Vladimir Otrachshenko is a Senior Researcher in Environmental Economics at the Financial Stability Department of the National Bank of Slovakia. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Nova School of Business and Economics, Lisbon, Portugal (2013). Previously, he worked as a Research Fellow at the Center for
International Development and Environmental Research (ZEU) at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany; Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS Regensburg), Germany; Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal; and at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Italy. His research
focuses on climate change, the economic valuation of environmental goods, the role of environmental outcomes and policies in regional development and firm performance, and sustainable development. His research has been published in such journals as Climatic Change, Energy Policy, Environmental and Resource Economics, Ecological Economics, Land Economics, and the Journal of Public Economics, among others.