I am a teaching fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick and a research associate at the CAGE Research Centre.

I received my PhD in Political Science from UCLA in 2020. I hold Candidate of Science (PhD equivalent) in Economics from the Higher School of Economics and MA in Economics from the New Economic School.

I am interested in political economy and economic history.

Publications

• Substituting growth for money: Intergovernmental transfers and electoral support in the Russian Federation, 2000-2008, with Israel Marques and Andrei Yakovlev. Economics & Politics, 2016, 28(1), 23-54

• Regional elites and Moscow, with Nikolay Petrov. The New Autocracy: Information, Politics, and Policy in Putin’s Russia, ed. Daniel Treisman, Brookings Institution Press, 2018

Working papers

• Discrimination, Market Entry Barriers, and Corporations in Imperial Russia, with Imil Nurutdinov

• Employment Concentration and Voter Turnout in Russian Elections

• Establishing a Parliament from Scratch: Electoral Manipulation in Imperial Russia

• Politics in Poor Places? Clientelism and Elections in Democracies, with Miriam Golden and Stephane Wolton

Work in progress

• If You do not Change your Behaviour: Managing Threats to State Security in Lithuania under Soviet rule, with Mark Harrison

• Effects on Reelection Rates of the Introduction of Merit Civil Service Appointments in U.S. States, with Miriam Golden and Stephane Wolton