Michael Rochlitz is Professor of Institutional Economics at the Faculty of Business Studies and Economics, University of Bremen, as well as associate fellow at the Center for the Study of Institutions and Development at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. His research investigates the interrelation between political institutions, economic development and societal change, with a regional focus on Russia and China. His work has been published, among others, in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Comparative Political Studies, the European Journal of Political Economy, Economic Systems, Post-Soviet Affairs, Russian Politics, Eurasian Geography and Economics, and the Russian Journal of Economics.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

"At the Crossroads: Putin's Third Presidential Term and Russia's Institutions," Political Studies Review 13(1), 2015: 59-68.

"Corporate Raiding and the Role of the State in Russia," Post-Soviet Affairs 30(2-3), 2014: 89-114.

"Performance Incentives and Economic Growth: Regional Officials in Russia and China," co-authored with Vera Kulpina, Tom Remington, and Andrei Yakovlev, HSE Basic Research Program Working Paper, No. 18/PS/2014, 2014.

Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/michaelrochlitz/.

Email: mrochlitz@hse.ru.