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Biography

Dr Dzhamilya (Jamila) Nigmatulina is an economist interested in Geoeconomics, Economic Development, and Urban Economics. She completed her PhD at the LSE in 2021 and joined HEC Lausanne as an Assistant Professor of Economics in 2022. She is an Associate in the Urban and Trade Programmes.

Current areas of research include:

International Trade and Geoeconomics
Development Economics
Urban Economics

Publications

Blog

What impact have trade sanctions had on Russia? (Podcast)

Recorded at the CEPR Paris Symposium. How effective have the trade sanctions imposed on Russia in 2022 been? Politically, they were comprehensive and quick. But anecdotal reporting has suggested that Russian firms that w... Read more...

Dzhamilya Nigmatulina

17 January 2025

Blog

Flight from Russia

In addition to the human tragedy in Ukraine, Russia's invasion has led to a series of economic, social, and political events in Russia itself. This column uses outgoing flight prices before and after the invasion on 24 F... Read more...

Antonio Avila-Uribe and Dzhamilya Nigmatulina

06 February 2023

CEP discussion papers

Sanctions and misallocation. How sanctioned firms won and Russia lost

Using a unique natural experiment of staggered firm-level sanctions against Russia in 2014-2020 and the data on over 600,000 Russian firms, I estimate the effect of "smart" sanctions on targeted firms and on the aggregat... Read more...

Dzhamilya Nigmatulina

23 November 2022

Blog

How US sanctions increased the economic activity of sanctioned Russian firms

Dzhamilya Nigmatulina assesses the impact of sanctions following the 2014 annexation of Crimea on Russian sanctioned firms. The capital, materials inputs, and revenue of sanctioned firms actually increased relative to no... Read more...

Dzhamilya Nigmatulina

19 November 2022

Journal article

Planning ahead for better beighborhoods: long-run evidence from Tanzania

Africa?s demand for urban housing is soaring, even as it faces a proliferation of slums. In this setting, can modest infrastructure investments in greenfield areas where people subsequently build their own houses facilit... Read more...

Neeraj Baruah, Amanda Dahlstrand, Guy Michaels, Dzhamilya Nigmatulina, Ferdinand Rauch and Tanner Regan

01 July 2021

Journal article

Measuring urban economic density

At the heart of urban economics are agglomeration economies, which drive the existence and extent of cities. This paper estimates urban agglomeration effects, exploring simple and very nuanced measures of economic densit... Read more...

J. Vernon Henderson, Sebastian Kriticos and Dzhamilya Nigmatulina

14 August 2019

CEP discussion papers

Measuring urban economic density

At the heart of urban economics are agglomeration economies, which drive the existence and extent of cities and are also central to structural transformation and the urbanization process. This paper evaluates the use of ... Read more...

J. Vernon Henderson, Sebastian Kriticos and Dzhamilya Nigmatulina

06 September 2018

SERC Discussion Papers

Planning Ahead for Better Neighborhoods: Long Run Evidence from Tanzania

What are the long run consequences of planning and providing basic infrastructure in neighborhoods, where people build their own homes? We study "Sites and Services" projects implemented in seven Tanzanian cities during ... Read more...

Neeraj Baruah, Amanda Dahlstrand, Guy Michaels, Dzhamilya Nigmatulina, Ferdinand Rauch and Tanner Regan

27 September 2017