Latest update: April 2021 Philip Ushchev
PERSONAL
• Date and place of birth: December 30, 1981; Saint Petersburg, Russia • Personal web page: https://sites.google.com/site/philipushchev • E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] • Language proficiency: Russian (native), English (fluent), German (good), Italian (basic)
EDUCATION
2013: 5 years of diploma program in Mathematics and Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State University, Department of Mathematics and Mechanics (Russia)
2006: Candidate of science (PhD equivalent) in Economics, Saint Petersburg State University of Economics (Russia)
2005: MA in Economics, European University at Saint Petersburg (Russia)
2002: BA in Economics, Saint Petersburg State University of Economics (Russia)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Applied General Equilibrium with Imperfect Markets. Networks. Urban Economics.
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT AND AFFILIATIONS
Since 2019: HSE University (Saint Petersburg, Russia) assistant professor (tenure track), Department of Economics academic director, MA program “Applied Economics and Mathematical Methods” leading research fellow, Center for Market Studies and Spatial Economics
PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2018–2019: Monash University (Melbourne, Australia) research fellow (postdoc) at the Department of Economics Philip Ushchev 2 of 8
2011–2018: National Research University Higher School of Economics (Saint Petersburg) docent at the Department of Economics
2009–2011: Saint Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance docent at the Department for Economic Cybernetics and Mathematical Economics
2008–2009: A+S Consult GMbH analyst at the Department of Transportation Planning and Modeling
2006–2008: Saint Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance docent at the Department for Economic Cybernetics and Mathematical Economics
2005–2006: Saint Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance TA at the Department for Economic Cybernetics and Mathematical Economics
RESEARCH PAPERS
Peer-reviewed publications in international journals
• Bucci, A., and P. Ushchev (2020). Specialization vs competition: an anatomy of increasing returns to scale. Journal of Economic Geography, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbaa014
• Ushchev, P., and Y. Zenou (2020). Social norms in networks. Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 185, 104969.
• De Palma, A., Papageorgiou, Y., Thisse, J.-F., and P. Ushchev (2019). About the origin of cities. Journal of Urban Economics 111: 1-13.
• Ivanova, V., and P. Ushchev (2019). Product differentiation, competitive toughness, and intertemporal substitution. Scandinavian Journal of Economics 121: 1244-1269.
• Ushchev, P., and Y. Zenou (2018). Price competition in product variety networks. Games and Economic Behavior 110: 226-247.
• Malykhin, N., and P. Ushchev (2018). How market interactions shape the city structure. Regional Science and Urban Economics 71: 122-136.
• Parenti, M., Ushchev, P., and J.-F. Thisse (2017). Toward a theory of monopolistic competition. Journal of Economic Theory 167: 86-115.
• Ushchev, P., Sloev, I., and J.-F. Thisse (2015). Do we go shopping downtown or in the ’burbs? Journal of Urban Economics 85 (1): 1-15.
• Osharin A., Thisse, J.-F., Ushchev, P., and V. Verbus (2014). Monopolistic competition and income dispersion. Economics Letters 122 (2): 348-352. Philip Ushchev 3 of 8
Chapters
• Thisse, J.-F., and P. Ushchev (2018) Monopolistic competition without apology, in: Hand- book of Game Theory and Industrial Organization I: 93-136. Edward Elgar.
Working papers
• Matsuyama, K., and P. Ushchev (2020). Constant Pass-Through. CEPR DP15475.
• Matsuyama, K., and P. Ushchev (2020). Destabilizing Effects of Market Size in the Dynamics of Innovation. CEPR DP15010. RR requested from the Journal of Economic Theory
• Matsuyama, K., and P. Ushchev (2020). When Does Procompetitive Entry Imply Exces- sive Entry? CEPR DP14991.
• Kokovin, S., Sharapudinov, S., Tarasov, A., and P. Ushchev (2020). A Theory of Monop- olistic Competition with Horizontally Heterogeneous Consumers. CESifo Working Paper No 8082. RR requested from the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
• Behrens, K., Kichko, S., and P. Ushchev (2019). Intersectoral Linkages: Good Shocks, Bad Outcomes? CEPR DP13946.
