Updated April 2010
Date of Birth: October 21, 1971
Family status: Married, two children
Citizenship: Russia
Professor of Economics and Rector
New
Economic School, Moscow
teaching, research, advising students, outreach
activities
President,
Center
for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR) at the New Economic School, Moscow
Research Affilliate, Centre for Economic Policy Research, London.
contract theory, labor mobility, corporate governance, political economy
| 2002 | Russian Academy of Science | Degree: | Doctor of Science in Economics (habilitation) |
| Thesis: | Mathematical Models of a Demonetized Economy | ||
1993 - 1994 | Russian Academy of Science, Postgraduate Studies | Degree: | Ph.D in Physics and Mathematics |
| Thesis: | Models of Savings and Investments | ||
| 1988 - 1993 | Moscow Institute
of Physics and Technology, Department of Management and Applied Mathematics (6 year program) | Degree: | Master of Science Summa Cum Laude |
| Major: | Economics and Computer Science |
| 2003 - 2004 | Visiting Assistant Professor
of Economics (2003-04), Department of Economics, Princeton University teaching development economics, microeconomics, advising undergraduate thesis |
| 1998 - 2000 | Economist, Russian-European
Center for Economic Policy, policy-related research: internal labor markets and financial-industrial groups |
| 1997 - 1998 | Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1993 - 1998 | Senior Research Fellow
(since 1997), Department of Mathematical Modeling of Economic Systems, Computing Center of Russian Academy of Science |
| 1994 - 1997 | Associate Professor and
Chair of the Department of Economics, International College, Moscow State University |
| 1995 - 1997 | Researcher
and Program Manager for Russia, TACIS Action for Cooperation in Economics, Project T94-1072-R "The impact of differing labor standards on the international trade in the New Independent States and European Union" |
| 1993 - 1995 | Lecturer and Module Leader,
Management Information Systems, M.B.A. program, Russian-British Business School, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology |
Determinants of Expropriation in the Oil Sector: A Theory and Evidence from Panel Data (with Anton Kolotilin and Konstantin Sonin) Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Spring 2011, 27(1).
Interest Group Politics in a Federation (with Evgeny Yakovlev and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya) Forthcoming , Journal of Public Economics.
Media
Freedom in Dictatorships (with Georgy Egorov and Konstantin Sonin)
Imperfect competition in financial market and capital structure (with Dmitriy Kvasov), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, October 2009, 72(1), pp. 131-146.
Dictators and Oligarchs (with Konstantin Sonin) Journal of Public Economics, February 2009, 93(1-2), 1-13. [lead article]
(Un)Happiness in Transition (with Ekaterina Zhuravskaya), Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2009, 23(2), 143-168.
Railroad
Restructuring in Russia and Central and Eastern Europe: One Solution for All Problems? (with Guido Friebel, Russell Pittman, Elizaveta Shevyakhova, Anna Tomova.) Transport Reviews, May 2007 .
Patents vs Trade Secrets:
Knowledge Licensing and Spillover (with Sudipto Bhattacharya),
Journal of European
Economic Association, December 2006, 4(6), 1112-1147 .
Contracting on time(with Dmitriy
Kvasov) American Economic Review, 95(5), December 2005, 1369-1385.
Attaching Workers Through In-kind Payments: Theory and Evidence from Russia (with Guido Friebel), World Bank Economic Review,
September 2005, 19(2), 175-202.
The role of oligarchs in Russian capitalism
(with Andrei Rachinsky) Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2005, 19(1), 131-150.
also
republished in Chinese in Comparative Studies
dataset
on ownership concentration in Russia
Red tape and
corruption. Journal
of Development Economics, 2004, 73(2), 489-504. [lead
article]
Barter
for price discrimination. (with Dmitriy
Kvasov). International Journal of Industrial Organization,
2004, 22(3), 329-350.
Determinants
of Interregional Labor Mobility in Russia: Evidence from Panel Data. (with Yuri Andrienko).
Economics of Transition, 2004, 12(1), 1-27. [lead
article]
Incomplete
Contracts with Cross-Investments. Contributions
in Theoretical Economics, 2003,3(1), Article 5.
Debt
Overhang and Barter in Russia. (with Igor Makarov
and Mathilde Maurel). Journal
of Comparative Economics, 2002,
30(4), 635-656. [lead article]
| 2010 | "Best Independent Director", Association of Managers of Russia and Russian Institute of Directors |
| 2010 | Top 100 of President of Russia's Reserve of Management Cadre |
| 2009 | Bill Maynes Award, Eurasia Foundation |
| 2009, 10 | "Independent Director of the Year" Prize, National Association of Independent Directors |
2009 |
Top 100 of President of Russia's Reserve of Management Cadre |
| 2009 | Second Prize Medal for Research on Foreign Direct Investment and Natural Resources |
| 2006 | Young
Global Leader, World Economic Forum, Davos |
2005 | First Place Medal for Outstanding
Research on Conflict, Security, and Migration |
2002 | Teaching Excellence Award, 10th Anniversary of the New Economic School |
2001 | Best Academic Manager, Russian Academy
of Science Science Support Foundation, Moscow |
| 2001, 2006 |
“The
Person of Values” Order #18, #26 Club2015, Moscow |
| 2001 | Best
Young Economist Essay Prize, European Association for Research in Industrial Economics |
| 2000 | Gold
Medal for Best Research on Institutions and the Market Global Development Network, First Annual Awards Competition |
| 1997 | Scholarship,
Regional Scholar Exchange Program, US Information Agency and International Research Exchange Bureau |
| 1996 | Honorary
Research Fellowship, Wolverhampton Business School, UK |
| 1995,
1997 | Research Grant “Russia's Social Sciences:
The New Perspective”, Moscow Social Science Foundation and Ford Foundation |
| 1995 | Prize
for Best Research Work of a Young Researcher, Research Competition in Honour of the 40th Anniversary of the Computing Center, Russian Academy of Science |
| 1994 | Research
Grant “Young Economists of Russia”, IRIS Research Center, University of Maryland and CEMI, Moscow |
| 1992-93 | Academician
Lavrentiev's Scholarship of Distinction, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology |
| 1988 | Medal
of Distinction at high school graduation, Kiev Physics and Mathematics High School No.145 |
C0-Editor, Economics of Transition.
Member, Scientific Council,
Bruegel think tank, Brussels
Member, American Economic Association, European Economic Association, the Econometric Society.
Referee, American Economic Review, Berkeley Electronic Journals for Theoretical Economics, Economic Journal, Economics Letters, Economics of Transition, Economic Systems, European Economic Review, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of the Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of European Economic Association, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, Review of Economic Studies.
Co-director, Corporate Governance Taskforce, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University, New York (2003-2006).
Member of the Expert Board, National Training Foundation, Moscow (2001-2003)
Founding Member of the Board, Association of Russian Economic Think Tanks (2002-2003)
Alfa Strakhovanie Since 2009
Sberbank (Savings Bank of the Russian Federation) Since 2008
Rosselkhozbank (Russian Agricultural Bank) 2008-2009
AIZhK (Russian Agency for Home Mortgage Lending) Since 2008
Russia Venture Company Since 2009
Dynasty Foundation Since 2007, Chairman of the Board, Since 2010
Certificate in Company Direction, Institute of Directors, London, UK, 2010