Yoto V. Yotov
@yotoyotov.bsky.social
Professor of Economics, Drexel. Research Professor, ifo Institut. Senior Associate Editor, Economics Letters, Associate Editor, Review of Int'l Economics. Member of the CEA of Bulgaria 🇧🇬. Gravity rules 💪 https://yotoyotov.com/
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Yoto V. Yotov
@yotoyotov.bsky.social
· Apr 17
🚨 GRAVITY for UNDERGRADS🚨
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 & R. I hope it is useful. Gravity rules 💪
yotoyotov.com/Gravity_Unde...
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 & R. I hope it is useful. Gravity rules 💪
yotoyotov.com/Gravity_Unde...
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Our paper "Should we stay or should we go?" has been nominated for the ONS People’s Choice Award!
Shall we win it or shall we lose? Totally up to you - but here’s the link to vote 😉
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Shall we win it or shall we lose? Totally up to you - but here’s the link to vote 😉
forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Microsoft Forms
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October 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Our paper "Should we stay or should we go?" has been nominated for the ONS People’s Choice Award!
Shall we win it or shall we lose? Totally up to you - but here’s the link to vote 😉
forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Shall we win it or shall we lose? Totally up to you - but here’s the link to vote 😉
forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Muy contento de compartir el capítulo "Gravity for Undergrads" en español. Muchas gracias a los profesores Carril-Caccia y Paniagua (
@jordipaniagua.bsky.social
), que se ofrecieron voluntariamente a aportar este bien público al alumnado hispanohablante. 💪
ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
@jordipaniagua.bsky.social
), que se ofrecieron voluntariamente a aportar este bien público al alumnado hispanohablante. 💪
ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
October 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Muy contento de compartir el capítulo "Gravity for Undergrads" en español. Muchas gracias a los profesores Carril-Caccia y Paniagua (
@jordipaniagua.bsky.social
), que se ofrecieron voluntariamente a aportar este bien público al alumnado hispanohablante. 💪
ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
@jordipaniagua.bsky.social
), que se ofrecieron voluntariamente a aportar este bien público al alumnado hispanohablante. 💪
ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
很高兴和大家分享中文版的《写给大学生的贸易引力模型》！非常感谢權五顯
@Ekwonomist
和余淼杰教授的翻译工作，让更多中国学生受益。希望对大家有所帮助。引力万岁！💪
ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
@Ekwonomist
和余淼杰教授的翻译工作，让更多中国学生受益。希望对大家有所帮助。引力万岁！💪
ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
October 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
很高兴和大家分享中文版的《写给大学生的贸易引力模型》！非常感谢權五顯
@Ekwonomist
和余淼杰教授的翻译工作，让更多中国学生受益。希望对大家有所帮助。引力万岁！💪
ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
@Ekwonomist
和余淼杰教授的翻译工作，让更多中国学生受益。希望对大家有所帮助。引力万岁！💪
ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
「学部生のための重力モデル」を日本語で共有できてとても嬉しく思います！こ
の公共財を日本の学生のために提供してくれた板倉教授、木股君、内田教授に心
より感謝します。みなさんのお役に立てれば幸いです。重力モデル最高！💪
ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
の公共財を日本の学生のために提供してくれた板倉教授、木股君、内田教授に心
より感謝します。みなさんのお役に立てれば幸いです。重力モデル最高！💪
ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
October 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
「学部生のための重力モデル」を日本語で共有できてとても嬉しく思います！こ
の公共財を日本の学生のために提供してくれた板倉教授、木股君、内田教授に心
より感謝します。みなさんのお役に立てれば幸いです。重力モデル最高！💪
ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
の公共財を日本の学生のために提供してくれた板倉教授、木股君、内田教授に心
より感謝します。みなさんのお役に立てれば幸いです。重力モデル最高！💪
ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
Very grateful to Professors Carril-Caccia, Itakura, Kimata, Kwon, Paniagua (@jordipaniagua.bsky.social), Uchida, and Yu for volunteering to translate the “Gravity for Undergrads” Chapter into Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish. We hope this is useful to many students.
ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
October 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Very grateful to Professors Carril-Caccia, Itakura, Kimata, Kwon, Paniagua (@jordipaniagua.bsky.social), Uchida, and Yu for volunteering to translate the “Gravity for Undergrads” Chapter into Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish. We hope this is useful to many students.
ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
If you teach an undergrad international trade course and want some hands-on experience with real data & Stata or R, consider my “Gravity for Undergrads” Chapter. It may be useful in econometrics, undergrad seminars, and undergrad theses. Gravity Rules 💪
yotoyotov.com/Gravity_Unde...
yotoyotov.com/Gravity_Unde...
September 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
If you teach an undergrad international trade course and want some hands-on experience with real data & Stata or R, consider my “Gravity for Undergrads” Chapter. It may be useful in econometrics, undergrad seminars, and undergrad theses. Gravity Rules 💪
yotoyotov.com/Gravity_Unde...
yotoyotov.com/Gravity_Unde...
Reposted by Yoto V. Yotov
Contento de compartir la siguiente guía en español para la estimación de modelos de gravedad elaborada por @yotoyotov.bsky.social y traducida por @jordipaniagua.bsky.social y yo.
La guía se puede descargar aquí: ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
Los datos y código aquí: yotoyotov.com/Gravity_Unde...
La guía se puede descargar aquí: ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
Los datos y código aquí: yotoyotov.com/Gravity_Unde...
Gravity for Undergrads
La ecuación de gravedad es el modelo de referencia en el comercio internacional y la herramienta más utilizada para el análisis de políticas comerciales. No obstante, a pesar de sus sólidas bases teór
ideas.repec.org
September 5, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Contento de compartir la siguiente guía en español para la estimación de modelos de gravedad elaborada por @yotoyotov.bsky.social y traducida por @jordipaniagua.bsky.social y yo.
La guía se puede descargar aquí: ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
Los datos y código aquí: yotoyotov.com/Gravity_Unde...
La guía se puede descargar aquí: ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
Los datos y código aquí: yotoyotov.com/Gravity_Unde...
🇪🇸🇪🇸 Muy contento de compartir el capítulo "Gravity for Undergrads" en español. Muchas gracias a los profesores Carril-Caccia y Paniagua (@jordipaniagua.bsky.social), que se ofrecieron voluntariamente a aportar este bien público al alumnado hispanohablante. 🙏💪 🇪🇸
ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
August 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
🇪🇸🇪🇸 Muy contento de compartir el capítulo "Gravity for Undergrads" en español. Muchas gracias a los profesores Carril-Caccia y Paniagua (@jordipaniagua.bsky.social), que se ofrecieron voluntariamente a aportar este bien público al alumnado hispanohablante. 🙏💪 🇪🇸
ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
Arne, Fernando, and I are happy to share the updated version of the “jwdid” command for heterogeneity-robust estimations with non-linear outcomes and high-dimensional fixed effects, along with the corresponding paper. We hope it is useful.
ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
August 21, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Arne, Fernando, and I are happy to share the updated version of the “jwdid” command for heterogeneity-robust estimations with non-linear outcomes and high-dimensional fixed effects, along with the corresponding paper. We hope it is useful.
ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
Happy to see our survey on #sanctions with
@gfelbermayr.bsky.social, Cliff Morgan, and Costas Syropoulos published at the Annual Review of Economics.
go.shr.lc/3Rtj9dP
@gfelbermayr.bsky.social, Cliff Morgan, and Costas Syropoulos published at the Annual Review of Economics.
go.shr.lc/3Rtj9dP
August 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Happy to see our survey on #sanctions with
@gfelbermayr.bsky.social, Cliff Morgan, and Costas Syropoulos published at the Annual Review of Economics.
go.shr.lc/3Rtj9dP
@gfelbermayr.bsky.social, Cliff Morgan, and Costas Syropoulos published at the Annual Review of Economics.
go.shr.lc/3Rtj9dP
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So looking forward to our Global Ecoonomic Networks Workshop next week at Lake Como!
The exciting program is now availbale via:
sites.google.com/site/peterep...
