My research



In my research, I am open to any questions that can be addressed by input-output analysis. There are numerous such research questions, and my primary interest is how national economies are interconnected and interdependent via cross-border trade.

It is the 'power and elegance of multi-regional input-output analysis' (a quote from Joy Murray and Manfred Lenzen's Preface to the 2013 Sustainability practitioner's guide to multi-regional input-output analysis) that fascinates me. I am an entusiastic user of inter-country input-output tables that uniquely bring national accounts and international trade data into a coherent system and a wealthy source of information.

Although input-output analysis has undergone at least 70 years of development, I believe that it still has a significant untapped potential. I am proud to have a humble contribution to developing new applications of this powerful and elegant tool, including new measurements of accumulated trade costs in global value chains and an input-output-based method to estimate trade creation and trade diversion.

As I do my research only when I have vacant time out of office, my papers are not numerous. In the following pages you can see:

  • the list of my publications, including peer-reviewed articles and conference papers,

  • the list of international conferences, workshops and similar events where I presented my papers.

As some of my research projects yielded large arrays of results, and only a tiny part of those was made available in publications, I thought that interactive visualisations may help explore the unpublished results in new, creative ways. With this in mind, I began learning the D3 JavaScript library that itself is a powerful data visualisation tool. Hence another page: