Department of Theoretical Economics

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109028, Moscow,
Pokrovsky Boulevard 11, Rooms: S1029, S1030
Phone: +7 (495) 772-95-90*27172, 27174, 27601, 28270

Department Administration

Department Head – Alexander Tarasov

PhD, Penn State University

Deputy Head – Svetlana Seregina

Manager – Zulikhan Ibragimbeili

Senior Administrator – Elizaveta Volodina

Senior Administrator – Natalia Baibouzenko

Administrator – Marina Yudina

About the Department

The Department of Theoretical Economics brings together highly qualified specialists in various fields of economics, including micro and macroeconomics, monetary and financial theory, economic history and the history of economic thought. Our mission is to teach economic disciplines at HSE on the level of leading Western universities.

Publications

Book

Russian and Western Economic Thought: Mutual Influences and Transfer of Ideas

Springer, 2022.

Article

Optimal allocation of multi-dimensional prizes in contests with heterogeneous agents

Antsygina A.

Economic Theory. 2026.

Book chapter

Resource-based International Currency: A History of a Failed Consensual Idea

Nenovsky N.

In bk.: International Economic and Monetary Architecture at the Crossroads Bretton Woods at 80. Routledge, 2025.

Working paper

Support Link Formation in Contests: Theory and an Experiment

Antsygina A., Teteryatnikova M., Tremewan J. C. et al.

SSRN Working Paper Series. Social Science Research Network, 2025

All publications

‘Thinking Up Auctions Is Extremely Interesting’

Oleg Baranov with his PhD advisor, Professor Larry Ausubel, 2011

Oleg Baranov is a graduate of Moscow State University, the New Economic School, and the University of Maryland. He also lectured and ran a popular course on market design at the University of Colorado. He recently passed review for a tenured position at HSE University, and served as the Head of the International Recruiting Committee at the Faculty of Economic Sciences in the 2022–2023 academic year. He will also begin teaching the course ‘Microeconomics 2’ on the HSE and NES Joint Programme in Economics in September 2023. In his interview, Oleg talks about auctions, studying for a PhD, and international recruiting.

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