LeBow’s Center for Global Policy Analysis Houses In-Depth Research on Trade Policy and Sanctions
With uncertainty and instability on the rise in the U.S. economy and globally, leaders and investors rely on economic experts and their insight into tariffs, sanctions and other policies with impact on trade globally.
Long recognized as a leading institution for the study of international trade, the LeBow College of Business has launched the Center for Global Policy Analysis as a major hub for these kinds of insights. The Center houses and promotes research on economic sanctions, international trade and other cross-boundary policies impacting nations and private businesses.
The establishment of the Center stems from the impactful research on the effects of trade policies and economic sanctions at the School of Economics and the creation and success of Global Sanctions Database (GSDB), a comprehensive dataset developed and maintained by faculty from Drexel’s School of Economics, the University of Applied Sciences Konstanz and the Austrian Institute for Economic Research. Widely used and cited by researchers, policy analysts and mainstream media, the GSDB will be maintained and distributed by the Center, extending into new areas and joined by additional databases and resources developed by the Center.
The Center partners with experts in political science, international relations and other areas on interdisciplinary research, hosts conferences and workshops on sanctions and international trade, and publishes a working-papers series that focuses on global policy analysis and impact. The Center also offers additional opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to partner with faculty on high-level research.
Yoto V. Yotov, PhD, professor of economics and one of the original developers of the Global Sanctions Database, will serve as inaugural director of the Center. He notes the School of Economics’ strong track record in research on the field of international trade, ranking in the top one percent of universities and other institutions according to their research impact.
“We are very excited about the opportunities to further develop and promote our expertise in trade, tariffs and sanctions through the new Center,” he says. “In addition to producing rigorous and relevant research and developing, maintaining and distributing the GSDB, we plan to build more databases and to develop a structural economic model that will enable us to analyze, both ex-ante and ex-post, the impact of various policies on the U.S. and the global economy.”
“By capitalizing on recent research and computational developments, we are confident that we will be able to provide such analysis for many countries and industries in near real time.”
Other faculty members from the School of Economics — Constantinos Syropoulos, PhD, Trustee Professor of Economics; Ohyun Kwon, PhD, assistant professor of economics; and Richard Barnett, PhD, clinical professor of economics — provide support and collaboration on the Center’s activities and programming.
With global trade in flux and the full effect of recent changes still to surface, the Center’s analysis and insights will deliver value to leaders, investors and researchers in a range of institutions worldwide.
“My colleagues and I are very grateful for the support from School of Economics and from other units within LeBow, and we look forward to developing more strong local, national and international partnerships,” Yotov adds.
