Victor M. POLTEROVICH
Head of Laboratory,
Central Economics and Mathematics Institute (CEMI),
Russian Academy of Sciences;
Professor, First Vice Rector, New Economic School (NES), Moscow.
CURRICULUM VITAE Prepared: October 2008
Previous
and Present Positions; 
Other Affiliations, Honors, and Editorships;
Present Research Interests; Courses taught;
Born: December 27, 1937, Moscow,
USSR,
Married,
two children
Address: CEMI, RAS, Nakhimovskij
prospect 47, 117418 Moscow, Russia.
Previous and Present
Positions
Engineer, Junior, Senior
Scientific Research Fellow, Institute of Automation of Oil and Gas Industry,
Moscow, 1962-66;
Senior, Leading Scientific Research Fellow, Head of Laboratory of Mathematical
Economics, CEMI, Moscow, 1966-91, 1991-present;
Visiting Professor, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, fall of 1991;
Professor, New Economic School, Moscow, 1993-present,
Professor, Moscow State University, 1994 -2004.
Degrees
Diploma
(Engineering), Moscow Oil and Gas Institute,1962;
Diploma (Mathematics), Moscow State University, 1966;
Candidate of Science (Mathematics), CEMI, 1971;
Doctor of Science (Economics), CEMI,1991.
Other Affiliations,
Honors, and Editorships
Fellow, Econometric Society,
1989;
Walras - Bowley Lecture, 1991;
Member, Academia Europaea, 1992;
Correspondent member, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2000;
Member, Russian Academy of
Sciences, 2003;
Kondratiev Prize Laureate, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1992;
Kantorovich Prize Laureate, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1999.
Member, Program Committee
Fifth
World Congress of the Econometric Society, 1985;
European Meeting of the Econometric Society, 1991;
Tenth Annual Congress of EEA, 1995.
Member, Editorial Board
J. of
Mathematical Economics, 1985 - present;
Economica i Matematicheskie Metody (Russian), 1994 -present;
Economicheskaja Nauka Sovremennoj Rossii (Russian), 1998 - present;
Zhurnal Economicheskoi Teorii (Russian), 2004 - present;
Associate Editor, Econometrica, 1989 - 1995;
Mathematical Social Sciences, 1995 -1999.
Member, International Advisory
Board
EERC, Russia Economics
Research Program, 1995- present;
New Economic School, 1996-present;
European University at St.Petersburg, 1996-present.
Member, Governing Body
Global
Development Network, 2000- 2004.
Member, Executive Committee
International
Economic Association, 2005- present
Present Research
Interests
1.Theory
of Economic Reforms,
2. Institutional Economics,
3. Economic Dynamics
Courses taught
At the New Economic School
Money,
Inflation and Economic Growth; Advanced Macroeconomics; Transition;
International Trade; Theory of Economic Reforms.
At the Moscow State University
Elements of General Equilibrium Theory; Theories of Unemployment and Inflation;
Macroeconomics.
·
"A Model of Resource Redistribution", Economics and
Mathematical Methods, 1970, v.6, №4, p.583-593 (in Russian, translated in
Matekon, 1971)
·
"Economic Equilibrium and Optimum", Economics and
Mathematical Methods, 1973, v.9, №5, p.838-845 (in Russian, translated in
Matekon,1974-1975)
·
"A Monotonicity Criterion for Demand Functions", (with
L.Mitjushin), Economics and Mathematical Methods, 1978, v.14, №1 (in
Russian), [PDF, 162 K],[ PDF,
translated in English, 227 K]
·
"Equilibrium Trajectories of Economic Growth", Econometrica,
1983, v.51, №3, p.693-730
·
"Gross Substitutability of Point-to-Set Correspondences",
(with V.A.Spivak), Journal of Mathematical Economics, 1983, v.11, №2,
p.117-140
·
"Economic Equilibrium under Flexible Rationing", Kibernetika,
1986, №1, p.109-115 (in Russian, translated in Cybernetics, 1986)
·
"An Evolutionary Model of the Interaction of the Processes of
Creation and Adoption of Technologies", (with G.Henkin), Economics and
Mathematical Methods, 1988, v.24, №6, p.1071-1083 (in Russian) [PDF, 1070 K]
·
"Equilibrated States and Optimal Allocations of Resources under
Rigid Prices", Journal of Mathematical Economics, 1990, v.19, №3,
p.255-268
·
"Economic Equilibrium and Economic Mechanisms", Moscow, Nauka,
1990, (in Russian)
·
"Schumpeterian Dynamics as a Nonlinear Wave Theory", (with G.
