KONSTANTIN SONIN and CEFIR 47 Nakhimovsky pr. , 117418, ph. (095) 129 17 00 fax (095) 105 50 03 e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] http//: www.nes.ru/~ksonin/english.htm

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Political , Transition, Development, and Comparative Economics, Auction Theory

CURRENT AFFILIATION

New Economic School and CEFIR, SUEK Assistant Professor, 2001 – Center for Economic Policy Research, London, UK Institutions and Economic Performance Program, Research Affiliate, 2001 –

PREVIOUS RESEARCH POSITIONS

Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, US, 2004-05 Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University Post-doctoral Fellow, 2000 – 2001 EERC Russia, Focus on Policy project ‘Bankruptcy in Russia: Toward Creditor Protection and Restructuring', Project Coordinator, 2000 – 2002 Russian-European Center for Economic Policy Senior Economist, 1998 – 2000 Central Economics and Mathematics Institute, RAS Research Fellow, 1998 – 2001

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

New Economic School Advanced Microeconomics, Auction Theory, Political Economics, 2001- Outreach Center at the New Economic School Instructor for university teachers of Micro, Public Economics, Auction Theory, and Political Economics, 1999 – Lecturer (Public Economics) in Ural State University (2000), Volgograd State Univeristy (2002) Higher School of Economics, Moscow Lecturer (Theory of Money and Financial Markets), 1998 Ronald Coase Workshop, Lecturer, 2003, 2004

1 EDUCATION

Moscow State University, Faculty for Mathematics and Mechanics Ph.D. (kandidat) in Mathematics, 1998 M.Sc. (diploma) in Mathematics, 1995 New Economic School, Moscow MA in Economics, 1998 11th Jerusalem Summer School in Economics, Financial Economics, Israel, June 2000 9th Jerusalem Summer School in Economics, Auction Theory, Israel, June 1998 Bochum-Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany, September 1996 – February 1997

AWARDS AND GRANTS

Research Medal (2nd place) Global Development Network, 2006 Deutsche Bank Membership for the Institute for Advanced Study, 2004-05 Research Medal (1st place) of the Global Development Network, World Bank, 2004 Award for a Best Economist of the Russian Academy of Science, 2002, 2003 Earhart Fellowship for participation in ISNIE Annual Conference, 2000, 2002 Research Grant of the Economic Education and Research Consortium, 2000 Zvi Griliches Award of the Economic Education and Research Consortium, 1999 Ford Foundation Grant for participation in CEPR Transition Economies Workshop, 1999 Research Grant of the Economic Education and Research Consortium, 1998 CSMEE grant for participation in the International Congress of Mathematicians, 1998 Best Student Paper, New Economic School, 1998 Research Grant of the Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector at the University of Maryland at College Park, USA, 1997 Research Grants of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, 1996-97, 1999

WORKING PAPERS

Coalition Formation in Political Games (with and Georgy Egorov), 2006 Dictators, Repression and the Median Citizen: An "Eliminations Model" of Stalin's Terror (Data from the NKVD Archives) (with Paul Gregory and Philipp Shroeder), 2006 Media Freedom, Bureaucratic Incentives, and the Resource Curse (with Georgy Egorov and ), 2006 The Killing Game: Reputation and Knowledge in Non-democratic Succession (with Georgy Egorov; revise and resubmit to Econometrica), 2005 Dictators and Their Viziers: Agency Problems in Dictatorships (with Georgy Egorov), 2004 Is Political Risk Company-Specific? The Market Side of the Yukos Affair (with Alexei Goriaev), 2004 Businessman Candidates (with Scott Gehlbach and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya), 2004

2 Provincial Protectionism, 2002, (revise and resubmit to Journal of ; also published in Comparative Studies in Chinese) Efficient Actions in a Dynamic Auction Environment (with Michael Schwarz), 2001 (revise and resubmit to Games and Economic Behavior) Capture of Bankruptcy: Theory and Evidence from Russia (with Ariane Lambert and Ekatherina Zhuravskaya), CEPR Discussion Paper 2488, 2000, also published in Comparative Studies (in Chinese)

PUBLICATIONS

A Theory of Brinkmanship, Conflicts, and Commitments (with Michael Schwarz), Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, forthcoming Corruption and Collusive Market-Sharing in Procurement (with Ariane Lambert), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, forthcoming Passive Creditors (with Koen Schoors), International Finance, 8 (1), 57-86, March 2005. Why the Rich May Favor Protection of Property Rights, Journal of Comparative Economics, 31 (4), 715-731, 2003, symposium on Appropriate Institutions for Growth (S.Djankov and A.Shleifer, eds.). Information Revelation and Efficiency in Auctions (with Anna Mikoucheva), Economics Letters, 83 (2004), 277-284. Bankruptcy in Russia: Away from Creditors Protection and Restructuring (with Ekatherina Zhuravskaya), Russian Economic Trends, v.1, 2001 Krull Dimension of Malcev-Neumann Rings, Communications in Algebra, 26 (9), 1998, 2915-31. Biregular Laurent Series Rings, Vestnik of the Moscow State University, ser. Mathematics, n.4, 1997, 22-4 (in Russian) Semiprimitive and Semiperfect Series Rings, Mathematical Notes, 60 (2), 300-03, 1996. Regular Skew Laurent Series Rings, Von Neumann Regular Laurent Series Rings, Fund. i prikl. mathematika, 1 (1), 315-17, 1995, Fund. i prikl. mathematika, 1 (2), 565-68, 1995 (in Russian).

