Dmitriy Vorobyev, MSc, MA, Ph.D.

Dmitriy Vorobyev is an internal member of ERUNI Open Research Ostrava and an external member of the Department of Economics and Economic Policy at the European Research University. He received his Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia) and then completed his Ph.D. in Economics at the prestigious CERGE-EI at Charles University in Prague. After completing his doctoral studies, he continued his academic career as an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Economics and Management at the Ural Federal University (Yekaterinburg, Russia) and as a research fellow at the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Wisconsin, USA). His current research interests are in political economy and public economics, both theoretical and empirical, focusing on such issues as the role of information in political processes, the effectiveness of political institutions, corruption, and others. His research has been published in highly ranked academic journals, overwhelmingly in the first quartile of Web of Science with a significant impact factor. His teaching interests include microeconomics, game theory, information economics and public economics. He has worked as a researcher on numerous research projects and as a mentor and senior researcher at the European Research University.