What Economists Really Do - Pressure Points: How Sanctions Reshape Trade, Finance, and Firm Behaviour
What secrets about sanctions evasion are hidden in trade data? Who fears secondary sanctions – and who shrugs them off? And why has Russia’s pivot toward the Chinese renminbi accelerated so dramatically under Western restrictions? This talk explores these questions in the context of the unprecedented sanctions imposed on Russia after its 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Date: 26 February 2026, 14:00
Venue: Online
Speaker: Beata Javorcik (University of Oxford)
Organising department: Department of Economics
Organiser contact email address: events@economics.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/department-of-economics-university-of-oxford/t-qmjvyrx
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Luke Weir