CONFERENCE AND INVITED SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS

Invited seminar presentations 2004-2006: U. Wisconsin/Madison, Berkeley, NYU/Columbia, Princeton, Middlebury, Washington University, Penn State, Harvard/MIT, U.Chicago, Harvard, Stanford GSB Global Development Network Annual Conference, St. Petersburg, January 2006(Provincial Protectionism) 7th World Congress of the Econometric Society, London UK (Dictators and Their Viziers) International Society for New Institutional Economics (ISNIE), Barcelona, September 2005 (Dictators and Their Viziers) Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2005 (Dictators and Their Viziers; The Non-emergence of a Political Party) ACES/ASSA Meeting, Philadelphia, January 2005 (Businessman Candidates)

3 European Economic Association/ESEM, Madrid (Conflicts and Commitments, Businessman Candidates) Second World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Marseille, July 2004 (Variable Value Environment: Auctions and Actions; Businessman Candidates) North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Providence, June 2004 (Businessman Candidates) Global Development Network Annual Conference, New Dehli, January 2004 (Why the Rich May Favor Poor Protection of Property Rights) Association for Comparative Economics Studies/ASSA Meeting, San Diego, January 2004 (Capture of Law: Evidence from Russian Transition) International Society for New Institutional Economics, Budapest, September 2003 (Electing a Stationary Bandit) CEPR/WDI Annual Transition Economics Conference, Budapest, July 2003 (Provincial Protectionism) Annual Conference of the European Economic Association, Stockholm, August 2003 (Provincial Protectionism) North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Evanston, June 2003 (Provincial Protectionism) Political Economics Workshop, Harris School of Public Policy, , April 2003 (Provincial Protectionism) Political Economy Workshop, Kellogg School of Business, Northwestern University, March 2003 (Conflicts and Commitments) Micro Theory Workshop, Economics Department, Penn State University, State College, март 2003 (Information Revelation and Efficiency in Auctions) Microanalysis of Transition Economics Series, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, March 2003 (Provincial Protectionism) Theory Workshop, Economics Department, Columbia University, New York, March 2003 (Information Revelation and Efficiency in Auctions) International Society for New Institutional Economics Annual Conference, Cambridge, MA, September 2002 (Provincial Protectionism) World Bank Conference on Appropriate Institutions for Growth, Washington, DC, September 2002 (Why the Rich May Favor Poor Protection of Property Rights) Institutional Economics Seminar, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, April 2002 (The Variable Value Environment: Auctions and Actions) Annual Conference of the European Economic Association, Lausanne, 2001 (The Variable Value Environment: Auctions and Actions) North American Meeting of the Econometric Society, College Park, June 2001 (The Variable Value Environment: Auctions and Actions) Сomparative Economics Seminar, Department of Economics, University of Maryland at College Park, April 2001 (Capture of Bankruptcy: Theory and Evidence from Russia) Comparative Economics Seminar, William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan Business School, April 2001 (Capture of Bankruptcy: Theory and Evidence from Russia) Law and Economics Workshop, Department of Economics, Harvard, April 2001 (Capture of Bankruptcy: Theory and Evidence from Russia) Microanalysis of Transition Economics Series, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, March 2001 (Capture of Bankruptcy: Theory and Evidence from Russia)

4 Theory Workshop, Economics Department, Columbia University, New York, March 2001 (The Variable Value Environment: Auctions and Actions) Comparative Economics Seminar, Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard, November 2000 (Capture of Bankruptcy: Theory and Evidence from Russia) International Society for New Institutional Economics, Tuebingen, Germany, September 2000 (Capture of Bankruptcy: Theory and Evidence from Russia) 6th World Congress of the Econometric Society, Seattle, August 2000 (Private Protection of Property Rights, Inequality, and Economic Growth in Transition Economie) First World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Bilbao, Spain, June 2000 (Private Interests in Public Tenders; poster) 3rd SPIDER Conference on Public Economics, St. Petersburg, May 2000 (Private Interests in Public Tenders) 5th Young Economists Conference, Oxford, UK, March 2000 (Inequality, Property Rights Protection, and Economic Growth in Transition Economies; poster) First Meeting of the Global Development Network, Bonn, December 1999 (Inequality, Property Rights Protection, and Economic Growth in Transition Economies) CEPR Young Academics Workshop on Transition Economics, Budapest, Hungary, May 1999 (Inequality, Property Rights Protection, and Economic Growth in Transition Economies) International Congress of Mathematicians, Berlin, August 1998 (Krull Dimension of Malcev-Neumann Rings) D.K.Faddeev Memorial International Conference in Algebra, St. Petersburg, June 1997 (Krull Dimension of Malcev-Neumann Rings)

NON-ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

Fortnightly column in The Moscow Times and Vedomosti (in Russian) Putin's Rule of Law is Mere Rhetoric, in Kremlin Echo pamphlet published by the Foreign Policy Centre, London, January 2005 Review of Gaddy, Clifford and Barry Ickes, Russia's Virtual Economy, in Journal of Economic Literature, March 2005 America Through Russian Eyes: Two Images in an Old Mirror, LeBanquet (in French), September 2004

OTHER AFFILIATIONS, PROFESSIONAL SERVICE, AND MEMBERSHIP

William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan Research Fellow, 2001 – Association for Studies in Public Economics in Russia (ASPE), Member of the Board International Society for New Institutional Economics

LANGUAGES

Russian (native), English (fluent), German (academic)

PERSONAL DATA

Nationality: Russia Born February 22, 1972

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