Dr Banu Demir Pakel
Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics
About
Dr Banu Demir Pakel is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford, and a Tutorial Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford.
Her research explores international trade, firm dynamics and environmental economics, focusing on trade policy, productivity and sustainability using micro-level data. She is a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London and CESifo (Munich).
Previously, Dr Demir Pakel was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Princeton (2016–2017) and a Visiting Fellow at LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance (2022). She earned her DPhil from Oxford in 2012.
Expertise
- Economics
- International trade
- Trade and climate change
- Trade and development
Selected publications
- Trading around Geopolitics (2025)
- Plastic Turkey: International Impacts of China's Waste Import Ban (2024)
- Financial Constraints and Propagation of Shocks in Production Networks (2024)
- O-Ring Production Networks (2024)
- International Trade and Letters of Credit: A Double-Edged Sword in Times of Crises (2022)
- Road capacity, domestic trade and regional outcomes (2021)
Languages
English