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Introduction
I am a postdoc at the University of Freiburg doing research on the political economy of autocratic regimes using the case of Russia as a laboratory.
Additional affiliations
September 2019 - September 2020
April 2014 - August 2019
Education
April 2014 - August 2019
October 2008 - July 2012
September 2004 - July 2008
Kazan State Financial and Economic Institute
Field of study
- Accounting and Auditing
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Publications (25)
We analyze the determinants of corruption in Russia using law enforcement data on corruption incidents for a panel of 79 Russian regions for the period 2004–13. We find that the relative salaries of bureaucrats determine corruption levels: corruption declines as relative salaries rise, yet at strongly diminishing rates. Furthermore, we show that ev...
This article investigates the determinants and consequences of manipulating COVID-19 statistics in an authoritarian federation using the Russian case. It abandons the interpretation of the authoritarian regime as a unitary actor and acknowledges the need to account for a complex interaction of various bureaucratic and political players to understan...
This paper investigates the causal impact of direct cash transfers on health, well-being, and life satisfaction among adolescents in Russia during the pandemic years. We study an unanticipated introduction of a COVID-19 state support policy for families with children in the form of two one-off transfers (140$ each) for all children younger than 16...
a smart dictatorship that mimics democratic institutions, notably relatively free elections, and a relatively free press. Drawing on a unique granular dataset on journalist harassment and the predetermined, staggered timing of local elections, we find evidence of strong political cycles of media repression. This media repression ahead of elections...
This paper examines the impact of outdoor temperature on media bias in a unique empirical setting. We take advantage of the geographical proximity of locations of the three major US news networks, ABC News, CBS News, and NBC News – all headquartered in New York City – and granular variations in local daily temperatures. We use 12 years of daily han...
We investigate the relationship between oil windfalls and income inequality using the subnational data of one of the resource-richest and highly unequal countries in the world – Russia. While previous literature produced contradictory findings due to the use of an aggregate measure of oil rents mainly in cross-national settings, we focus exclusivel...
A low prevalence of smokers among the confirmed patients with COVID-19 has been reported by multiple hospital-based studies, and this observation gave rise to a hypothesis that smoking has a protective effect against the novel coronavirus. We test this prediction in a population-based study across the US states and use an instrumental variable appr...
The paper proposes an asymmetric relationship between oil rents and institutions such that only positive oil windfalls adversely affect institutional quality, and negative oil windfalls have no impact. We test this theory empirically by studying the dynamics of institutional quality in Russian regions. We find that increases in tax revenues caused...
This paper investigates the relationship between corruption and fixed capital investment in the setting of a corrupt country. Using different measures of corruption – registered cases of bribe taking and incidents of experienced corruption by the population – we find a negative relationship between investment and corruption. We then address the pro...
We analyze the determinants of corruption in Russia using law enforcement data on corruption incidents for a panel of 79 Russian regions for the period 2004-13. We find that the relative salaries of bureaucrats determine corruption levels: corruption declines as relative salaries rise, yet at strongly diminishing rates. Furthermore, we show that ev...
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I'd like to ask if the forces behind the continental drift on Earth have ever been linked to the formation of the Moon as a result of Big Impact? I have an idea that the movement in tectonic plates has been caused as a result of a huge cosmic body smashing into Earth. Then the intertial force of the impact could be seen as a driving mechanism behind past and current plate movements. The primary illustration behind it could be a 3-dimensional dynamics of liquid flows at the surface of a cup after dropping a different fluid on its surface. That would possibly explain the formation of continents and seismic activities.
So could you please suggest me some articles on that topic? Has this idea been suggested before?
For big impact info see: http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Dec98/OriginEarthMoon.html
I'd like to start a discussion on universal suffrage and its role in contemporary politics. On one hand suffrage provides a fair representation of interests of each member of society and potentially can supply better accountability, on the other hand if we look from the perspective of "medium voter" we may hypothesize that universality of suffrage will favour "populistic" policies and it can even worsen accountability in unstable democracies. Of course there are even more aspects, but what is your educated opinion on that topic?
Links and comments will be appreciated!
Relevant literature I have gone through:
– Eisenhauer (2011) The Rich, the Poor and the Middle Class - thresholds and intensity indices
– Atkinson and Brandolini (2011) On the identification of the “middle class”
– Borraz (2011) [working paper] Polarization and the Middle Class
