Brixiova, Zuzana

Zuzana Brixiova is Principal Research Economist in the Research Division of the Development Research Department (EDRE). Formerly Senior Economist at the IMF, she has over ten years of operational experience on low and middle income countries in Africa, Central Asia and Eastern Europe, including as the IMF Resident Representative in Belarus and Lithuania. As Senior Economist and the Head of the Estonia and the Czech Republic desk in the Country Studies branch of the OECD’s Economics Department in 2008/09, she was one of the principal authors of the first OECD Economic Survey of Estonia.

During 2007/08 she was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Addis Ababa (2007/08) where she guided several M.A. theses in macroeconomics. She holds Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota and B.A. in Finance from the Prague University of Economics.

Current research interests: Labor Markets, Macroeconomics, SMEs and Private Sector Development in Emerging Market and Low Income Countries; Regional Economic Integration.

Selected publications

Zuzana Brixiova, Laura Vartia and Andreas Wörgötter (2010) “Capital Flows and the Boom Bust Cycle: The Case of Estonia,” Forthcoming, Economic Systems, Special Issue on Future of Capitalism: Is It Failing? Volume 34(1).

Louis Kasekende, Zuzana Brixiova, and Léonce Ndikumana (2010) “Africa: Africa’s Counter-cyclical Responses to the Crisis,” Journal of Globalization and Development, Volume 1(1).

Zuzana Brixiova, Wenli Li and Tarik Yousef (2009) “Skill Shortages and Labor Market Outcomes in Central Europe, Economic Systems, Volume 33, Issue 1 (March).

Zuzana Brixiova and Vera Volchok (2005), “Labor Markets in Belarus,” Problems of Economic Transition, Special Issue on Trends, Reforms and Challenges in Belarus, Volume 48, Issue 1 (May).
Zuzana Brixiova, Edward Gemayel and Mona Said (2003) “Can Fiscal Decentralization Contribute to Poverty Reduction in Low Income Countries?” Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies, Volume 5 (September).

Zuzana Brixiova and Tarik Yousef (2000) “Labor Market Adjustment in Transition Economies with On-the-job Search”, Economics Letters, Volume 67(20).

Zuzana Brixiova and Nobuhiro Kiyotaki (1997) “Private Sector Development in Transition Economies”, Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, Volume 46(1).