Professorship of Institutional Economics

Welcome
to the Professorship of Institutional Economics
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Teaching
Our focus is on teaching theoretical foundations and quantitative and experimental methods necessary to analyse complex developmental and transition processes in economics.
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Research
Using quantitative and experimental methods, we investigate how political institutions affect economic processes, with a focus on the countries of Eastern Europe and Asia.
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Head and Topics

Prof. Dr. Michael Rochlitz

Comparative Political Economy

Economic Development and Economic Growth

Institutional Change and Economic Transformation

queuing in Moscow in the 90s — © Viktor Korotayev/Reuters

20.07.2020

Collective memories, propaganda and authoritarian political support

Last November, Alessandro Belmonte (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca) and Michael Rochlitz published a paper showing how Vladimir Putin strategically recalls memories from the chaotic 1990s to consolidate his hold on power. They then generalized the idea in a theoretical model that has just…

15.07.2020

Staying Out of Trouble: Criminal Cases Against Russian Mayors

Being a high-level official in Russia does not make you immune to criminal prosecution, but what are the factors that help Russian elites avoid getting arrested? This is the question that Michael Rochlitz and his co-authors Noah Buckley, Ora John Reuter and Anton Aisin try to answer in their new Bre…

27.06.2020

A new article in Post-Soviet Affairs

A new paper by Michael Rochlitz, co-authored by Anton Kazun (HSE) and Andrei Yakovlev (HSE), on evolution of corporate raiding attacks in Russia has been published online in Post-Soviet Affairs. The article describes a shift in property-rights relations in Russia, from business capture in the 2000s…