1/ New @voxeu.org column with Alex Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy, Oleksandr Talavera & Alessandra Guariglia: how war reshaped Ukraine’s scientific research 👇

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🚨 At #NICEP2025, I presented new research (with Christopher Hartwell & Matteo Moesli) on how politically connected private firms in Russia behave under authoritarian state capitalism.

TL;DR: they’re not private in any meaningful sense. 🧵👇

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1/ I'm excited to share that my new paper, “Unveiling the Power of State Activism in Times of Distress,” has been accepted for publication in Economic Analysis and Policy.

Here’s a brief summary of our main findings:

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(7) Despite higher publication counts, the quality of research in Crimea did not improve correspondingly, indicating that the funding is more about strategic messaging and resource mobilization than genuine academic advancement.

(6) The increased output is concentrated in natural sciences and engineering—fields closely connected to military R&D—suggesting that Crimea’s research environment is being leveraged to support the development of Russia’s war machine against Ukraine.

(3) Scholars in the occupied parts of Donetsk and Luhansk experienced a significant drop—about 38% below pre-war levels—in the number of publications after 2014.
This reduction was also reflected in lower citations per paper, pointing to a decline in research quality.

(1) I’m excited to share that our new paper with , “#Research productivity during the #Russian #war in #Ukraine,” has been published in Public Choice. It examines how the Russian war in Ukraine has reshaped academic productivity across approximately 15,000 Ukrainian institutions.

Great opportunity for young economists to get feedback and potentially get your research published in Eastern European Economics journal.