Biography

Ingo Borchert joined the Economics Department at Sussex as a Lecturer in January 2012.  He has been an Economist at the World Bank from 2008-2011, where he helped construct the global Services Policy Restrictions Database.  His research interests focus on trade in services and the impact of regulatory measures in major services sectors on market structure and performance in developing countries. He has also studied services trade flows during the recent financial crisis, as well as North-South trade flows and the effects of preferential market access for developing countries. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics and Finance from the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland, where he has also taught development economics.

Role

Lecturer in Economics

International trade and development, with particular focus on the international integration of services markets and the effects of trade policy on investment patterns and trade flows of both goods and services.

Spring term 2011/2012: MSc Economics - International Economics 2 (810L1)

Student Consultation

Spring term 2012/2013 (TB2): Friday 10-12am, Jubilee Building Room 261.

Summer term 2012/2013: Thursday 10-12am, Jubilee Building Room 261.

Alternative times available upon request, please send me an email.

Borchert, Ingo (2013) [Review] J. Bradford Jensen (2011) Global trade in services: fear, facts, and offshoring. World Trade Review, 12 (1). pp. 114-117. ISSN 1474-7456

Borchert, Ingo, Gootiiz, Batshur and Mattoo, Aaditya (2013) Policy barriers to international trade in services: evidence from a new database. World Bank Economic Review. ISSN 0258-6770 (In Press)

Borchert, Ingo, Gootiiz, Batshur and Mattoo, Aaditya (2012) Services Trade Restrictions Database. [Dataset]

Borchert, Ingo, Gootiiz, Batshur and Mattoo, Aaditya (2011) Services in Doha: what's on the table? In: Unfinished Business? The WTO's Doha Agenda. CEPR and World Bank, London, pp. 115-143. ISBN 9781907142451

Borchert, Ingo and Mattoo, Aaditya (2010) The crisis-resilience of services trade. Service Industries Journal, 30 (13). pp. 2115-2136. ISSN 0264-2069

Borchert, Ingo and Mattoo, Aaditya (2009) Is the crisis provoking protection in services? In: Effective Crisis Response and Openness: Implications for the Trading System. Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, pp. 345-362. ISBN 9781907142017

Borchert, Ingo (2009) Trade diversion under selective preferential market access. Canadian Journal of Economics, 42 (4). pp. 1390-1410. ISSN 0008-4085