Henkin), Journal of Mathematical Economics, 1991, v.20, №6, p.551-590
·
"Rationing, Queues, and Black Markets", Econometrica,
1993, v.61, №1, p.1-28
·
"Economic Reform in Russia in 1992: The Government Battles Labor
Collectives", Journal of International and Comparative Economics,
1995, v.4, p.265-287
·
" Towards the Theory of Privatization", Working Paper WP/96/001,
CEMI, 1996 [Abstract russ and engl.] [Full text, PDF-file in ZIP, 189 K]
·
"Transformational Recesssion in Russia", Economics and
Mathematical Methods, 1996, v.32, №1, p.54-69 (in Russian) [PDF, 550 K]
·
"Factors of Corruption", Economics and Mathematical Methods,
1998, v.34, №3, p.30-39 (in Russian)
·
"A difference-differential analogue of the Burgers equation and
some models of economic development" (with G.Henkin), Discrete and
Continuous Dynamical Systems, 1999, v.5, №4, p.697-728
·
"Modern Economics Education in TEs: Technology Transfer to
Russia" (with G. Ofer), Comparative Economic Studies, 2000, v.42,
№2, p.5-35
·
"Institutional Traps", In: L.R. Klein and M. Pomer (eds).
The new Russia. Transition Gone Awry. Stanford University Press, Stanford,
California, 2001, p.93-116
·
"Transplantation of Economic Institutions", Economics of
Contemporary Russia, 2001, №3, p.24-50 (in Russian) [PDF,
303 K]
·
"Tolerance of Cheating: An Analysis Across Countries", (with
J.Magnus at al), The Journal of Economic Education, 2002, v.3,
№2, p.125-135
·
"Paradoxes of Russian Labor Markets and the Theory of Labor Managed
Enterprises", Economics and Mathematical Methods, 2003, v.39, №2,
p.210-217 (in Russian)
·
"Institutional Traps: Is There a Way Out?", Social Sciences,
2005, v.36, №1, p.30-40
· "Contractual Saving for Housing: A Mortgage Institution for Russia", (with O.Starkov, E.Chernykh), Voprosy Economiki, 2005, №1, p.63-86 (in Russian) [PDF, 146 K]
· "An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Policy. Part I. The Experience of Fast Development", (with V.Popov), Voprosy Economiki, 2006, №7, p.4-23 (in Russian) [Abstracts Eng and Rus]
· "The Evolutionary Theory of Economic Policy. Part II. The Necessity of Timely Switching", (with V.Popov), Voprosy Economiki, 2006, №8, p.46-64 (in Russian) [Abstracts Eng and Rus]
· " Economic Policy, Quality of Institutions, and Mechanisms of Resource Curse", (with V.Popov, A.Tonis ), Moscow, State University - Higher School of Economics, 2007, (in Russian) [PDF, 587 K]
· "Democratization, Institutional Quality and Economic Growth", (with V.Popov), In: N.Dinello, V.Popov (eds.). Political Institutions and Development. Failed Expectations and Renewed Hopes. Edwards Edgar Publishing. Chapter 3, 2007
·
"Creating Mortgage Markets for a Catching up Economy: a Problem of
Institutional Transplantation", (with O.Starkov), Moscow, Nauka,
2007, 196 pp. (in Russian: Формирование ипотеки в
догоняющих экономиках: проблема
трансплантации (в соавторстве с О.Ю.Старковым). М.: Наука, 2007. 196 с.
[Введение,
Оглавление] )
·
"Elements of Reform Theory", Moscow, Ekonomika,
2007, 446 pp. (in Russian: Элементы теории реформ. М.:
Экономика, 2007. 446 с. [Введение,
Оглавление] )
·
"Institutional Trap", The New Palgrave Dictionary of
Economics, Second Edition, Forthcoming 2008 [PDF,
53 K]