About Beata Javorcik

Beata Javorcik, Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College.

Dr Javorcik is an international trade economist interested mainly in empirical work on policy-relevant questions. Her research program focuses on identifying the policies through which developing countries can use international integration to facilitate their economic growth. Her research examines the determinants and consequences of inflows of foreign direct investment, the implications of services liberalization for productivity growth, and ways of combating the evasion of import tariffs. She also investigated links between exporting and firm performance and strategies multi-product firms use to compete in international markets. In her research, she used data from many Eastern European countries, Mexico, China, India and Indonesia

Currently, Beata Javorcik holds a position of Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and 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. The Office of the Chief Economist is also responsible for macroeconomic forecasting and contributes to the work of the Bank’s Risk Management in building scenarios for identifying and navigating emergent risks and conducting stress testing, as well as assisting regional economists with timely cross-country macroeconomic analysis and economic forecasting

Dr Javorcik is a member of the Royal Economic Society’s Executive Committee and a Director of the International Trade Programme at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London.

Before taking up her position at Oxford University, she worked at the World Bank in Washington DC, where she focused on research, lending operations and policy advice.

Her research has been published in the American Economic Review, Journal of the European Economic Association, Review of Economics and Statistics, European Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of International Economics and Journal of Development Economics.