Welcome to my website!

I will join the Economics and Finance Department, Toulouse Business School (France) as an Assistant Professor in September 2025.

Before that, I was a postdoctoral researcher at TBS, and a postdoctoral fellow at CERGE-EI (a joint workplace of the Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic).

In January 2024, I earned my Ph.D. in Economics at CERGE-EI

In 2021-2023, I visited the Economics Department and Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance at Princeton University, USA; the Department of Banking and Finance at the University of Zurich, Switzerland; the Department of Accountancy, Finance, and Insurance at KU Leuven, Belgium.

I am an applied economist. My research is question-driven. I apply causal methods to understand how financial and geoeconomic shocks shape macroeconomic outcomes and how they propagate to the microeconomic level. I studied how sanctions affect the sanctioned economy as well as domestic banks, firms, and households. My current focus is household finance, housing markets, and wealth inequality.  

Research Interests: Household Finance, Housing Markets, International Finance, Applied Macroeconomics, Geoeconomics

You can find my CV here.

Updated draft (Aug. 25) "Back to School When Times are Bad? The Role of Housing Wealth"

Presentations and Updates:

Contacts: 

annapestova@gmail.com 

a.pestova@tbs-education.fr