Selected publications

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) , American Political Science Review, November 2009, 103(4), pp. 645-668.

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, 2007.

Knowledge disclosure, patents, and the organization of R&D (with Sudipto Bhattacharya), Journal of European Economic Association, December 2006, 4(6), 1112-1147 .

Smuggling Humans: A Theory of Debt-Financed Migration (with Guido Friebel), Journal of European Economic Association, December 2006, 4(6), 1085-1111. [lead article]

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

Concentrated ownership, market for corporate control, and corporate governance (with Olga Lazareva, Andrei Rachinsky, Serguei Tsoukhlo, Problems of Economic Transition, 2004, 47(3), pages 6-83. [published without the authors' concent or notification]

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]

On Microfoundations of Yaari's Dual Theory of Choice. Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory, 2001, 26(2), 117-137.

Chapters in books

“Challenges Facing the Russian Economy after the Crisis” with Aleh Tsyvinski. In Anders Aslund, Sergei Guriev, and Andrew Kuchins, ed. ‘Russia after the global economic crisis’, Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2010.

“Development Based on Commodity Revenues?” with Alexander Plekhanov and Konstantin Sonin. Chapter 4 of the Transition Report 2009 "Transition in Crisis". European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, London, 2009.

“Oligarchs.” New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition, 2008.

“The Evolution of Personal Wealth in the Former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe” with Andrei Rachinsky, in Davies, James, ed. Personal Wealth from a Global Perspective, Oxford University Press: 2008.

“Privatization: What Have We Learned?” with William Megginson. In Bourguignon, Francois, and Pleskovic, Boris, ed. Beyond Transition. Proceedings of the 18th ABCDE, World Bank, 2006.

“Corporate Finance in Emerging Market Economies.” with Patrick Bolton, Erik Berglof, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya. In Bourguignon, Francois, and Pleskovic, Boris, ed. Beyond Transition. Proceedings of the 18th ABCDE, World Bank, 2006.

“Microeconomic Aspects of Economic Growth in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, 1950-2000”, with Barry Ickes. In Randall Filer and Gur Ofer (eds.) “Growth in Transition” Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

“Microeconomics of Growth around the World”, with Djavad Salehi-Isfahani. In Lyn Squire and Gary McMahon (eds.) "Explaining Growth: A Global Research Project." Palgrave. 2003.

“Barter in Russian Firms”, with Barry Ickes. In Paul Seabright (ed.) 'The Vanishing Ruble: Barter and Currency Substitution in Postcommunist Economies' Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Russia's Barter Economy”, with Barry Ickes. In Erik Berfgloef and Pramesh Vaitilingam (eds.) 'Stuck in Transit: Rethinking Russian Economic Reform ', chapter 7, CEPR, London, 1999.