Andris Strazds is a senior economist at Nordea Bank Finland Plc. Previously, he worked as a manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers leading market studies, strategic advisory, valuation and due diligence assignments for corporate and public sector clients in Central and Eastern Europe.
For more than ten years now, Andris has also been a part-time faculty member at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, where he has taught Managerial Economics, Business Valuation and Strategy, International Finance and Macroeconomics in the undergraduate, Executive MBA and various non-degree executive education programs. From December 2008 to July 2011, Andris was a member of the Commission of Strategic Analysis Under the Auspices of the President of Latvia.
He has an MSc degree in International Economics and Business from the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden. Besides his native Latvian, Andris is fluent in English, German and Russian, has intermediate level knowledge of French and is a passionate traveller. His favourite authors are Paulo Coelho and Haruki Murakami, and he is a fan of Shakira.
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Recent Blog Posts by Andris Strazds
- Air Traffic Control and Negative Airports
- Population Dynamics in the New EU Member States: It’s All About Relative Income Levels
- The Overdue U.S. Immigration Reform
- Will the Boom in U.S. Energy Production Bring Back Manufacturing Jobs?
- Another Look at Ricardian Equivalence: The Case of the European Union
- Does US Fiscal Policy Stabilize or Destabilize the Economy?
- Is this Time Different for the US?
- A Reinsurance Approach to the Single Resolution Mechanism
- The U.S. Is Sliding Down an Investment Slope
- This Time Might Indeed Be Different For World Trade
- A Hippocratic Oath for Bank Regulators: Do No Harm
- Can The Fed Kill Two Birds With One Stone?
- The Evolving Euro
- What Do Central Banks Do Best?
- How Fast Is the Boat to China?
- How Fast Is the Boat to China?
- The Elephant in the Room in the EU Competitiveness Debate
- The Elephant in the Room in the EU Competitiveness Debate
- Is ECB’s Refusal to Go Beyond its Mandate a Policy Failure?
- Is ECB’s Refusal to Go Beyond its Mandate a Policy Failure?
- Is Germany Übercompetitive and Should it Accept Higher Inflation?
- Is Germany Übercompetitive and Should it Accept Higher Inflation?
- Applying the Modigliani – Miller Theorem of Capital Structure to Governments: Why ‘Blue Bonds’ Are Not the Silver Bullet to Kill the Eurozone Debt Crisis
- Applying the Modigliani – Miller Theorem of Capital Structure to Governments: Why ‘Blue Bonds’ Are Not the Silver Bullet to Kill the Eurozone Debt Crisis
- Regaining Competitiveness While Maintaining a Currency Peg – the Case of Latvia
- Regaining Competitiveness While Maintaining a Currency Peg – the Case of Latvia
