professor of Economics, Drexel. Research Professor, ifo Institut. Senior Associate Editor, Economics Letters, Associate Editor, Review of Int'l Economics. Member of the CEA of Bulgaria 🇧🇬. Gravity rules 💪 https://yotoyotov.com/

The effects of complete trade sanctions on the targets’ trade with third countries are mostly positive. These effects may lead to a perverse scenario in which the targets' overall trade rises in the aftermath of sanctions. For details check 👇 ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...

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CESifo@cesifo.org · last mo.

🚨Working Paper Alert! "Perverse Trade Sanction Effects" ✍️ @gfelbermayr.bsky.social, Ohyun Kwon, Constantinos Syropoulos & @yotoyotov.bsky.social Insights into the direct and extraterritorial effects of complete trade #sanctions on #international trade. 🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...

“One continent, one market”: reliable disaggregated data and proven empirical methods confirm that EU membership has, on average, almost doubled trade between its members, which is much more than with third countries. Read our briefing note and stay tuned! shorturl.at/qeSA3 @yotoyotov.bsky.social

On the Impact and Resilience of the European Union - i-MIP

At an informal summit held at Alden Biesen Castle in Belgium on February 12, 2026, the heads of state and government of the European Union (EU) member countries relaunched the […]

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Muy contento de compartir el capítulo "Gravity for Undergrads" en español. Muchas gracias a los profesores Carril-Caccia y Paniagua ( @jordipaniagua.bsky.social ‬), que se ofrecieron voluntariamente a aportar este bien público al alumnado hispanohablante. 💪 ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...

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Yoto V. Yotov@yotoyotov.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Very grateful to Professors Carril-Caccia, Itakura, Kimata, Kwon, Paniagua (@jordipaniagua.bsky.social), Uchida, and Yu for volunteering to translate the “Gravity for Undergrads” Chapter into Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish. We hope this is useful to many students. ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...

很高兴和大家分享中文版的《写给大学生的贸易引力模型》!非常感谢權五顯 @Ekwonomist 和余淼杰教授的翻译工作,让更多中国学生受益。希望对大家有所帮助。引力万岁!💪 ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...

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Yoto V. Yotov@yotoyotov.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Very grateful to Professors Carril-Caccia, Itakura, Kimata, Kwon, Paniagua (@jordipaniagua.bsky.social), Uchida, and Yu for volunteering to translate the “Gravity for Undergrads” Chapter into Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish. We hope this is useful to many students. ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...

「学部生のための重力モデル」を日本語で共有できてとても嬉しく思います!こ の公共財を日本の学生のために提供してくれた板倉教授、木股君、内田教授に心 より感謝します。みなさんのお役に立てれば幸いです。重力モデル最高!💪 ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...

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Yoto V. Yotov@yotoyotov.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Very grateful to Professors Carril-Caccia, Itakura, Kimata, Kwon, Paniagua (@jordipaniagua.bsky.social), Uchida, and Yu for volunteering to translate the “Gravity for Undergrads” Chapter into Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish. We hope this is useful to many students. ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...

Good news on trade. Arne, Mario, Philipp and I construct a dataset on ‘trade specialists’. We find that the trade costs for the specialists are four times lower than for non-specialists. The corresponding welfare gain from globally efficient trade is 80%!

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