Dr. Simonas Algirdas Spurga
Assistant professor
Department
Center of Political Economy
Research areas
Political economy
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saspurga@gmail.com
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Dr. Simonas Algirdas Spurga is a researcher and lecturer at the Institute. On 3 February 2026, he defended his dissertation “The Political Economy of Labor Market Institutions, Exchange Rate Regimes and Growth” at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science. The dissertation examines the interaction between labor market institutions and exchange rate regimes, including its effects on economic growth, external balances and the formation of national growth models.
In 2023–24, he was a visiting researcher at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
In 2017, he graduated with an MSc in Political Science and Political Economy (with Distinction) from the London School of Economics (LSE), and in 2015, with a BA in Political Science (Diploma Cum Laude) from IIRPS VU.
He has published in the European Journal of Political Economy, Comparative Economic Studies, Competition & Change and PLOS ONE.
From 2021 to 2023, he worked at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the United States. He currently works at the Bank of Lithuania, in the Economics Department.
Courses taught
International Economics
Research interests
Comparative political economy
International economy
The effect of institutions on economic growth
Growth models
Varieties of capitalism
Publications
Spurga, Simonas Algirdas. 2025. "The Baltic growth model: Balanced growth under the EMU playbook" Competition & Change, https://doi.org/10.1177/10245294251333203.
Kuokštis, Vytautas and Simonas Algirdas Spurga. 2025. "The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Regimes and External (Im)Balances: The Role of Labor Market Institutions" Comparative Economic Studies, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41294-025-00255-3.
Kuokštis, Vytautas, Muhammad Asali, Simonas Algirdas Spurga. 2025. "How labor market institutions influence the relationship between exchange rate regimes and economic growth" PLoS One, 20(9): e0332492. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0332492.
Kuokštis, Vytautas, Muhammad Asali, Simonas Algirdas Spurga. 2022. "Labor market flexibility and exchange rate regimes" European Journal of Political Economy, Vol 75, 102205, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2022.102205.
Spurga, Simonas Algirdas. 2022. "A new perspective on the diversity of capitalism" European Political Science. Vol 21(2), pp. 332 – 334. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-021-00352-8.
Spurga, Simonas Algirdas and Emilė Šreiberytė. 2021. "Joint Debt Arrangements in EMU: From NextGenEU to Eurobonds" Bank of Lithuania Occasional paper series, ISSN 2424-3213. https://www.lb.lt/en/publications/joint-debt-arrangements-in-emu-from-nextgeneu-to-eurobonds