The exciting program is now availbale via:
sites.google.com/site/peterep...
Peter Eppinger - GEN Workshop
I am co-organizing the annual Global Economic Networks (GEN) Workshop series.
The aim of the GEN Workshops is to bring together scholars interested in international trade, multinational firms, and glo...
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July 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
So looking forward to our Global Ecoonomic Networks Workshop next week at Lake Como!
The exciting program is now availbale via:
sites.google.com/site/peterep...
The exciting program is now availbale via:
sites.google.com/site/peterep...
Good news on trade. Arne, Mario, Philipp and I construct a dataset on ‘trade specialists’. We find that the trade costs for the specialists are four times lower than for non-specialists. The corresponding welfare gain from globally efficient trade is 80%!
July 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Good news on trade. Arne, Mario, Philipp and I construct a dataset on ‘trade specialists’. We find that the trade costs for the specialists are four times lower than for non-specialists. The corresponding welfare gain from globally efficient trade is 80%!
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@kevinhorourke.bsky.social & Roger Vicquery introduce a new index of global exchange rate fixity and find that global anchoring to the US dollar fell sharply after 1971, and global exchange rate fixity is now only about one-third of the Bretton Woods level.
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky
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#EconSky
June 27, 2025 at 8:20 AM
@kevinhorourke.bsky.social & Roger Vicquery introduce a new index of global exchange rate fixity and find that global anchoring to the US dollar fell sharply after 1971, and global exchange rate fixity is now only about one-third of the Bretton Woods level.
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky
📢NEW DATA! Happy to share the new release of the International Trade and Production Database for Estimation - ITPD-E-R03. Thanks to my co-authors Mario Larch & Serge Shikher and to the USITC!
For details: ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
Enjoy the data and have a great summer!
For details: ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
Enjoy the data and have a great summer!
June 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
📢NEW DATA! Happy to share the new release of the International Trade and Production Database for Estimation - ITPD-E-R03. Thanks to my co-authors Mario Larch & Serge Shikher and to the USITC!
For details: ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
Enjoy the data and have a great summer!
For details: ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
Enjoy the data and have a great summer!
Reposted by Yoto V. Yotov
Sloppy headline. Of course, they were down in April -- because they were WAY up in March ahead of the (potential?) tariffs. It even goes on to say "However when compared with April 2024, goods exports were still up by €2.5 billion." Sorry to spoil your story with your OWN story.
June 17, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Sloppy headline. Of course, they were down in April -- because they were WAY up in March ahead of the (potential?) tariffs. It even goes on to say "However when compared with April 2024, goods exports were still up by €2.5 billion." Sorry to spoil your story with your OWN story.
Using a new data on international and domestic languages, we argue that having a uniform language within a country leads to significant welfare gains, however, the gains from bilingualism are even lerger.
Enforcing a single language without supporting bilingualism risks fragmenting the very markets such policies aim to unify. Economic gains arise not from linguistic uniformity, but from enabling shared fluency.
T Gurevitch, P Herman, @yotoyotov.bsky.social, F Toubal
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky
T Gurevitch, P Herman, @yotoyotov.bsky.social, F Toubal
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky
June 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Using a new data on international and domestic languages, we argue that having a uniform language within a country leads to significant welfare gains, however, the gains from bilingualism are even lerger.
Thanks for all your valuable service to the profession!
RePEc has no staff, thus we rely on volunteers and some self-help by users: publishers index their works, authors maintain their online profile, so that volunteers can take care of the rest. Thanks for doing your part.
repec.org
#RePEc #EconSky
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#RePEc #EconSky
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
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research, including working papers, articles and software code
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June 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Thanks for all your valuable service to the profession!
Reposted by Yoto V. Yotov
RePEc has no staff, thus we rely on volunteers and some self-help by users: publishers index their works, authors maintain their online profile, so that volunteers can take care of the rest. Thanks for doing your part.
repec.org
#RePEc #EconSky
repec.org
#RePEc #EconSky
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
RePEc is a central index of economics
research, including working papers, articles and software code
repec.org
June 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
It was an honor and a great pleasure!
