Andrey Tkachenko is an Assistant Professor in Economics and he received Ph.D. from Bocconi University. The main fields of his research interests are Industrial Organization and Public Economics, focusing on Auctions, Public Procurement, Mergers, and the Pharmaceutical Industry. He also studies the interaction of Public Procurement with processes of Development and Politics. Specifically, his research papers study factors affecting informal practices in Public Procurement under weak institutions, such as the tenure in office of politicians, the gender gap, the ownership structure of suppliers, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the research, he uses the microeconomic theory, causal inference methods, structural estimation, and online experiments. He has been teaching an applied econometrics course with a focus on causal inference methods.

Gender heterogeneity of bureaucrats in attitude to corruption: Evidence from list experiment, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 189, 217-233, doi: 10.1016/j.jebo.2021.06.034 (with Andrei Yakovlev and Polina Detkova).

Autocratic Governors in Public Procurement, European Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 61, 1-18, doi: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2019.101825 (with Daniil Esaulov).

The Changing Perceptions of Corruption during the COVID Pandemic in Russia, 2021, a chapter at “Procurement in Focus: Rules, Discretion, and Emergencies”, CEPR Press, editors: Oriana Bandiera, Erica Bosio, and Giancarlo Spagnolo (with Andrei Yakovlev, Polina Detkova, Pavel Pronin).

‘Sweet Deals’: State-owned Enterprises, Corruption and Repeated Contracts in Public Procurement, Economic Systems, 2017, 41(1), 52–67. doi: 10.1016/j.ecosys.2016.12.002 (with Andrei Yakovlev and Alexandra Kuznetsova).

ECON325: International Trade

ECON415: Industrial Organization