Irina Bakalova

• PhD in Economics
• Researcher at HSE University

Solar geoengineering (SG) may have the potential to reduce extreme climate damages worldwide. Yet, international coordination will make the difference between success and failure in leveraging it. Using a simple game-theoretic framework, we investigate whether the stability of an efficient, self-enforcing international agreement on SG is attainable...

The Russian government has ambitious targets for the development of the agriculture sector, aiming to double agri-food exports in the next seven years. The performance of the agri-food sector in the last decade speaks to the practicality of reaching the new goal. The Russian agri-food sector’s exports doubled between 2011 and 2018 and as did the ag...

This paper analyses in a systematic way the effect of benefit and cost parameter heterogeneity on the stability and effectiveness of International Environmental Agreements. Compared to existing literature, we consider a more general form of heterogeneity, different functional forms and alternative collective decision making processes in coalitions...