Professorship of Institutional Economics

Welcome
to the Professorship of Institutional Economics
© Michael Rochlitz
Teaching
Our focus is on teaching theoretical foundations and quantitative and experimental methods necessary to analyse complex developmental and transition processes in economics.
© Michael Rochlitz
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.
© Michael Rochlitz

Head and Topics

Prof. Dr. Michael Rochlitz

Comparative Political Economy

Economic Development and Economic Growth

Institutional Change and Economic Transformation

18.05.2022

The power of Russian siloviki - The Sun interview

Michael Rochlitz gave an interview to The Sun newspaper about the Russian security services, the so called siloviki. Michael commented on the growing power of the siloviki in Russia and Putin’s increasing reliance on them since 2012. He also discussed the frustration of many security services with…

17.05.2022

Alessandro Belmonte at IERP Economic Colloquium

Alessandro Belmonte, Assistant Professor in Economics at the University of Urbino (Italy), was invited by Michael Rochlitz to the IERP Economic Colloquium. Alessandro presented his paper "State Building Through Foreign Military Interventions: Evidence from Mali".

Michael and Alessandro studied…

17.05.2022

IERP Working paper - Waste Management in Russia

A new paper by Olga Masyutina and Ekaterina Paustyan has just been published as an IERP discussion paper. In the paper "Environmental Politics in Authoritarian Regimes: Waste Management in the Russian Regions" the authors study the performance of Russia's regional governments in tackling the…