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 Paper 1 application to Ukrainian wartime economic reorganization. Russian-language source access supports the joint work on Ukrainian and Russian-language primary materials.
Research interests
- trade and effective distance
- spatial economics and externality networks
- applied labor under shocks
- Ukrainian and Russian-language economic statistics
Joint work with Ian
- Effective distance: a satellite-calibrated bilateral trade-cost panel, 2000-2024 (Paper 5). Working paper in preparation, target Journal of International Economics. Companion dataset (EffDist V2026) for CC-BY-4.0 Zenodo release.
- Occlusion and adaptation: Ukraine’s wartime economic reorganization, 2022-2025 (Joint Paper 1 of the Penumbra program). SSRN target October 2026; journal submission target February 2027 (JDE / AEJ: Applied).
- Trade in the Spotlight (2025) (SSRN 5202676). April 2025 preprint introducing the OVDL distance measure. Foundation for Paper 5.
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