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This month three PhD candidates at the Chair of Institutional Economics joined Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) – Ekaterina Vorobeva and Michael Richter as affiliated fellows, and Olga Masyutina as an adjunct fellow.

BIGSSS was created in 2007 through the Excellence…

Our long-time institutional partner, the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (ICSID), celebrated its 10th anniversary on February 1st, 2021.

The Center was founded by Timothy Frye and Andrei Yakovlev at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow back in 2011. It brings…

Ekaterina Paustyan’s working paper on the distribution of politically motivated intergovernmental transfers in Russia is out at the BOFIT discussion paper series. The paper focuses on the case of the 2018 FIFA World Cup and investigates what factors have accounted for the selection of the World Cup…

On January 15th, 2021, Prof. Dr. Michael Rochlitz participated in the TriECON Workshop on Media Economics, a workshop series organized by the Institute for Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Union (IAAEU) at Trier University. Michael presented his paper "Independent Media and…

We are pleased to welcome a new addition to our team – David Karpa joined AG Rochlitz as a PhD candidate on January 1, 2021. David received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from the University of Bremen, and he worked as a student assistant at Prof. Dr. Jutta Günther’s Chair of Economics, esp.…

A book review by Ekaterina Paustyan, our post-doctoral fellow, has just come out in the new issue of Europe-Asia Studies. Ekaterina reviewed the book by Alexander Libman and Michael Rochlitz "Federalism in China and Russia: Story of Success and Story of Failure?", published by Edward Elgar in 2019.

Michael Rochlitz was interviewed by the Russian political scientist Vsevolod Bederson in his podcast “Day of Silence”. The podcast introduces the views of foreign economists and political scientists about Russian politics and economics to a Russian public. The topic of the broadcast was the…

Michael Rochlitz took part in this year’s online edition of the annual Seminar ‘Analytical Sociology: Theory and Empirical Applications’ which is organized by the Department of Sociology at the LMU together with the Academy of Sociology. On November 17th Michael presented his paper there, ‘Staying…

Dr. Ekaterina Paustyan joined the team of Michael Rochlitz as a postdoctoral researcher on November 9th. Ekaterina has recently received her PhD in Political Science from Central European University (Hungary) and succeeded in getting her postdoc position through a highly competitive selection…

On November 7th, 2020, Michael Rochlitz presented the paper “Authoritarian Innovation: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Russia and China” (joint work with Torben Klarl) at the annual convention of the Association of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), which due to the coronavirus…