Alexander Plekhanov

Alexander Plekhanov is a Director for Transition Impact and Global Economics at the EBRD Office of the Chief Economist.

He edits EBRD’s annual economic report, the Transition Report, and Regional Economic Prospects. He has worked on global macroeconomic issues as well as a country economist on a number of countries, including Belarus, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Russia.

Prior to joining the Bank, Alexander worked as an economist at the International Monetary Fund.

Education

2006 – Ph.D. in Economics, University of Cambridge

Research interests

• Fiscal policy, fiscal decentralisation
• Commodity-based development and economic diversification
• International trade and investment

Recent working papers

Fisman, Raymond, Tea Gamtkitsulashvil, Sergei Guriev, Carolin Ioramashvili and Alexander Plekhanov, 2021, “Corruption and Firm Growth: Evidence from around the World”, EBRD Working Paper 255.

Gamtkitsulashvili, Tea, Alexander Plekhanov and Alexander Stepanov, 2021, “Killing two birds with one stone? Sound investment with social impact”, EBRD Working Paper 253.

Plekhanov, Alexander, and Morten Stostad, 2018, “Modern growth in perspective: Growth outperformance since the global financial crisis”, EBRD Working Paper 214.

Balgova, Maria, Alexander Plekhanov and Marta Skrzypinska, 2017, “Reducing non-performing loans: Stylized facts and economic impact”, paper presented at the American Economic Association meetings.

Georgiev, Yordan, Piroska Nagy-Mohacsi and Alexander Plekhanov, 2017, “Structural reform and productivity growth in Emerging Europe and Central Asia”, Asian Development Bank working paper 523.

Gelebo, Emil, Alexander Plekhanov and Florent Silve, 2015, “Determinants of frontier innovation and technology adoption: cross-country evidence”, EBRD Working Paper 173.