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Sebastien Bradley
Sebastien Bradley holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. He joined Drexel University as an Assistant Professor in 2011.
His research examines the nature and scope of tax-induced distortions to consumer and firm behavior in environments distinguished by the degree of market salience of particular tax policy features. His work ranges from local tax policy issues such as the consequences of limited attention on the part of consumers for property tax capitalization and delinquency, real estate transaction timing, and air travel demand patterns to international tax issues including consideration of tax-motivated profit reallocation by multinational corporations.
Catarina Marvao
Catarina Marvão is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Accounting and Finance at the Dublin Institute of Technology. She holds a Ph.D. from Trinity College Dublin (2013) and a Double M.Sc. in Economics from the Université Catholique de Louvain and Católica Lisbon (2009).
Her research focuses on industrial organization and international trade and she is particularly interested in antitrust issues, such as detection and prosecution of cartels.
(Last updated November 2016)
Erik Meyersson
Erik Meyersson is an economist specializing in political economy and development economics, with a particular focus on empirical research, emerging economies, and Turkey. Before moving to the private sector in 2017, he was an Assistant Professor at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) at the Stockholm School of Economics.
His research has been featured in international media, including Bloomberg, The Economist, the Financial Times, and Harvard Business Review.
(Last updated June 2026)
Sergiy Gorovyy
Sergiy Gorovyy holds a Ph.D in Business (Finance and Economics) from Columbia University, Graduate School of Business. He joined Morgan Stanley in 2011.
David G. Tarr
David G. Tarr is a consultant and former Lead Economist with the World Bank and Adjunct Professor of International Economics at the New Economic School, Moscow. He has authored more than 60 refereed journal articles, written or edited 11 books or monographs and over 100 other professional papers.
Tarr has worked in more than 25 countries providing trade policy advice. His solely authored journal articles include articles in Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Economic Inquiry, the Southern Economics Journal, the Journal of International Economics and the Journal of Comparative Economics.
Presently, his research interests include the link between the liberalization of barriers in services and growth and poverty reduction (with applications in Tanzania and Kenya), World Trade Organization accession (with applications in Russia and Kazakhstan), assessing the impact of diverse interrelated regional integration agreements (with applications in Chile, Brazil, Russia, Armenia, Tanzania, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan), and assessing the impact of trade liberalization with heterogeneous firms.
Olga Kuzmina
Olga Kuzmina holds a Ph.D in Business (Finance and Economics) from Columbia University, Graduate School of Business. She joined the New Economic School as Assistant Professor in 2011, and holds the position of Promsvyazbank Assistant Professor of Finance since 2012.
Patrick J. Kelly
Patrick J. Kelly is an Associate Professor of Finance at the New Economic School in Moscow. Professor Kelly earned his Ph.D. in Finance and Master Degree in Economics from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Texas at Austin, a visiting lecturer in the Ph.D. program at the University of Melbourne and an Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida where he won awards for both his teaching and research.
He has published articles on these topics in top academic journals including the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Banking and Finance.
Zurab Abramishvili
Zurab Abramishvili is a Doctoral Student and a Junior Researcher at Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education – Economics Institute (CERGE-EI). He holds BA/MA degrees in Mathematics and a MA in Economics from the Tbilisi State University (TSU).
He is a Visiting Lecturer at the Masaryk University in Brno and the Charles University in Prague. He teaches courses in microeconomics and mathematical methods in economics.
Kateryna Bornukova
Kateryna Bornukova is a researcher at the Joint Research Centre (JRC), which she joined in 2023. Kateryna Bornukova previously worked as a visiting professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and as Academic Director at the Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center (BEROC). She has also collaborated with the World Bank and UNICEF as a consultant.
She holds a PhD in Economics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and an MA in Economics from the Kyiv School of Economics. Her research focuses on social policy analysis, fiscal policy, inequality, multidimensional poverty, and child development.
(Last updated June 2026)
Polina Kuznetsova
Polina Kuznetsova holds a position as Senior Researcher in the Institute of Social Analysis and Forecasting at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA). She specializes in social policy and assessment of the effects of economic and social reforms.
Polina Kuznetsova received her MSc in Math from Moscow State University and MA in Economics from the New Economic School (NES, Moscow).
(Last updated October 2019)