Trade insurance matters more in times of uncertainty
Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic and the global financial crisis.
Beata Javorcik
Beata Javorcik is Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Professor of Economics at Oxford.
As the EBRD’s Chief Economist, Beata Javorcik is responsible for advising the President and other senior members of the Bank’s management team on economic issues of strategic or operational relevance to the EBRD regions. Javorcik is on leave from the University of Oxford, where she holds a Statutory Professorship in Economics (the first woman in this position) and is a Fellow of All Souls College. She is a Director of the International Trade Programme at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale and a B.A. in Economics (Summa cum Laude) from the University of Rochester. Before taking up her position at Oxford University, she worked at the World Bank in Washington DC, where she focussed on research, lending operations and policy advice.
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Trade insurance matters more in times of uncertainty