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Hylke Vandenbussche

Hylke Vandenbussche is a Professor in International Economics in the Department of Economics of the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) in Belgium where she currently acts as vice-dean of Research of the Faculty of Economics and Business at Leuven. Previously, she was the holder of the Chair Jacquemin at the University of Louvain-la-neuve (UCLouvain) in Belgium where she was affiliated to the CORE research centre.

She started her career as an assistant professor at Cambridge University in the UK and held visiting professorships at Dartmouth College in the US. She held research positions in Tilburg, Warwick and the London School of Economics (LSE) during and after her Ph.D. Her research interests lie in firm-level trade and the role of supply and demand determinants of exports, input-output linkages, global value chains and its interaction with trade policy.

She is research fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London and a of CES-IFO of the University of Münich. She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Midwest International Meetings and the European Trade Study Group (ETSG). She is affiliated to the research department of the National Bank of Belgium (NBB). 


Fields: International Trade, Economics, Trade Policy 

Contact: Full Professor International Economics, University of Leuven (KULeuven), Department of Economics, Naamsestraat 69, 3000 Leuven Belgium T: +32 16/32.69.20; hylke.vandenbussche@kuleuven.be  


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