People

I work with a small set of close collaborators and a rotating group of tutoring clients and students. The page here is for the long-term research partnerships.

Trade economist · geospatial analyst · instructor

Dr. Ian T. S. Helfrich

Trade economist working at the intersection of international trade, geospatial analysis, networks, and microeconomic theory. Primary research field: international trade. Secondary fields: geospatial e…

Co-author on Penumbra-program trade and trade-cost work

Dr. Elizaveta Gonchar

Frequent research co-author with Ian Helfrich. Joint work covers the Effective Distance bilateral trade-cost panel (Paper 5), the 2025 SSRN preprint Trade in the Spotlight (5202676), and the Joint Pap…