Shushanik Hakobyan
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Shushanik Hakobyan is a Senior Economist in the Multilateral Surveillance Division of the IMF Research Department. Prior to this role, she worked in the African and Strategy, Policy and Review Departments. Before joining the IMF, she was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Fordham University, Georgetown University, and Middlebury College. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Virginia. Her research interests include international trade policy, trade and labor markets, and preferential market access. Her research has appeared in peer-reviewed journals including the Review of Economics and Statistics and the Canadian Journal of Economics.
Email: SHAKOBYAN@imf.org
Personal WebPage: https://shakobyan.weebly.com/
Fluent In: Armenian, Russian.
IMF Books and Working Papers:
Bottlenecks to Private Sector Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Firm-Level Analysis, Working Paper No. 2025/188 , September 19, 2025
Divided We Fall: Differential Exposure to Geopolitical Fragmentation in Trade, Working Paper No. 2023/270 , December 22, 2023
Trade Integration in Africa: Unleashing the Continent's Potential in a Changing World, Departmental Paper No 2023/003 , May 5, 2023
Global Supply Chain Disruptions: Challenges for Inflation and Monetary Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa, Working Paper No. 2023/039 , February 24, 2023
Equitable Access to Vaccines: Myth or Reality?, Working Paper No. 2022/257 , December 16, 2022
Reserve Currencies in an Evolving International Monetary System, Departmental Paper No 2020/002 , November 17, 2020
