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Elena Podkolzina
Elena works as a deputy head of the Center for Institutional Studies and associate professor at the Faculty of Economics Sciences in Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Public procurement, contract theories, law and economics are her main research interests.
Anna Balsevich
Anna works as a Junior Research Fellow and teacher at the Center for Institutional Studies in Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Her research interests include economic analysis of the public sector, institutional economics, law and economics.
Krzysztof Krogulski
Krzysztof Krogulski is an Economist in the International Monetary Fund’s Regional Office for Central and Eastern Europe in Warsaw.
He is responsible for surveillance and analysis of cross-regional developments and supports the outreach of the IMF in the region. He graduated from Warsaw University.
Bas B. Bakker
Bas B. Bakker is the IMF’s Senior Regional Resident Representative for Central and Eastern Europe in Warsaw. He joined the IMF in 1993 and has held in four IMF departments, working on a range of countries, and policy and research issues. He has worked extensively on Central and Eastern Europe, including as head of the Emerging Europe Regional Division and as mission chief for Bulgaria.
He is the co-author of the book “How Emerging Europe Came Through the 2008/09 Crisis: An Account by the Staff of the IMF’s European Department.” He is a national from the Netherlands and obtained his PhD in economics from the University of Groningen.
Konstantins Benkovskis
Konstantins Benkovskis is the Adviser in the Monetary Policy Department of the Bank of Latvia. His main research activities include international trade, competitiveness, and macroeconomic forecasting. He is also the active member of the ESCB Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet). Konstantins Benkovskis combines his office duties at the Bank of Latvia with the position of Assistant Professor at Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, where he teaches International Economics and Econometrics for undergraduates.
Vitalijs Jascisens
Vitalijs Jascisens is a Ph.D. candidate at Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) and a visiting researcher at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE). He holds MPhil in economics from TSE, BSc in economics and business administration from Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, and BSc in physics from the University of Latvia.
Vitalijs’ research interests lie primarily in development economics, industrial organisation and public finance.
Mikael Bergbrant
Dr. Mikael Bergbrant is an Assistant Professor in the department of Economics and Finance at St. Johns University. He holds an MBA and a Ph.D. from the University of South Florida and is a CFA charter holder.
His research interests are in the areas of international finance and risk management. He has accepted/published articles in several influential journals such as the Journal of Financial Intermediation, Financial Management, and the Journal of Banking and Finance. Dr. Bergbrant strongly believes in the value of presenting his own, and discussing others, research and he often participates in academic conferences.
Scott Gehlbach
Scott Gehlbach is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A political economist and comparativst, Gehlbach’s work is motivated by the contemporary and historical experience of Russia and other post-communist states.
Gehlbach has at various times been affiliated with both the New Economic School and the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. He received his Ph.D. in political science and economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
John S. Earle
John S. Earle received his undergraduate degrees from Oberlin College and Conservatory, and his Ph.D. from Stanford University. Now a Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University, he has also taught at Stanford University, Stockholm School of Economics, University of Vienna, and Central European University. His main research interests are in labor, development, transition, and institutions, including topics such as employment policies, financial constraints, reallocation, and the effects of structural and institutional change on firms and workers. A former President of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies, his articles have been published in leading journals in not only economics, but also political science, management, and finance.
Reinaldo Diogo Luz
Reinaldo Luz holds a Master in Business Administration from the COPPEAD Graduate School of Business, at the Federal University of Rio de Janerio, and he is concluding his Ph.D in the Doctoral Program in Law the UFMG Law School in Brazil. He has over 15 years of experience in public management. He was a visiting scholar at the Stockholm School of Economics in 2014-15.
His research fields include anti-corruption law, antitrust law, law and economics, administrative law, and public procurement.