Philip Ushchev

Philip Ushchev is professor of economics at ULB and a research fellow at ECARES and CEPR. His main research areas are:

· economics of networks, with applications to peer effects in education and recycling, word-of-mouth and its impact on competition and entry barriers, political polarization, input-output linkages, and other issues;

· spatial economics, with applications to the analysis of the origin of cities and fundamental determinants of and city structure;

· demand systems analysis, with applications to gains from trade, firm selection and sorting, and the anatomy of market failures.

Prof. Ushchev’s research work has been published in top economic journals, such as Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Economic Theory and the Journal of Urban Economics. He also has consulting work experience, e.g. he was part of the ULB team on the “Study on Economic Impact of EU Sanctions” Contract, N° FISMA-2022-OP-0 (joint with Partizip GmbH).