I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor at CERGE-EI in Prague (a joint workplace of Charles University and Czech Academy of Sciences). I received a Ph.D. in Economics from UCLA Anderson School of Management in June 2018.

I am an applied microeconomist with a focus on firms and firm linkages in developing and middle-income countries. I use both reduced-form and structural methods to understand how institutional frictions affect the interactions between the firms and firm linkages, and I also develop new methods.

My research areas are in Development Economics, Industrial Organization, and Political Economy, as well as Applied Econometrics.

cv, google scholar, email: vasily.korovkin@cerge-ei.cz, vaskorovkin@gmail.com

Papers and Publications

• Production Networks and War [ArXiV], [SSRN version], [CEPR version], with Alexey Makarin, under review. Media: Guru NES (in Russian), CEPR Weekly Highlights

• Conflict and Inter-Group Trade: Evidence from the 2014 Russia-Ukraine Crisis [SSRN version], with Alexey Makarin, conditionally accepted @ American Economic Review

• On Policy Evaluation with Aggregate Time-Series Shocks [ArXiV], with Dmitry Arkhangelsky, “reject and resubmit” @ American Economic Review

• Detecting Auctioneer Corruption: Evidence from Russian Procurement Auctions, with Pasha Andreyanov and Alec Davidson

• Field Experiment Estimate of Electoral Fraud in Russian Parliamentary Elections, with Ruben Enikolopov, Maria Petrova, Konstantin Sonin, and Alexey Zakharov, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013, 110(2): 448-452. Media: BBC Russia, News at Princeton

Work in Progress

• Cartels in Procurement Auctions: Country-wide Evidence from Russia, with Pasha Andreyanov