Kalina Manova is an American and Bulgarian professor of economics and deputy head of department at University College London. She is the winner of the 2016 Philip Leverhulme Prize.[1] She also part of the council of the European Economic Association.[2] She is on the editorial board of the Review of Economic Studies.[3]

Career

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Manova obtained her bachelor, master and PhD in economics at Harvard University. After her PhD, she was visiting assistant professor at the Princeton University in 2009-10. She then moved to Stanford as an assistant professor from 2007 to 2016. After Stanford, she was named associate professor at the University of Oxford from 2015 to 2017.

She has been a member of the NBER since 2016 and CEPR since 2015.[4] She is an associate at the LSE Centre for Economic Performance.[5]

Research

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Her research focus is on international trade and investment. Her research analyses international frictions in financial trade. Her most cited paper in the Review of Economic studies shows how financial market imperfections restricts international trade.[6][7] The constraints come from the difficulty for exporter to access external capital.

She also specialises in firm productivity, looking at management practices among other things. Part of her research also looks at global value chains and firm production networks. She has won a 1.4 million euro ERC grant to look at the fragmentation of production across firms and countries.[8]

She has published research in the Quarterly Journal of Economics,[9] Journal of Political Economy[10] and Review of Economic Studies.[7] Her research has been cited in El Pais.[11] She is the 155 most cited female economist according to RePEc.[12]

She won the Kiel Institute's Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs prize,[13] the 2016 Philip Leverhulme Prize[1] and a Hoover Institution National Fellowship.[14]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Grant listings | The Leverhulme Trust". www.leverhulme.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-08-14.
  2. ^ "Council | EEA". www.eeassoc.org. Retrieved 2022-08-14.
  3. ^ "Editorial Board | The Review of Economic Studies". www.restud.com. Retrieved 2022-08-14.
  4. ^ "Kalina Manova". NBER. Retrieved 2022-08-14.
  5. ^ "CEP| People | Kalina Manova". Centre for Economic Performance, CEP, London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 2022-08-14.
  6. ^ "Kalina Manova". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-08-14.
  7. ^ a b "Credit Constraints, Heterogeneous Firms, and International Trade". academic.oup.com. Retrieved 2022-08-14.
  8. ^ "ERC grant - 10.3030/724880". doi:10.3030/724880. Retrieved 14 August 2022. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  9. ^ "Export Prices Across Firms and Destinations". academic.oup.com. Retrieved 2022-08-14.
  10. ^ Bernard, Andrew B.; Dhyne, Emmanuel; Magerman, Glenn; Manova, Kalina; Moxnes, Andreas (2022-07-01). "The Origins of Firm Heterogeneity: A Production Network Approach". Journal of Political Economy. 130 (7): 1765–1804. doi:10.1086/719759. hdl:10419/207742. ISSN 0022-3808. S2CID 22146906.
  11. ^ Miguel, Rafa de (2022-04-26). "El Brexit redujo en un 25% las importaciones británicas de productos de la UE". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-08-14.
  12. ^ "Top Female Economists Rankings | IDEAS/RePEc". ideas.repec.org. Retrieved 2022-08-14.
  13. ^ "List of Previous Prize Winners". www.ifw-kiel.de. Retrieved 2022-08-14.
  14. ^ "Kalina Manova". Hoover Institution. Retrieved 2022-08-14.
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