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Konstantin Sonin is SUEK Professor of Economics at the New Economic School in Moscow. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Moscow State University, was a Post-doctoral Fellow at Harvard in 2000–01 and a visiting member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 2004-2005. His research interests include political economics, transition and development, economic institutions, and economics of media.

In 2002 and 2003, Sonin was awarded the Best Economist award by the President of the Russian Academy of Science. In 2004, he received the Gold Medal of the Global Development Network for his paper on the sources of political demand for bad institutions. His academic papers appeared in leading academic journals such as Review of Economic Studies, American Political Science Review, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Journal of Comparative Economics, and Journal of Economics and Management Strategy.

His column on economics and politics appears weekly in "Vedomosti", the leading Russian business daily, published jointly by WSJ and FT, and forthnightly in The Moscow Times, the main Russia's English-language newspaper. He is a frequent contributor to Russian leading printed and electronic media; his LiveJournal is one of most widely read Russian blogs on economics, politics, and business.
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Gehlbach, Scott, Konstantin Sonin and Ekatherina Zhuravskaya. Forthcoming. Businessman Candidates. American Journal of Political Science.
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Guriev, Sergei, Anton Kolotilin and Konstantin Sonin. Forthcoming. Determinants of Expropriation in the Oil Sector: A Theory and Evidence from Panel Data. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization.
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Acemoglu, Daron, Georgy Egorov and Konstantin Sonin. Forthcoming. Dynamics and Stability of Constitutions, Coalitions, and Clubs. American Economic Review.
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Sonin, Konstantin. Forthcoming. Provincial Protectionism. Journal of Comparative Economics.
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Acemoglu, Daron, Georgy Egorov and Konstantin Sonin. 2011. Political Model of Social Evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(suppl. 4): 21292-21296.
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Egorov, Georgy and Konstantin Sonin. 2011. Dictators and their Viziers: Endogenizing the Loyalty-Competence Trade-off. Journal of European Economic Association. 9(5): 903-930.
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Acemoglu, Daron, Georgy Egorov and Konstantin Sonin. 2010. Political Selection and Persistence of Bad Governments. Quarterly Journal of Economics. 125(4): 1511-1575.
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Egorov, Georgy, Sergei Guriev and Konstantin Sonin. 2009. Why Resource-Poor Dictators Allow Freer Media: A Theory and Evidence from Panel Data. American Political Science Review. 103(4): 645-668.
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Acemoglu, Daron, Georgy Egorov and Konstantin Sonin. 2009. Do Juntas Lead to Personal Rule?. American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings. 99(2): 298-303.
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Guriev, Sergei and Konstantin Sonin. 2009. Dictators and Oligarchs: A Dynamic Theory of Contested Property Rights. Journal of Public Economics. 93(1-2): 1-13.
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Acemoglu, Daron, Georgy Egorov and Konstantin Sonin. 2008. Coalition Formation in Non-Democracies. Review of Economic Studies. 75(4): 987-1009.
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Schwarz, Michael and Konstantin Sonin. 2008. A Theory of Brinkmanship, Conflicts, and Commitments. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization. 24(1): 161-183.
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Lambert-Mogiliansky, Ariane, Konstantin Sonin and Ekatherina Zhuravskaya. 2007. Are Russian Commercial Courts Biased? Evidence from a Bankruptcy Law Transplant . Journal of Comparative Economics. 35(2): 254-277.
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Lambert-Mogiliansky, Ariane and Konstantin Sonin. 2006. Collusive Market-Sharing and Corruption in Procurement. Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. 15(4): 883-908.
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Schoors, Koen and Konstantin Sonin. 2005. Passive Creditors. International Finance. 8(1): 57-86.
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Mikoucheva, Anna and Konstantin Sonin. 2004. Information Revelation and Efficiency in Auctions. Economics Letters. 83(3): 277-284.
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Sonin, Konstantin. 2003. Why the Rich May Favor Poor Protection of Property Rights. Journal of Comparative Economics. 31(4): 15-31.
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Acemoglu, Daron, Georgy Egorov and Konstantin Sonin. A Political Theory of Populism.
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Khovanskaya, Irina, Konstantin Sonin and Maria Yudkevich. A Dynamic Model of the Research University.
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Gregory, Paul R., Philipp J. H. Schröder and Konstantin Sonin. Dictators, Repression and the Median Citizen: An 'Eliminations Model' of Stalin's Terror (Data from the NKVD Archives) .
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Acemoglu, Daron, Georgy Egorov and Konstantin Sonin. Equilibria Refinement in Dynamic Voting Games.
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Egorov, Georgy and Konstantin Sonin. The Killing Game: Reputation and Knowledge in Non-Democratic Succession.
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Gehlbach, Scott and Konstantin Sonin. Government Control of the Media.
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