Expectations Matter: Strategies of Small Businesses under Economic Sanctions in Russia. Forthcoming in Eurasian Geography and Economics (with Andrei Yakovlev and Anton Kazun)
Middle Class, Civic Activism and Local Politics: Evidence from Russia. Forthcoming in European Journal of Political Research (with Denis Ivanov and Alexey Zakharov)
Listening to an Authoritarian Neighbor: Russian Propaganda on Chinese Social Media after the Ukraine Invasion. Forthcoming in Political Research Quarterly (with Ming Ma, Daniil Romanov and Genia Kostka) (full text here)
How (Not) To Hide Your Data: Availability of Quantitative Datasets from Russia and Implications for Russian Studies. Forthcoming in Communist and Post-Communist Studies (with Daniil Romanov)
Globalization Narratives: Common Interests or Common Values? Forthcoming in ORDO: Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (full text here)
Mirrors and Mosaics: Decyphering Russian and Chinese Domestic Bloc-Building Narratives. Forthcoming in Perspectives on Politics (with Ming Ma, Daniil Romanov and Genia Kostka) (full text here)
Is Homo Economicus Performative? Evidence from a Beauty Contest Experiment with Mainstream and Non-Mainstream Academic Economists. Forthcoming in Kyklos (with Mikhail Sokolov) (full text here)
Can Western Economics Survive in an Anti-Western Regime? Intellectual Universalism and Internationalization of Economic Science in Russia. European Review of History, 2025, 32(4-5), 435-462 (with Mikhail Sokolov) (full text here)
Putinism and Markets: How (and Why) Do They Fit Together? Russian Review, 2025, 84(4), 628-645 (full text here)
Crises, Adaptation and Resilience - Exploring Crises Responses of Regional Organizations from the Perspective of EU Studies and Comparative Regionalism. Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 2025, 66(3): 507-524 (with Lisa Anders and Daniela Braun) (full text here)
Hidden Transformation of Authoritarian Regionalism: Tracing Organizations' Functions through Officials' Biographies. Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 2025, 66(3): 649-674 (full text here)
The Role of Historical Legacies in the Process of Decentralization in Russia: Compliant Activism in the Context of the Crises of the 2020s. Territory, Politics, Governance, 2025, 13(5): 695-715 (with Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here)
State Violence and Target Group Adaptation: Maintaining Social Status in the Face of Repressions in Soviet Russia. Journal of Peace Research, 2025, 62(2): 195-210 (with Tomila Lankina and Katerina Tertytchnaya) (full text here)
Communist Legacy, Anti-Regime Sentiments, and Modernization Theory: Evidence from a Natural Experiment. Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 2024, 57(1): 45-73 (with Olga Vasilyeva) (full text here)
Eurasian Continuities: Historical Legacies in the Post-Communist World - Ideologies, Practices or Social Construction? Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 2024, 57(1): 1-18 (with Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here)
Historical Family Structure as a Predictor for Liberal Voting: Evidence from a Century of Russian History. Economic Systems, 2023, 47(2): Article 101077 (with Maria Kravtsova) (full text here)
Children of Communism: The Former Party Membership and Demand for Redistribution. Eastern European Economics, 2023, 61(3): 199-237 (with Olga Popova) (full text here)
Encouraged to Cheat? Federal Incentives and Career Concerns at the Sub-National Level as Determinants of Under-Reporting of COVID-19 Mortality in Russia. British Journal of Political Science, 2023, 53(1): 835-860 (with Dmitrii Kofanov, Vladimir Kozlov and Nikita Zakharov) (full text here)
Military Intervention as a Spectacle? Authoritarian Regionalism and Protests in Kazakhstan. International Affairs, 2023, 99(3): 1293-1312 (with Igor Davidzon) (full text here)
Credibility Revolution and the Future of Russian Studies. Post-Soviet Affairs, 2023, 39(1-2): 60-69 (full text here)
Does Integration Rhetoric Help? Eurasian Regionalism and Rhetorical Dissonance of Russian Elites. Europe-Asia Studies, 2022, 74(9): 1574-1595 (full text here)