Great and fun keynote by @yotoyotov.bsky.social on gravity and sanctions in the 27th Applied Economics Meeting
June 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
It was an honor and a great pleasure!
Javier Flórez (@pseud0safari.bsky.social), Mario Larch, Sebastien Bradley, and I are very happy share the update of the most disaggregated dataset of consistently constructed international and domestic trade flows -- GRANTPA.
So, let’s estimate GRAVITY with GRANTPA.
ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
So, let’s estimate GRAVITY with GRANTPA.
ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
May 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Javier Flórez (@pseud0safari.bsky.social), Mario Larch, Sebastien Bradley, and I are very happy share the update of the most disaggregated dataset of consistently constructed international and domestic trade flows -- GRANTPA.
So, let’s estimate GRAVITY with GRANTPA.
ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
So, let’s estimate GRAVITY with GRANTPA.
ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
🚨🚨Good news for the EU! The great Lionel Fontagné & I propose new measures of the potential of trade blocs. An EU application shows that the EU has been very successful, but only half of the potential gains from the EU have been realized to date.👇
ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
@ec.europa.eu
ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
@ec.europa.eu
May 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
🚨🚨Good news for the EU! The great Lionel Fontagné & I propose new measures of the potential of trade blocs. An EU application shows that the EU has been very successful, but only half of the potential gains from the EU have been realized to date.👇
ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
@ec.europa.eu
ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
@ec.europa.eu
Two sad news for science this weekend:
1. The (allegedly) fraudulent paper by the MIT student 👇
thebsdetector.substack.com/p/ai-materia...
2. And the revelation that one can buy citations at Google Scholar 👇
arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607
On the bright side ... I am going fishing
1. The (allegedly) fraudulent paper by the MIT student 👇
thebsdetector.substack.com/p/ai-materia...
2. And the revelation that one can buy citations at Google Scholar 👇
arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607
On the bright side ... I am going fishing
May 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Two sad news for science this weekend:
1. The (allegedly) fraudulent paper by the MIT student 👇
thebsdetector.substack.com/p/ai-materia...
2. And the revelation that one can buy citations at Google Scholar 👇
arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607
On the bright side ... I am going fishing
1. The (allegedly) fraudulent paper by the MIT student 👇
thebsdetector.substack.com/p/ai-materia...
2. And the revelation that one can buy citations at Google Scholar 👇
arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607
On the bright side ... I am going fishing
Despite the current challenges and prior doubts regarding the ability of GATT/WTO to promote international trade, the evidence from our meta-analysis is that the WTO/GATT effects on trade have been positive and significant. Happy 30th anniversary & thanks, GATT/WTO!
ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
May 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Despite the current challenges and prior doubts regarding the ability of GATT/WTO to promote international trade, the evidence from our meta-analysis is that the WTO/GATT effects on trade have been positive and significant. Happy 30th anniversary & thanks, GATT/WTO!
ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...
🚨 GRAVITY for UNDERGRADS🚨
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 & R. I hope it is useful. Gravity rules 💪
yotoyotov.com/Gravity_Unde...
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 & R. I hope it is useful. Gravity rules 💪
yotoyotov.com/Gravity_Unde...
April 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
🚨 GRAVITY for UNDERGRADS🚨
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 & R. I hope it is useful. Gravity rules 💪
yotoyotov.com/Gravity_Unde...
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 & R. I hope it is useful. Gravity rules 💪
yotoyotov.com/Gravity_Unde...
🚨NEW COURSE🚨 Want to learn how to quantify the partial and general equilibrium effects of trade and other policies (e.g., tariffs, sanctions)? If so, consider taking my course on trade policy analysis with structural gravity. For more information visit: yotoyotov.com/gravity.html
April 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
🚨NEW COURSE🚨 Want to learn how to quantify the partial and general equilibrium effects of trade and other policies (e.g., tariffs, sanctions)? If so, consider taking my course on trade policy analysis with structural gravity. For more information visit: yotoyotov.com/gravity.html