Field of research: Political Economy
Yuliya Sivay
Yuliya Sivay received her Bachelor’s degree from Novosibirsk State University in 2010 and obtained Master’s degree in Economics from Higher School of Economics in 2012.
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.
Natalia Lamberova
Natalia Lamberova is a graduate student in University of Maryland. Her research received several international grants and fellowships, including Global Development Network CIS Department Development Grant.
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 the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), Stockholm School of Economics (SSE). Prior to joining SITE, Paltseva worked as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen (UCPH). She is also a Research Affiliate at the House of Sustainable Society (HOSS).
Her research interests include Political Economics, Industrial Organization, and Energy and Resource Economics.
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