Russian Power and the State-Owned Enterprise. European Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 73: Article 102122 (with Randall Stone and Evgeny Vinokurov) (full text here)
The Two-Pronged Middle Class: The Old Bourgeoisie, New State-Engineered Middle Class and Democratic Development. American Political Science Review, 2021, 115(3): 948-966 (with Tomila Lankina) (full text here here, supplementary material here)
A Centralist Approach to Regional Development: The Case of the Russian Ministry for the Development of the Far East. Europe-Asia Studies, 2021, 73(6): 1125-1148 (with Andrei Yakovlev) (full text here)
Global Governance and Interaction between International Institutions: The Challenge of the Eurasian International Organizations. Post-Communist Economies, 2021, 33(2-3): 147-149 (with Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here)
Eurasian Regionalism and the WTO: A Building Block or a Stumbling Stone? Post-Communist Economies, 2021, 33(2-3): 246-264 (full text here)
Global Governance and Eurasian International Organizations: Lessons Learned and Future Agenda. Post-Communist Economies, 2021, 33(2-3): 359-377 (with Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here)
Exposure to Conspiracy Theories in the Lab. Economic and Political Studies, 2021, 9(1): 90-112 (with Loukas Balafoutas, Vasileios Selamis and Björn Vollan) (full text here)
Board Empowerment: What Motivates Board Members of Founder-Owned Companies? Journal of Management Inquiry, 2020, 29(2): 188-205 (with Tatiana Dolgopyatova and Andrei Yakovlev) (full text here)
The Real Costs of Plagiarism: Russian Governors, Plagiarized PhD Theses, and Infrastructure in Russian Region. Scientometrics, 2020, 125(3): 2793-2820 (full text here) (with Anna Abalkina)
Varieties of Authoritarianism Matter: Elite Fragmentation, Natural Resources and Economic Growth. European Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 63: Article 101869 (full text here) (with Olga Vasilyeva)
Proletarian Internationalism in Action? Communist Legacies and Attitudes towards Migrants in Russia. Problems of Post-Communism, 2020, 67(4-5): 402-416 (with Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here, supplementary material here)
Historical Persistence of the Alcohol-Induced Mortality in the Russian Federation: Legacy of Early Industrialization. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 2019, 54(6): 656-661 (with Vladimir Kozlov) (full text here)
Soviet Legacies of Economic Development, Oligarchic Rule and Electoral Quality in Eastern Europe's Partial Democracies: The Case of Ukraine. Comparative Politics, 2019, 52(1): 127-148 (with Tomila Lankina) (full text here)
Inequality and Historical Legacies: Evidence from Post-Communist Regions. Post-Communist Economies, 2019, 39(6): 699-724 (with Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here)
Post-Socialist Transition, Authoritarian Consolidation and Social Origin of Political Elites: The Case of Russian Regional Governors. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2019, 60(3): 257-283 (with Alexander Demin and Laura Eras) (full text here)
Anti-Western Conspiracy Thinking in China and Russia: Empirical Evidence and Its Link to Expectations of Collusion. Homo Oeconomicus, 2019, 36(3): 135-163 (with Björn Vollan) (full text here)
Understanding Authoritarian Regionalism. Journal of Democracy, 2018, 29(4): 151-165 (with Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here)
Unintended Benefits of Empowering Boards in Conglomerates: The Case Study of AFK Sistema. Journal of East European Management Studies, 2018, 23(2): 177-202 (with Tatiana Dolgopyatova and Andrei Yakovlev) (full text here)
The Tail Wagging the Dog? Top-Down and Bottom-Up Explanations for Bureaucratic Appointments in Authoritarian Regimes. Russian Politics, 2018, 3(2): 239-259 (with Fabian Burkhardt) (full text here, supplementary material here)
Political Regimes, Income and Health: Evidence from Sub-National Comparative Method. Social Science Research, 2018, 72: 20-37 (with Dina Rosenberg and Vladimir Kozlov) (full text here)
