Center for Market Studies and Spatial Economics

• Our researchers have started a new direction of research of imperfect markets theory and their applications to international trade by thorough investigation of properties of the demand side and its role in behavioral patterns of economical equilibrium and reaction to external shocks.
• We have been developed the direction of research of agglomeration effects in Russia and inhomogeneity if distribution of economical industry and determination of the structure and laws of this distribution within empirical research.
• Our researchers have conducted analysis of impact of demand on main characteristics of the market in the setting of monopolistic competition.
• The Laboratory has started development of a theory of hybrid market structures.
• A new concept of equilibrium has been proposed within research in game theory and its applications to analysis of imperfect markets.

Education and career development:

• Members of the academic staff of the Laboratory are the main developers and tutors of courses for the bachelors program «Economics» and the masters program «Applied economics and mathematical methods» at the Higher School of Economics in Saint Petersburg.
• Best students are working at the Laboratory as research interns.

Collaborations: London School of Economics (United kingdom), University of Quebec in Montreal (Canada), Northwestern University (USA), University of Sussex (United Kingdom), University of Rennes (France), Keio University (Japan), University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg), KU Leuven (Belgium), University of Tokyo (Japan), Hitotsubashi University (Japan), Monash University (Australia): joint research