• Behrens, K., Kichko, S., and P. Ushchev (2018). Intersectoral Markup Divergence (No. 6965). CESifo Working Paper.
• Islam, A., Ushchev, P., Zenou, Y., and X. Zhang (2018). The Value of Information in Technology Adoption: Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh. CEPR DP13419.
• Kokovin, S., Parenti, M., Thisse, J.-F., and P. Ushchev (2017). On the Dilution of Market Power. CEPR DP12367 (also available as HSE WP BRP 176/EC/2017).
• Matsuyama, K., and P. Ushchev (2017). Beyond CES: Three Alternative Classes of Flexible Homothetic Demand Systems. CEPR DP12210 (also available as HSE WP BRP 172/EC/2017).
• Thisse J.-F., and P. Ushchev (2016). When Can A Demand System Be Described By A Multinomial Logit With Income Effect? HSE WP BRP 139/EC/2016.
Work in progress
• The Network Origins of Entry (with A. Campbell and Y. Zenou)
• A Unified Theory of Cities (with M. Turner and J.-F. Thisse) Philip Ushchev 4 of 8
• Hipsters (with V. Boucher and Y. Zenou)
• A Bare-Bones Model of Urban Hierarchy: a Fourier Approach (with André de Palma, Yorgos Y. Papageorgiou, Jacques-François Thisse)
• Optimal Network Design (with Y. Zenou)
• Location, Social Norms, and Recycling (with F. Iskhakov, E. Kyriakopoulou, and Y. Zenou)
• Which peers matter? (with M. Rendall and Y. Zenou)
• Markups and Competition with an Uncertain Number of Firms (with S. Mangin)
• Unifying Local and Global Competition: Kaldor meets Chamberlin (with M. Sandomirskaya and J.-F. Thisse)
Other publications
• Ushchev, P. (2019). Internal city structure formation, in: Urban studies: economy, devel- opment, and management of cities, ed. L. Limonov: 170-250. (in Russian)
• Ushchev, P. (2017). Multi-product firms in monopolistic competition: the role of scale- scope spillovers. Research in Economics 71(4): 675-689. Special issue in honor of 40 years of the Dixit-Stiglitz model.
• Ushchev, P., Sloev, I., and J.-F. Thisse (2014). Competition between small shops and a large shopping center. Journal of the New Economic Association 23 (3): 12-37. (in Russian)
• Molchanov, P., and P. Ushchev (2013). The impact of market size on multi-product firms’ concentration in a monopolistic competition model. Mathematical game theory and applications 5 (3): 27-57 (in Russian)
• Zhelobodko, E., Kichko, S., and P. Ushchev (2013). Factor endowments and market integration in a two-factor monopolistic competition model. Spatial Economics 3: 10-29 (in Russian)
• Chernov, V., and P. Ushchev (2010). Endogenous growth models and economic dynamics of Russian regions. Saint Petersburg, Editorial of Saint Petersburg State University of Economics (in Russian) Philip Ushchev 5 of 8
TEACHING
– Advanced Microeconomics, part 1 (graduate level, HSE-2016, 2017)
– Industrial Organization (graduate level, HSE-2017)
– Empirics of International Economics (undergraduate level, HSE-2016, 2017)
– Intermediate macroeconomics (undergraduate level, HSE-2011, 2012)
– Uncertainty (graduate level, HSE-2011, 2012, 2013)
– Mathematics for economists (graduate level, HSE-2013, 2014)
– World economy (undergraduate level, HSE-2014, 2015)
– Models of economic dynamics (graduate level, SPbSUE-2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011)
– Econometric modeling (graduate level, SPbSUE-2009, 2010, 2011)
– Risk and uncertainty (undergraduate level, SPbSUE-2009, 2010, 2011)
REFEREE SERVICE
AEJ-Microeconomics, European Economic Review, Games and Economic Behavior, Interna- tional Economc Review, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Economic Geography, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Regional Science, Journal of Urban Economics, Management Science, Quarterly Journal of Economics, RAND Journal of Economics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics.
