Field of research: Political Economy
Konstantin Sonin
Konstantin Sonin is John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. His research interests include political economics, economic theory, and conflict.
Sonin earned MSc and PhD in mathematics from Moscow State University and MA in economics from Moscow’s New Economic School (NES), was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Davis Center, a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and a visiting professor at the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management. Before joining the University of Chicago, he served on the faculty and as a vice-president of NES and HSE University in Moscow. Over two decades, he has guest-lectured in dozens of universities, summer schools, and high schools across Russia and worked part-time as a teacher of economics in a high school.
His research has been published in leading academic outlets in economics and political science. In addition to academic work, Sonin writes columns, Op-Eds, and blogs on Russia-related political and economic issues. In 2023, he was put on the federal wanted list in Russia for posting information about the atrocities that the Russian occupying forces committed in the town of Bucha in Ukraine.
Konstantin first visited the Stockholm Institute for Transition Economies in 1999, and has been a research affiliate and a friend ever since.
Anton Sobolev
Anton Sobolev is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Mannheim. He was a Research Fellow at International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development and Laboratory for Political Studies at Moscow Higher School of Economics in 2008 – 2013.
His papers appeared in leading journals of political science (World Politics, Post-Soviet Affairs, Europe-Asia Studies, Problems of Post-Communism). He published in Russian and American leading printed and electronic media, including Vedomosti, the leading Russian business daily, Forbes-Russia and The Monkey Cage.
Dmitry Dagaev
Dmitry Dagaev is a Deputy Vice-Rector and Associate Professor in National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow). He received his Ph.D. (Kandidat nauk) degree in Mathematics from Moscow State University (2011) and Master’s degree in Economics from New Economic School (Moscow).
Elena Paltseva
Elena Paltseva is an Associate Professor at Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), Stockholm School of Economics (SSE). Prior to joining SITE, Paltseva has worked as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen (UCPH). Her research interests include Political Economics, Industrial Organization, Energy and Resource Economics, and Gender Economics.
(Last updated November 2023)
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Ruben Enikolopov
Ruben Enikolopov is the Rector and Professor of Economics at the New Economic School in Moscow, ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), and Researcher at Barcelona Institute for Political Economy and Governance (IPEG). He is also a Research Fellow for the Centre for Economic Policy Research and a Research Affiliate at the International Growth Centre.
With a PhD in Economics from Harvard University, his research mainly focusses on empirical analysis related to Political Economy, Economics of Mass Media, Development Economics and Corporate Finance. He has published various papers in the best academic journals including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Review of Economic Studies.
Anders Olofsgård
Anders Olofsgård is currently Deputy Director at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) and Associate Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics. Before that, he was Associate Professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), at Stockholm University, in 2001.
Olofgård’s primary research areas are political economy, development and applied microeconomics, and he has published widely in both economics and political science journals. He has also been a visiting scholar at the research department of the IMF and done work for among others the World Bank, USAID and the Swedish Parliament.
(Last updated November 2019)