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Department of Applied Economics
Faculty of Economic Sciences
Department of Applied Economics
Contacts

109028, Moscow
Pokrovsky blvd. 11,
Room S-527
Phone: (495) 772-95-99 ext.27502, 27503, 27498

Administration
Svetlana B. Avdasheva
Department Head – Svetlana B. Avdasheva
Liudmila S. Zasimova
Deputy Department Head – Liudmila S. Zasimova
Maxim Shevelev
Manager – Maxim Shevelev
Events
Apr 25 – Apr 26
7th Conference "Applied Econometrics"
All events
Publications
Book
Academic Star Wars: Excellence Initiatives in Global Perspective
In press

Yudkevich Maria, Altbach P. G., Salmi J.

Cambridge: MIT Press, 2023.

Article
The Impact of Carbon Tax and Research Subsidies on Economic Growth in Japan

Besstremyannaya G., Dasher R., Golovan S.

HSE Economic Journal. 2025. Vol. 29. No. 1. P. 72-102.

Book chapter
Science or industry: Improving the quality of the Russian higher education system

Panova A., Slepyh V.

In bk.: Vocation, Technology & Education. Vol. 1. Iss. 4. Shenzhen Polytechnic University, 2024.

Working paper
Living Standards in the USSR during the Interwar Period

Voskoboynikov I.

Economics/EC. WP BRP. Высшая школа экономики, 2023. No. 264.

All publications
Contacts

109028, Moscow
Pokrovsky blvd. 11,
Room S-527
Phone: (495) 772-95-99 ext.27502, 27503, 27498

Administration
Svetlana B. Avdasheva
Department Head – Svetlana B. Avdasheva
Liudmila S. Zasimova
Deputy Department Head – Liudmila S. Zasimova
Maxim Shevelev
Manager – Maxim Shevelev
Faculty of Economic Sciences
Department of Applied Economics

Institutional Economics

2023/2024
Academic Year
ENG
Instruction in English
4
ECTS credits
Delivered by:
Department of Applied Economics
Type:
Elective course
When:
4 year, 1, 2 module

Instructors

Natkhov, Timur

Natkhov, Timur

Panova, Anna

Panova, Anna

Course Syllabus

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Abstract

Course on Institutional Economics is a step towards understanding institutions and their role in economics and society. During this course we will show that in the world where all transactions are connected with costs and people squint towards opportunism, it is important to create rules and systematically monitor everyone is following them. Together these rules and enforcement mechanisms are called institutions. The main objective of this course is to demonstrate how institutions work in various spheres, what happens if they become weak or inefficient. We will talk about the institution of property rights and about contracts, will look for historic examples and analyze modern cases, will find evidence of the fact that institutions are vitally important for the prosperity of countries as well as for making the simplest transactions between citizens possible. Course on Institutional Economics gives an overview of modern institutional theory, its development and current state, its basic instruments and approaches. Special focus is made on ways to use these instruments and approaches for solving real-life problems.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • to form a detailed view about current development of new institutional theory, about main instruments and approaches
  • to develop competences, which allow to implement the methodology of new institutional economics towards solving practical problems
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Ability to use instruments of game theory and social networks to analyse institutions
  • Ability to use instruments of game theory to analyse incentives in transactions
  • Ability to use instruments of game theory to analyse institutions
  • Ability to use instruments of new institutional economics to analyse contracts
  • Ability to use instruments of new institutional economics to analyse firms
  • Ability to use instruments of new institutional economics to analyse particular institutions
  • Ability to use instruments of new institutional economics to analyse relations between firms, individuals and state
  • Ability to use theory of institutions in analysis of institutional environment of different settings
  • Understanding of main questions that could be addressed by New Institutional Theory
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Introduction to New Institutional Economics.
  • Institutions
  • Transaction Costs
  • Institutions, Transaction Costs and Networks
  • Contract Theories
  • Institutions of Property Rights
  • Property rights, Agency costs and Economic outputs
  • Institutional Change, Institutions and Growth.
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Контрольная работа
  • non-blocking Экзамен
  • non-blocking Работа на семинарах (обсуждение статей)
  • non-blocking Эссе по предложенной статье
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2023/2024 2nd module
    0.2 * Контрольная работа + 0.1 * Работа на семинарах (обсуждение статей) + 0.1 * Работа на семинарах (обсуждение статей) + 0.4 * Экзамен + 0.2 * Эссе по предложенной статье
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • Bloom, N., Liang, J., Roberts, J., & Ying, Z. J. (2015). Does Working from Home Work? Evidence from a Chinese Experiment*. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 130(1), 165–218. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qju032
  • COASE, R. H. (1988). 1. The Nature of the Firm: Origin. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.6EF0F9C3
  • Economic behavior and institutions, Eggertsson, T., 1997
  • Furubotn, E. G., & Richter, R. (2005). Institutions and Economic Theory : The Contribution of the New Institutional Economics (Vol. 2nd ed). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=469024
  • Guiso, L., Sapienza, P., & Zingales, L. (2006). Does Culture Affect Economic Outcomes? Journal of Economic Perspectives, 20(2), 23–48. https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.20.2.23
  • Hendrikse, G., Hippmann, P., & Windsperger, J. (2015). Trust, transaction costs and contractual incompleteness in franchising. Small Business Economics, 44(4), 867–888. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-014-9626-9
  • Johnson, N. D., & Nye, J. V. C. (2011). Does fortune favor dragons? Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, (1), 85. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.a.eee.jeborg.v78y2011i1p85.97
  • North, D. C. (1990). Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=510978
  • Polterovich, V. (1999). Институциональные Ловушки И Экономические Реформы[Institutional Traps and Economic Reforms]. MPRA Paper. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.p.pra.mprapa.27257
  • Property rights for the poor: effects of land titling. (2010). Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.F39178F5
  • Raymond Fisman, & Shang-Jin Wei. (2009). The Smuggling of Art, and the Art of Smuggling: Uncovering the Illicit Trade in Cultural Property and Antiques. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, (3), 82. https://doi.org/10.1257/app.1.3.82
  • Steven Tadelis. (2016). Reputation and Feedback Systems in Online Platform Markets. Annual Review of Economics, (1), 321. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-080315-015325
  • Sümeyra Atmaca, Koen Schoors, & Marijn Verschelde. (2016). Bank Loyalty, Social Networks And Crisis. Working Papers of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.p.rug.rugwps.16.923

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Bolton, P. (DE-588)128734906, (DE-576)170475301. (2005). Contract theory / Patrick Bolton and Mathias Dewatripont. Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]: MIT Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edswao&AN=edswao.114696918
  • Camerer, C. F., & Fehr, E. (2006). When Does “Economic Man” Dominate Social Behavior? Science, 311(5757), 47–52. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1110600
  • Demsetz, H. (1967). Toward a Theory of Property Rights. American Economic Review, 57(2), 347. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=bsu&AN=4493727
  • Frye, T. (2004). Credible Commitment and Property Rights: Evidence from Russia. American Political Science Review, (03), 453. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.a.cup.apsrev.v98y2004i03p453.466.00

Authors

  • Natkhov Timur Vladimirovich
  • YUDKEVICH MARIYA MARKOVNA
  • PODKOLZINA ELENA ANATOLEVNA