The research Center aims at obtaining meaningful results in economic theory and empirical research.
The research is based on a new class of models of market systems with free entry.
Our main goals
- the study of new possibilities of the monopolistically competitive markets under removal of restrictions on the constant elasticity of substitution between goods in consumption;
- extended analysis of the model of monopolistically competitive markets by including it in models of endogenous growth and multi-product output;
- study of the nature of asymmetric solutions agglomeration model of core-periphery type;
- empirical study of Russian interregional and international trade accounting for heterogenity of firms, sectors and trade flows;
- development and testing of computable general equilibrium models in the regions.
Giuseppe Arbia's talk at the St. Petersburg Economic Seminar(online)
On May 21 at 18:00 Giuseppe Arbia (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) will present the report “On spatial regression models estimated using crowdsourcing, web-scraping or other unconventionally collected Big Data”. The seminar will be held via Zoom. To get access, please send a request to spb.economic.seminar@gmail.com (please indicate your name and occupation).
Paper by CMSSE leading research fellows Kristian Behrens and Yasusada Murata accepted for publication to the The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Our colleagues' Kristian Behrens' and Yasusada Murata's paper "Quantifying the gap between equilibrium and optimum under monopolistic competition" (joint with G. Mion and J. Suedekum) has been accepted to The Quarterly Journal of Economics. Congratulations!
International events in the light of the ongoing developments in the spread of Covid-19
On March 7, HSE University instituted a number of protective measures in order to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus and the disease it causes, COVID-19. Due to this, the Second International Workshop “Market Studies and Spatial Economics” has been cancelled. The 9th International conference 'Industrial Organization and Spatial Economics' is postponed until the Fall (more information will be available later).
