Petar V. Stankov
I am a teaching-focused lecturer of Economics at Royal Holloway, University of London. I have published on the political economy of populism, economic growth, economic freedom reforms, and the variety of reform outcomes across countries. I have taught Economics of the EU, Institutional Economics, Monetary Economics, and Evaluation Economics. I am a Senior Fellow of the HEA, UK (SFHEA) and a Graduate Teaching Fellow of the CERGE-EI Foundation, US. My Ph.D. is from CERGE-EI in Prague.
Biography
I have joined RHUL Economics Department in 2018. I was at the University of National and World Economy before that, trying to change how Economics is being taught in Eastern Europe.Education
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Ph.D. Economics, CERGE-EI Prague, 2014
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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Political economy of populism; Economic freedom reforms and welfare; Teaching Economics
Websites
Books
Articles
Business Reform Outcomes: Why So Different?
Published: Jan 11, 2019 by Journal of Policy Modeling
Authors: Petar Stankov, Aleksandar Vasilev
Subjects:
Economics, Finance, Business & Industry
Post-crisis policy making focuses on doing business reforms. The effects of those reforms will be different across countries. To understand why, we advance a novel firm-size distribution (FSDs) argument. At the centre of the argument is the fact that FSDs are different across countries and stable over time. Then, if a given doing business reform induces firms of different size to grow differently, this will produce a variety of reform outcomes across countries.
Deregulation, Economic Growth and Growth Acceleration
Published: Jan 12, 2018 by Journal of Economic Development
Authors: Petar Stankov
Subjects:
Economics, Finance, Business & Industry
The paper studies the effects of credit-, labour-, and product market deregulation policies on economic growth in more than 70 economies over a period of 40 years. Deregulation contributed to the income levels of the early and consistent reformers relatively more than to the ones of the late reformers. The paper also finds a significant growth acceleration effect from market-oriented reforms over shorter periods of time. However, the growth acceleration effects dissipate over longer periods.
The Political Economy of Populism: An Empirical Investigation
Published: Jan 06, 2018 by Comparative Economic Studies
Authors: Petar Stankov
Subjects:
Economics, Finance, Business & Industry
Macro-shocks affect the demand for populism. I expand electoral data on left- and right-wing populism and link them with macroeconomic shocks. Negative shocks consistently predict a surge in populist votes, even in the presence of inherent populist cycles. Shocks also affect election outcomes of left-wing and right-wing populists differently. Finally, European and Latin American voters are different, yet converging, in their post-crisis preferences for populism.