Sticks or Carrots? Comparing Effectiveness of Government Informal Economy Policies in Russia. Comparative Economic Studies, 2018, 60(4): 605-637 (with Janis Kluge) (full text here)
Testosterone and Repression in Non-Democracies: Evidence from a Sample of Russian Governors. Kyklos, 2018, 71(2): 244-278 (with Andre Schultz and Vladimir Kozlov) (full text here; supplementary material here)
Regional International Organizations as a Strategy of Autocracy: The Eurasian Economic Union and Russian Foreign Policy. International Affairs, 2018, 94(5): 1037-1058 (with Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here)
Autocracies and Regional Integration: The Eurasian Case. Post-Communist Economies, 2018, 30(3): 334-364 (with Evgeny Vinokurov) (full text here)
Subnational Political Regimes and Formal Economic Regulation: Evidence from Russian Regions. Regional and Federal Studies, 2017, 27(2): 127-151 (full text here)
The Legacy of Compliant Activism in Autocracies: Post-Communist Experience. Contemporary Politics, 2017, 23(2): 195-213 (with Vladimir Kozlov) (full text here)
Appropriation and Subversion: Pre-Communist Literacy, Communist Party Saturation, and Post-Communist Democratic Outcomes. World Politics, 2016, 68(2): 229-274 (with Tomila Lankina and Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here)
Authoritarian and Democratic Diffusion in Post-Communist Regions. Comparative Political Studies, 2016, 49(12): 1599-1629 (with Tomila Lankina and Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here)
Tax Return as a Political Statement. Review of Law and Economics, 2016, 12(2): 377-445 (with Andre Schultz and Thomas Graeber) (full text here)
Commitment to Local Autonomy in Non-Democracies: Russia and China Compared. Constitutional Political Economy, 2015, 26(2): 221-245 (with Barbara Krug) (full text here)
Is There a Local Knowledge Advantage in Federations? Evidence from a Natural Experiment. Public Choice, 2015, 162(1): 25-42 (with Andre Schultz) (full test here; supplementary material here; details on robustness checks here)
Words or Deeds - What Matters? On the Role of Symbolic Action in Political Decentralization. Empirical Economics, 2015, 49(3): 801-838 (full text here)
CPSU Legacies and Regional Democracy in Contemporary Russia. Political Studies, 2015, 63(S1): 173-190 (with Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here)
Understanding the Survival of Post-Communist Corruption in Contemporary Russia: The Influence of Historical Legacies. Post-Soviet Affairs, 2015, 31(4): 304-338 (with Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here)
Demand for Litigation in the Absence of Traditions of Rule of Law: An Example of Ottoman and Habsburg Legacies in Romania. Constitutional Political Economy, 2014, 25(2): 177-206 (with Martin Mendelski) (full text here)
Economic Integration in China: Politics and Culture. Journal of Comparative Economics, 2014, 42(2): 470-492 (with Carsten Herrmann-Pillath and Xiaofan Yu) (full text here)
International Trade as a Limiting Factor in Democratization: An Analysis of Subnational Regions in Post-Communist Russia. Studies in Comparative International Development, 2014, 49(2): 168-196 (with Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here; supplementary material here)
Judicial Alignment and Criminal Justice: Evidence from Russian Courts. Post-Soviet Affairs, 2014, 30(2-3): 137-170 (with Andre Schultz and Vladimir Kozlov) (full text here; supplementary material here)
Governance of Commons in a Large Nondemocratic Country: The Case of Forestry in the Russian Federation. Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 2014, 44(2): 298-323 (with Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here)
Protection or Repression: The Impact of Judiciary Behavior on SME Development in Russia. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Knowledge, 2014, 2(1): 14-27 (with Vladimir Kozlov) (full text here)
Understanding the Foreign Policy of Autocratic Actors: Ideology or Pragmatism? Russia and the Tymoshenko Trial as a Case Study. Contemporary Politics, 2014, 20(3): 347-364 (with Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here)
