E. Zhuravskaya: Winner of the “National Award in Applied Economics 2016” in Russia

Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Associate Chair at the Paris School of Economics and Directeur d’études EHESS, has been granted the prestigious “2016 National Award in Applied Economics” in Russia, along with Evgeny Yakovlev, Professor and Director of the New Economic School Data Centre, for their paper ’The Unequal Enforcement Of Liberalization: Evidence From Russia’s Reform Of Business Regulation’ .
Through this paper, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya and Evgeny Yakovlev examined the Russian reform of the early 2000s aimed at decreasing regulatory costs for business, and how fighting corruption and bureaucratization can have a good impact on the Russian economy (see the synthesis in “5 articles... in 5 minutes!” nov 2013).
The jury also awarded with the honourable mention, another paper by Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, along with Irena Grosfeld, Emeritus member of PSE, for the following article: “Persistent Antimarket Culture: A Legacy of the Pale of Settlement after the Holocaust”.
The National Award ceremony is taking place on April 20, 2016 as part of the XVII April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, Moscow. The National Award in Applied Economics is given once every two years for outstanding published papers that analyses the Russian economy at the country, industry, regional, or company level.