Welcome to my personal website!

I am the Head of the Laboratory for Institutional Analysis at Higher School of Economics in Moscow.

I am an economic historian with special interest in Russian economic history of the Imperial period. I study the formation of human capital, knowledge and technology diffusion, and sources of institutional divergence across space and time.  Most of my research focuses on Eastern Europe as a laboratory of catching-up economies developing through technology adoption and often-late institutional reforms. This setting allows me to explore various interactions between the main sources of economic development -- accumulation of knowledge, technological innovations and institutional change. 

I teach World Economic History and Institutional Economics at Higher School of Economics and at Moscow State University.

You can contact me by email: timur.natkhov at hse.ru

Address: Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Pokrovskiy boulevard 11, office G-506.