First National Research University Higher School of Economics/University of Rome Tor Vergata Workshop in Applied Economics
The First National Research UniversityHigher School of Economics and University of Rome Tor Vergata Workshop in Applied Economics was held at the HSE University on June 13, 2019.
HSE Seminar on Political Economy: Eugenia Chernina (HSE) about actual and perceived place in the income distribution
Eugenia Chernina (HSE) explored how far individuals’ perceptions deviate from the true level of inequality and what factors shape the divergence.
HSE Seminar on Political Economy: Aleksey Oshchepkov (HSE) about Network Corruption
Aleksey Oshchepkov explored the network (or parochial) corruption which is conditional on the social connections between bureaucrats and private agents. Using data from the Life in Transition Survey (LiTS) which covers all post-socialist countries? Aleksey found that network corruption is more persistent over time, less related to contemporary national socio-economic and institutional characteristics and has stronger historical roots than market corruption