Biography
Aksel Erbahar is Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam and a research fellow at the Tinbergen Institute. His research lies at the intersection of international trade and political economy, with a focus on trade policy. He is particularly interested in how trade barriers shape global value chains and how lobbying and geopolitical shocks influence trade dynamics. He is a co-author of the World Bank’s Temporary Trade Barriers Database.
Aksel previously worked as a consultant at the World Bank and for the UK Trade Remedies Authority, and served as a Visiting Fellow at the Asian Development Bank. At Erasmus School of Economics, he teaches courses in international trade policy and firms in international trade at both undergraduate and graduate levels. More information is available on his personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/akselerbahar/.
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Work
- Zhiyuan Chen, Aksel Erbahar & Yuan Zi (2025) - Made and created in China: The role of processing trade - Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 127 (2), 390-426 - doi: 10.1111/sjoe.12571 - [link]
- Aksel Erbahar & Ömer Tarık Gençosmanoğlu (2023) - Migrants and imports: Evidence from Dutch firms - Economica, 90 (360), 1204-1228 - doi: 10.1111/ecca.12486 - [link]
- Aksel Erbahar & Vincent Rebeyrol (2023) - Trade Intermediation by Producers - Journal of International Economics, 140 - doi: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2022.103693 - [link]
- Chad P. Bown, Aksel Erbahar & Maurizio Zanardi (2021) - Global Value Chains and the Removal of Trade Protection - European Economic Review, 140 - doi: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2021.103937 - [link]
- Aksel Erbahar (2019) - Two Worlds Apart? Export Demand Shocks and Domestic Sales - Review of World Economics, 156, 313-342 - doi: 10.1007/s10290-019-00364-z - [link]
- Aksel Erbahar (2019) - Market Knowledge: Evidence from Importers - The World Economy, 42 (4), 1-42 - doi: 10.1111/twec.12750 - [link]
- Aksel Erbahar & Y Zi (2017) - Cascading Trade Protection: Evidence from the US - Journal of International Economics, 108, 274-299 - doi: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2017.06.006 - [link]
- L Puccio & Aksel Erbahar (2016) - Circumvention of Anti-dumping: A Law and Economics Analysis of Proportionality in EU Rules - Journal of World Trade, 50 (3), 391-416 - [link]
International Economics
- Level
- Master
- Year Level
- Master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- TIF10001
International Trade and Trade Policy
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FEB13085