Povilas Lastauskas

Povilas Lastauskas  University of Cambridge Personal website

Povilas was a Cambridge don, and acted as Director of Studies in Economics. He graduated with an MPhil and PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge, and was a member of Trinity College. In addition, he holds diplomas from Vilnius University, the University of Amsterdam, and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Povilas’ research interests span theory and empirics. He is mainly interested in international and labour economics, as well as spatial econometrics, panel data methods, and global macroeconomic modelling. The unifying theme of his work concerns economic interdependencies and heterogeneous responses to various shocks. Most recently, Povilas has been working on policy evaluation using time series and panel data setups.

Periods of visit: August–September 2015, January–April 2016

Working paper: Global perspective on structural labour market reforms in Europe