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Dimitrije Ruzic

Associate Professor of Economics

Dimitrije Ruzic

Dimitrije Ruzic is Associate Professor of Economics at INSEAD and Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).

His research spans macroeconomics and international trade. He works to understand how differences across firms shape macroeconomic outcomes. His recent work has appeared in the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Economic Literature, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Journal of the European Economic Association.

At INSEAD he teaches macroeconomics to MBA, Executive MBA, and executive education participants. For his efforts to make the global economic environment accessible to diverse audiences, he was named among the Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors by Poets & Quants and among 30 emerging thinkers to watch by Thinkers50. INSEAD MBA students have voted him Best Teacher of a core course, and he has been awarded the Dean's Commendation for Excellence in MBA Teaching multiple times.

He holds economics degrees from Harvard, the London School of Economics, and the University of Michigan. If you cannot find him in his office, please look around the Fontainebleau forest—he might be bouldering.

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Mega Companies: Superstars or Super Villains?

Dimitrije Ruzic

South Korea’s experience shows that big is not necessarily bad.

Economics & Finance

How Trade Made the Richest 0.1% Even Richer

Dimitrije Ruzic

Better access to foreign markets benefited exporting firms’ top executives disproportionately more than rank-and-file workers.

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How the Volkswagen Scandal Turned ‘Made in Germany’ Into a Liability

Dimitrije Ruzic

Firms that leverage a collective reputation for marketing purposes should never lose sight of the fact that one bad apple can spoil the barrel.
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