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Volha Baranava is a PhD candidate at Clemson University in South Carolina. She specializes in international trade, industrial organization and financial economics. She is currently doing research and teaching an undergraduate course of Principles of Macroeconomics at Clemson University. In her dissertation she works to apply the gravity equation to understand the effects of colonization on international trade (see the paper here).

Prior to starting her PhD at Clemson Volha had studied at CERGE-EI in Prague and researched the macroeconomic principals that drive growth in transitional economies. Her work resulted in a World Bank research grant in 2004.

She has experience working for the government at the Ministry of Statistics in Belarus, where she held a senior economist position at the International Trade department. She had also started a small business company that designed and exported handmade silk products from Ukraine.

Volha received a MA in Transitional Economics from CERGE-EI and BA in Finance and International Affairs from Belarussian State Economic University. She is fluent in English, Russian and Ukrainian and sometimes goes by the name Olga, which Americans seem to have an easier time pronouncing.