PROFESSIONAL VISITS, CONFERENCES AND SEM- INARS
Guest visits
– Monash University (Melbourne, Australia): Mar 2020
– University of Melbourne (Melbourne, Australia): Mar 2019
– University of Technology Sydney (Sydney, Australia): Feb 2019
– Monash University (Melbourne, Australia): May 2018 Philip Ushchev 6 of 8
– Australian National University (Canberra, Australia): Apr 2018, Nov 2018
– Monash University (Melbourne, Australia): Aug 2017
– Tinbergen Institute (Amsterdam, Netherlands): April 2017
– CORE, Universite Catholique de Louvain (Brussels, Belgium): January 2013; January 2014; January 2015; February 2016; February 2017
– IDE-JETRO (Tokyo, Japan): May 2016
– Columbia University (New York, USA): October–November 2015
– Stockholm University, Department of Economics (Stockholm, Sweden): April 2014
– University of Milan, Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods (Milan, Italy): April 2013
Presenter at conferences
2019: Australasian Econometric Society Meeting (Perth, Australia); 5th Annual Conference in Network Science and Economics (Bloomington, Indiana, US)
2017: UEA European meeting (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2016: EARIE (Lisbon, Portugal); EEA-ESEM (Geneva, Switzerland); RES (Brighton, UK)
2015: SAET, invited session (Cambridge, UK); APET (Luxembourg); RES (Manchester, UK); ICARE (Perm, Russia); META (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia)
2014: EARIE (Milan, Italy); EEA-ESEM (Tolouse, France); APET (Seattle, USA); AMES (Taipei, Taiwan)
2013: ICARE (Perm, Russia); EEA-ESEM (Goethenburg, Sweden); AMES (Singapore); APET (Lisbon, Portugal)
2012: ITSG (Trento, Italy); EARIE (Rome, Italy)
Presenter at seminars
2019: Melbourne University (Melbourne, Australia), Mar 22; University of Technology Sydney (Sydney, Australia), Feb 13;
2018: Australian National University (Canberra, Australia), Nov 27; Monash University (Mel- bourne, Australia), Sept 19; Australian National University (Canberra, Australia), Apr 24
2017: Tinbergen Institute (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Apr 20 Philip Ushchev 7 of 8
2016: IDE-JETRO (Tokyo, Japan), May 25
2014: Stockholm University (Stockholm, Sweden), Apr 23; New Economic School (Moscow, Russia), Apr 7;
2013: University of Milan, Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods (Milan, Italy), April 17
PARTICIPATION IN SUMMER SCHOOLS AND AD- VANCED COURSES
– “Market Power” by Marc Melitz, Paul Klemperer, and Ariel Pakes, ECORES Summer School (Universite libre de Bruxelles, Belgium), May 2015
– “International Trade and Inequality” by Federico Trionfetti, advanced course (HSE Saint Petersburg, Russia), September 2014
– “Microeconometrics” by Jeffrey Wooldridge and Timothy Vogelsang, advanced course (Michigan State University, USA), June 2014
– “Economics of Networks” by Yves Zenou, advanced course (HSE Saint Petersburg, Rus- sia), September-October 2013
– “Search Models in Labor Market and Urban Economics” by Yves Zenou, advanced course (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain), October 2012
– “Special Issues in International Trade” by Gene Grossman, advanced course (Kiel, Ger- many), October-November 2012
– “Spatial Economics: How Geography Matters for Economics”, three-year program, Re- gional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching, New Economic School (Moscow) and HESP, 2010-2012
PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH GRANTS
2008–2010: “Adaptation of endogenous growth models for analysis of regional economic dy- namics in Russia”, RFBR grant 08-06-00418a
2012–2014: “Multi-product firms in monopolistic competition: the impact of opening trade”, EERC grant 12-5711
2015–2016: “Studying competition between shopping places using a theory of hybrid market structures”, individual HSE grant Philip Ushchev 8 of 8
2018–2020: “Income Inequality, Consumer Heterogeneity, and Spatial Structure: the Impact of Social Asymmetries on the Economy”, RSF grant 18-18-00253.
AWARDS
• 2008: 3rd Ovsievich prize “For the fundamental research in mathematical economics carried out in Russia”, for applying models of endogenous growth to the analysis of economic dynamics of the Russian regions.