Do Economic Crises Impede or Advance Regional Economic Integration in the Post-Soviet Space? Post-Communist Economies, 2014, 26(3): 341-358 (with Evgeny Vinokurov) (full text here)
Ceremonial Science: The State of Russian Economics Seen Through the Lens of the Work of "Doctor of Science" Candidates. Economic Systems, 2014, 38(3): 360-378 (with Joachim Zweynert) (full text here)
Informal Governance and Participation in Non-Democratic International Organizations. Review of International Organizations, 2013, 8(2): 221-243 (with Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here)
Is the USSR Dead? Experience from the Financial and Economic Crisis of 2008-2009. Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 2013, 46(1): 109-122 (with Mikhail Golovnin, Daria Ushkalova and Alexandra Yakusheva) (full text here)
Strategic Tax Collection and Fiscal Decentralization: The Case of Russia. German Economic Review, 2013, 14(4): 449-482 (with Lars P. Feld) (full text here)
Sub-National Variation of Corruption in Russia: What Do We Know About It? REGION: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, 2013, 2(2): 153-180 (with Vladimir Kozlov) (full text here)
Are Human Rights and Economic Well-Being Substitutes? The Evidence from Migration Patterns across the Indian States. European Journal of Political Economy, 2013, 31: 139-164 (with Carsten Herrmann-Pillath and Gaurav Yadav) (full text here)
National Autocratization and the Survival of Sub-National Democracy: Evidence from Russia's Parliamentary Elections of 2011. Acta Politica, 2013, 48(4): 459-489 (with Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here)
Natural Resources and Sub-National Economic Performance: Does Sub-National Democracy Matter? Energy Economics, 2013, 37: 82-99 (full text here)
Communism or Communists? Soviet Legacies and Corruption in Transition Economies. Economics Letters, 2013, 119(1): 101-103 (with Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here; supplementary material here)
The Impact of External Factors on Regime Transition: Lessons from the Russian Regions. Post-Soviet Affairs, 2012, 28(3): 346-401 (with Anastassia Obydenkova) (full text here)
Democracy, Size of Bureaucracy, and Economic Growth: Evidence from Russian Regions. Empirical Economics, 2012, 43(3): 1321-1352 (full text here)
Sub-National Political Regimes and Asymmetric Fiscal Decentralization. Constitutional Political Economy, 2012, 23(4): 302-336 (full text here)
Roving Bandits in Action: Outside Option and Governmental Predation in Autocracies. Kyklos, 2012, 65(4): 526-562 (with Andre Schultz and Vladimir Kozlov) (full text here)
Post-Soviet Integration and the Interaction of Functional Bureaucracies. Review of International Political Economy, 2012, 19(5): 867-894 (with Evgeny Vinokurov) (full text here)
Regional Integration and Economic Convergence in the Post-Soviet Space: Experience of the Decade of Growth. Journal of Common Market Studies, 2012, 50(1): 112-128 (with Evgeny Vinokurov) (full text here)
Learning to be Different: Quantitative Research in Economics and Political Science. Rationality, Markets and Morals, 2012, 3:178-184 (full text here)
Democracy and Growth: Is the Effect Non-Linear? Economic Research Guardian, 2012, 2(1): 99-120 (full text here)
Russian Federalism and Post-Soviet Integration: Divergence of Development Paths. Europe-Asia Studies, 2011, 63(8): 1323-1355 (full text here)
Is It Really Different? Patterns of Regionalization in Post-Soviet Central Asia. Post-Communist Economies, 2011, 23(4): 469-492 (with Evgeny Vinokurov) (full text here)
Constitutions, Regulations, and Taxes: Contradictions of Different Aspects of Decentralization. Journal of Comparative Economics, 2010, 38(4): 395-418 (full text here)
A Small Victorious War: Domestic Revolution and International Conflict. Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, 2010, 16(1): Article 10 (full text here)
Regionalization and Regionalism in the Post-Soviet Space: Current Status and Implications for Institutional Development. Europe-Asia Studies, 2007, 59(3): 401-430 (full text here)
Government-Business Relations and Catching Up Reforms in the CIS. European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2006, 3(2):263-288 (full text here)