Alexander Viktorovich Karpov

Assistant Professor:Faculty of Economic Sciences / Department of Theoretical Economics
Senior Research Fellow:International Laboratory of Decision Choice and Analysis

Alexander Viktorovich Karpov has been at HSE University since 2007.

Education and Degrees

2012
Candidate of Sciences* (PhD) in Mathematical and Instrumental Methods in Economics
HSE University
Thesis Title: Ordinal models for proportional representation
2012
Doctoral programme in Mathematical economics
HSE University, Economics
2009
Master's in Economics
HSE University, Economics
2007
Bachelor's in Economics
HSE University, