Education

• 08/2002 - 09/2007: PhD in Economics, European University Institute (Florence, Italy)
• 09/2000 - 06/2002: MA in Economics, Central European University (Budapest, Hungary)
• 09/1994 - 04/2000: Economics, Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia)

Affiliations

CESifo Research Network Affiliate

Previous Positions 

10/2012 - 8/2013: Visiting Professor of Applied Microeconomics, University of Siegen
2/2007 - 1/2010: Post-Doctorate at the Chair of Microeconomics, Leibniz University Hannover

Research Interests

• Law and Economics
• Public Finance
• Industrial Organization
• Health Economics

Links

"How flexible are real wages in EU countries? A panel investigation." (with Desislava Rusinova and Frigyes Heinz) Journal of Macroeconomics, Volume 43, Issue 1, 2015.

"A Journey from a Corruption Port to a Tax Haven." (with Shafik Hebous) Journal of Comparative Economics, Volume 42, Issue 3, 2014.

"Standard Essential Patents: Who is Really Holding Up (and When)?" (with Gregor Langus and Damien Neven) Journal of Competition Law and Economics, Volume 9, Issue 2, 2013.

"Corporate Tax Evasion: The Case for Specialists." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Volume 81, Issue 1, 2012.

"Opportunities to divert, firm value, and taxation: theory and evidence from European firms." (with Robert Krämer) Finanzarchiv, Volume 68, Issue 1, 2012.

"Diagnoses by General Practitioners: Accuracy and Reliability." (with W. Fink and M. Konitzer) International Journal of Forecasting, issue 4, 2009.

"Out-of-equilibrium Play in Tax Evasion Games." Complexity Hints for Economic Policy. Eds. M. Salzano and D. Colander. Springer Verlag, 2007

"Modeling Influence of Tax System on Economic Growth." Collection of Articles of Graduate students. Moscow, TEIS, 2000 (in Russian).

"Tax System in OLG Model of Endogenous Growth." Case Studies in Macroeconomics. Moscow, TEIS, 2000 (in Russian).