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Andrei Kirilenko

Andrei Kirilenko is a professor of Finance at the Cambridge Judge Business School. Prior to joining Cambridge, he was a professor at Imperial and MIT. Before MIT, Kirilenko served as chief economist of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) where he used modern analytical tools and methods to design and enforce an effective regulatory regime of financial markets post-global financial crisis. Prior to the CFTC, Kirilenko served for 12 years at the International Monetary Fund, working on monetary and financial matters around the world. Professor Kirilenko's scholarly work has appeared in top peer-reviewed journals and received multiple best paper awards. Kirilenko received his PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania with a specialization in Finance from the Wharton School.

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Trains and freight wagons stand on railway tracks at Lviv Railway Station in Lviv, Ukraine, on Jan. 18, 2022.

Rethinking Ukraine's economy

by Andrei Kirilenko
What kind of an economy does Ukraine have? This question is not of abstract interest. International financial institutions, supporting governments, private investors — anyone with an economic interest in Ukraine needs to know what they have a stake in. Without having a realistic macroeconomic framework, it's hard to make sense of various economic indicators — like real gross domestic product (GDP) growth, inflation, investment, money demand, imports, exports, and capital flows — they remain is