Regional organisations are increasingly powerful players on the global stages, accumulating authority that once belonged to sovereign states. However, Anja Jetschke and Samuel Standaert show that as these organisations grow, they distribute their power over different organs, creating checks and balances and increasing their organisational capacity
Associate Professor of International Economics, Department of Economics, Ghent University and United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS)
Samuel received his PhD from Ghent University and completed a Marie-Skłodowska Curie postdoctoral fellowship at Clemson University in South Carolina.
His research interests lie at the intersection of international trade, applied (Bayesian) econometrics, and regional integration.
He uses innovative statistical techniques to study, for example, the impact of trade and migration policy (Journal of Demographic Economics, 2024), regional integration agreements (European Economic Review, 2024), the spaghetti bowl (Review of International Economics, 2026), and post-colonial trade patterns (Economics Letters, 2026).
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