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Golvine de Rochambeau

  • PhD researcher
  • Columbia University

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Golvine de Rochambeau is a PhD candidate in the department of economics at Columbia University. Her research interests are in the fields of development, industrial organization and trade. She has several on-going projects in Liberia where she conducts fieldwork. In particular, she studies intra-national trade costs and tries to understand why they are so high in this region. Before coming to Columbia, Golvine received her MSc in Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique in France.

Projects

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Create a dataset of LC records and customs trade for trade-based money laundering pattern analysis

Nasiruddin Ahmed, Julia Cajal Grossi, Golvine de Rochambeau, Rocco Macchiavello, Aminul Aman, Farhad Alam Bhuiyan 31 Mar 2026
Project
Westlands District Nairobi, Kenya

Subjective Beliefs, Collaboration, and Innovation among Women Microentrepreneurs: Survey and Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Golvine de Rochambeau
Project

The role of intra-national trade costs in market integration: Evidence from Liberia

Golvine de Rochambeau, Jonas Hjort 31 May 2017
Project

All contributions

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Monitoring and intrinsic motivation: Evidence from Liberia’s trucking firms

Golvine de Rochambeau
Working paper
Toyota DA truck in South Africa. Photo credit: Bob Adams via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Five key challenges facing Liberia’s transport industry: Paving the way to market integration

Golvine de Rochambeau
Blog

Intra-national trade costs and economic isolation

Golvine de Rochambeau, Jonas Hjort
Blog

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