Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

Ekaterina Zhuravskaya is a Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics and EHESS and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research in the Public Policy and Development Economics programs.[1] She was formerly the academic director of the Center for Economic and Financial Research at the New Economic School in Moscow.[2] She was the 2018 recipient of the Birgit Grodal At New Economic School she held various professorships. She was given a biennial award as a "a European-based female economist who has made a significant contribution to the Economics profession."[3] In 2021 she was named a Fellow of the Econometric Society.[4]

Additionally, Zhuravskaya was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. The Institute is a think-tank-type independent research organization that has supported various economic scholars in the past in their research.[1] In the past, she has held roles at Columbia University where she was involved in the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, at the University of Michigan's William Davidson Institute where she was a research affiliate, and as a tax consultant at HIID. She also worked on the Russia Transition Project at HIID and a Banking Crisis Project at the Russian Privatization Center in Moscow.[1]

Zhuravskaya currently holds various roles in academia. She is Director of Studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences -- a role which she has held since 2010. She is also an associate member and associate chairwoman at the Paris School of Economics -- since 2010 and 2013, respectively. As noted above, she is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, UK. At the Centre for Economic Policy Research, she focuses on public economics and development economics. She is also the co-editor in Co-editor in chief of the Economic Journal (since 2019) and was Associate editor of the Journal of Public Economics (2008-2018)and Associate editor of the Journal of Comparative Economics (2007-2017). [1]

Her research focuses on empirical political economics and the economics of the media.[5] In recent years, she has studied factors that make ethnic diversity important for conflict and economic development, including the impact of forced mass movements of ethnic groups in Eastern Europe and from Eastern Europe to Central Asia during WWII, the impact of ethnic occupational segregation on ethnic tensions in the context of historical anti-Jewish violence in Europe, and the impact of political manipulation on ethnic conflict in Central Asia.[6] She has taught courses such as Advanced topics in empirical political economy and development, Introduction to political economy, Development economy, a research seminar "Themes in history and economic development", and Behavioral finance. She has also published research in an array of different microeconomic and macroeconomic disciplines. Here is a short list from her CV: Fiscal Federalism, arbitrage in the stock market, tax arrears in Russia concerning liquidity and federal redistribution, entrepreneurs in Russia, religions in Russia, Chinese entrepreneurs, bias in Russian commercial courts, decentralization, and political institutions, revision to privatization in socialist regimes, the media and political persuasion, forced migration, and the effects of social media on politics,