I am a Professor at the School of Economics of the LeBow College of
Business at Drexel University (Philadelphia, USA), a Research
Professor at the ifo Institute (LMU, Munich, Germany), and a member of
the Council for Economic Analysis (CEA) of Bulgaria. My professional interests
are in the areas of international trade, trade policy, and sanctions,
with an emphasis on structural gravity modeling, estimation, and simulation. I find
teaching very rewarding and I enjoy every bit of it, except for
grading. On this web site, you can find information about my research,
teaching, and advising
& consulting activities, as well as about my "Gravity
with Gravitas for Autism" initiative. I can be reached at yotov@drexel.edu.
February, 2025. The GSDB team -- Aleksandra, Costas, Edral, Gabriel, Heider, Ohyun, and I -- are very happy to release the new version of the Global Sanctions Database (GSDB), which includes 1,547 sanction cases, over the period 1950-2023. For further details, please check "The Global Sanctions Data Base - Release 4: The Heterogeneous Effects of the Sanctions on Russia".
January, 2025. After years in the making, I am happy to share a new guide for gravity estimations -- "Estimating Gravity Equations: Theory Implications, Econometric Developments, and Practical Recommendations" -- with Mario Larch and Serge Shikher. Some of our recommendations are motivated by trade theory, however, most of them should be useful more broadly, e.g., to analyze migration, FDI, cross-border patent flows, etc.