Konstantin Sonin is a Russian economist. He is currently SUEK Professor of Economics and Vice Rector at the New Economic School

New Economic School

New Economic School, NES is a graduate school of economics in Moscow, Russia.-Alumni and students:...

 in Moscow, Russia. He joined NES as an Assistant Professor in 2001 and received tenure as a full Professor of Economics in 2009. His primary interests are in political economics, development economics, and economic theory.

He has published in leading academic journals in economics and political science such as American Economic Review

American Economic Review

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, Quarterly Journal of Economics

Quarterly Journal of Economics

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, Review of Economic Studies

Review of Economic Studies

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, American Political Science Review

American Political Science Review

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, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of the European Economic Association, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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, and others. As of June 2011, he is ranked #1 in Russia by REPEC academic citation service.

He has a fortnightly column in The Moscow Times and a weekly column in Vedomosti (in Russian) and occasional contributions to major international and Russian media outlets. He is the author of "Sonin.ru: Lessons of Economics" (in Russian), a book aimed to a wide audience.

Biography

Konstantin Sonin was born in Moscow. He received his MSc in 1995, and PhD from Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University

Moscow State University

Lomonosov Moscow State University , previously known as Lomonosov University or MSU , is the largest university in Russia. Founded in 1755, it also claims to be one of the oldest university in Russia and to have the tallest educational building in the world. Its current rector is Viktor Sadovnichiy...

 in 1998. In 2000-01, Konstantin was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian studies at Harvard. In 2004-2005, he was a Member at the Institute for Advanced Study

Institute for Advanced Study

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 in Princeton

Princeton, New Jersey

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, USA. In September 2009 – March 2010 he worked as a Visiting Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences at the Kellogg School of Management

Kellogg School of Management

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 at Northwestern University

Northwestern University

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.

Awards and Memberships

• Research Medal of the Global Development Network, 2004 (1st), 2006, 2009 (2nd)
• B.L.Ovsievich Memorial Prize, 2009 (2nd)
• Award for a Best Economist of the Russian Academy of Science, 2002, 2003

Other Affilations and Membership

• New Economic School, Vice-Rector – Director of Undergraduate Studies
• Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Professor (by courtesy) and Research Director of the Center for Advanced Study,
• Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition, member of the Scientific Advisory Board
• Kiev School of Economics, member of the International Advisory Board
• Center for Economic Policy Research, London, UK, Research Fellow
• European Journal of the Political Economy, member of the Editorial Board
• Journal of Comparative Economics, member of the Editorial Board

Major publications

• Political Selection and the Persistence of Bad Government (with Daron Acemoglu
  Daron Acemoglu
  Kamer Daron Acemoğlu is a Turkish-American economist of Armenian origin. He is currently the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and winner of the 2005 John Bates Clark Medal. He is among the in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc...
  
   and Georgy Egorov), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125(4), 1511-1575, November 2010.
• Dictators and Their Viziers: Endogenizing the Loyalty-Competence Trade-off (with Georgy Egorov), Journal of European Economic Association, 9 (5), 903–930, October 2011.
• Determinants of Expropriation in the Oil Sector: A Theory and Evidence from Panel Data (with Sergei Guriev
  Sergei Guriev
  Sergei Guriev is a Russian economist. He is currently a Morgan Stanley Professor of Economics and a Rector at the New Economic School in Moscow, Russia. He joined NES in 1998 focusing on research and teaching and became a full-time permanent faculty member in 1999. He became the school's Rector in...
  
   and Anton Kolotilin) Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 27 (2), 301-323, August 2011. .
• Why Resource-Poor Dictators Allow Freer Media: A Theory and Evidence from Panel Data (with Sergei Guriev
  Sergei Guriev
  Sergei Guriev is a Russian economist. He is currently a Morgan Stanley Professor of Economics and a Rector at the New Economic School in Moscow, Russia. He joined NES in 1998 focusing on research and teaching and became a full-time permanent faculty member in 1999. He became the school's Rector in...
  
   and Georgy Egorov), American Political Science Review, 103 (4), 645—668, November 2009.
• Coalition Formation in Non-Democracies (with Daron Acemoglu
  Daron Acemoglu
  Kamer Daron Acemoğlu is a Turkish-American economist of Armenian origin. He is currently the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and winner of the 2005 John Bates Clark Medal. He is among the in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc...
  
  and Georgy Egorov), Review of Economic Studies, 75(4), 987—1009, December 2008.
• Why the Rich May Favor Protection of Property Rights, Journal of Comparative Economics, 31 (4), 715—731, 2003, symposium issue on Appropriate Institutions for Growth. (Reprinted in M.Henrekson and R. Douhan, eds., The Political Economy of Entrepreneurship, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2007.)