Yoto V. Yotov

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.

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Very happy to share “Gravity for Undergrads” - a Chapter, designed to introduce the gravity model to undergrads and novices in trade. It comes with data and code in Stata and R. I hope it is useful to colleagues and students. More information about the Chapter can be found HERE.

By popular demand, I have decided to offer an onlibe version of my "Trade Policy Analysis with the Structural Gravity Model" course. If you want to learn how to quantify the partial and general equilibrium effects of trade and other policies (e.g., tariffs, sanctions, etc) on trade and welfare, fill this APPLICATION FORM. More information about the course can be found HERE.

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.