Dr. Vytautas Kuokštis
Associate professor
Department
Department of International Relations
Center of European Studies
Public Administration and Policy Analysis Center
Research groups
Research group in political economy
Research areas
Political Economy
Research
Quantitative Causal Analysis of Defense Spending Among NATO Allies: A Comprehensive Investigation into Free Riding Phenomenon
Understanding FinTech Regulatory Sandbox Development in Europe (FIRSA)
The Hidden Costs of Corruption: Examining its Impact on Socio-Economic Inequality in Within and Between-country Dimensions
Labor Market Institutions and the Political Economy of Exchange Rates
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vytautas.kuokstis@tspmi.vu.lt
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Vytautas is Associate professor at the Institute.
Vytautas obtained his PhD from Vilnius University in 2013. He holds an MA in Comparative Politics from Vilnius University and BSc in Economics and Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga (SSE Riga).
In 2020, Vytautas held the position of J.P. Kazickas Associate research scholar at Yale University. In 2016-17, he was visiting Fulbright scholar at Harvard University. In addition, Vytautas has had research stays at University of Zurich, University College London, Central European University, European University Institute, Bristol University, and Tallinn Technical University.
Courses taught
Master's Colloquium
Bachelor's Colloquium
International Economics
Fundamentals of Economics
Research interests
Comparative political economy
International political economy
Publications
2022: „How Institutions Moderated the Pandemic’s Economic Impact in EU Member States” (co-authored with Ringailė Kuokštytė), JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies.
2022: „Labor market flexibility and exchange rate regimes” (co-authored with Muhammad Asali and Simonas Algirdas Spurga), European Journal of Political. Economy, published online.
2021: „Determinants of Defence Spending: a TSCS Analysis of EU Member States“ (bendraautorės Ringailė Kuokštytė ir Ieva Miklaševskaja), European Security, 30 (2), 197-217.
2021: „Retrospective voting in Central and Eastern Europe: Hyper-accountability, corruption or socio-economic inequality?“ (bendraautoriai Mažvydas Jastramskis ir Matas Baltrukevičius), Party Politics, 27 (4), 667-679.
2018: „Explaining National Preferences on the New European Banking Policy Framework: The Case of Lithuania“ (together with Marius Skuodis), Journal of Baltic Studies 49 (3), 351-369. https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2018.1451351
2018: „Fiscal Policy Learning from Crisis: Comparative Analysis of the Baltic Countries“ (together with Ringa Raudla, Rainer Kattel, Aleksandrs Cepilovs), Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice 20 (3), 288-303. https://doi.org/10.1080/13876988.2016.1244947
