Academic Director

Denys Nizalov, Academic Director
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2006
Interests: regional economic development, development policies, rural poverty, labor market transaction costs, economies in transition, spatial aggregation
Courses taught at EERC: issues in Microeconomics, Information Economics, Statistics and Econometric
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Senior Economist

Olena Nizalova, Senior Economist
Ph.D.,Michigan State University, 2005
Interests: Labor economics, economics of aging, demography, development economics, applied econometrics, health economics.
Courses taught at EERC: Microeconomics, Terms I, II, V; Labor Economics II, Term V; Research & Economic Policy Analysis Workshop, Terms I.
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Pavlo Prokopovych, Senior Economist
Candidate of Sciences in Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Cybernetics, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, 1989;Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2005
Interests: Microeconomics, game theory, industrial organization.
Courses taught at EERC: Game Theory, Term II; Research & Economic Policy Analysis Workshop, Term III.
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Volodymyr Vahitov, Senior Economist
M.A., NaUKMA, 1999; Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 2008.
Interests: Regional Economics, Agglomeration Economies, Public Economics,Transition Economies, GIS.
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Oleksandr Shepotylo, Senior Economist
Ph.D., University of Maryland at College Park, 2006.
Interests: econometrics, institutional economics, international macroeconomics, international trade
Courses taught at EERC: macroeconomics; International Economics; Development Economics; Research & Economic Policy Analysis Workshop
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Hanna Vakhitova, Senior Economist
Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 2006
Interests: public economics, human resources
Courses taught at EERC: Public Economics; Research & Economic Policy Analysis Workshop
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Andriy Zapechelnyuk, Senior Economist
Ph.D., Stony Brook University, 2005
Interests: game theory, auction theory, industrial organization, bargaining theory
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Temporary Affiliated Senior Economist

Valentin Zelenyuk, Temporary Affiliated Senior Economist
Ph.D., Oregon State University, 2002
Interests: Productivity and efficiency analysis, industrial organization, production theory and applications; environmental and resource economics, urban economics, theory and measurement of economic growth, transition economics.
Courses taught at EERC: Empirical Workshop on Productivity Analysis I, II, Terms I, III; Advanced Econometrics I, Term III
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Andriy Bodnaruk, Temporary Affiliated Senior Economist
Ph.D., Stockholm School of Economics, 2005. Research Fellow, Maastricht University
Interests: Corporate governance, modern theory of the firm
Courses taught at EERC: Financial Economics I; Macroeconomics
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Mylovanov Tymofiy, Temporary Affiliated Senior Economist
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004. Post-Doc Researcher, University of Bonn
Interests: economic theory, behavioral economics, empirical industrial organization, econometrics, experimental economics
Courses taught at EERC: Industrial Organization I; Advanced Microeconomics I
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