Yoto V. Yotov

An Advanced Guide to Trade Policy Analysis: The Structural Gravity Model

This is the title of a book written by Yoto Valentinov Yotov and his co-authors, and co-published by the United Nations and the WTO. He is also the author of the CESifo Working Paper (10367), together with Mario Larch: “Estimating the Effects of Trade Agreements: Lessons from 60 Years of Methods and Data.”

Mr. Yotov’s main research interests are in international trade, and his best-known scholarly contributions are related to modeling and estimation with the gravity model of trade and quantifying the effects of trade and trade policy on various economic outcomes. As his most important contribution to the literature, he views his efforts to promote the theory-consistent use of domestic trade flows for gravity estimations. 

Mr. Yotov has developed a research agenda on sanctions, and also has papers on foreign direct investment, growth and political economy. His work has been published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of International Economics (JIE), the Economic Journal, the European Economic Review (EER), and the International Economic Review. He is an Associate Editor at The Review of International Economics and at Economics Letters, and a Guest Editor for a Special Issue (“Gravity at Sixty”) at the EER. He was also a Guest Editor for a Special Issue on “Economics Sanctions” at the EER.

Yoto Valentinov Yotov is Professor of Economics at Drexel University, Philadelphia, and a Research Professor and at the ifo Institute. He received a Bachelor of International Economic Relations from the “D.A. Tsenov” Academy of Economics (Bulgaria), and BA and BS degrees in Economics from Truman State University (Kirksville, Missouri). He completed a Master of Science (2004) and a PhD, with an award for best dissertation, from Boston College (2007). Mr. Yotov is a CESifo Research Network Fellow.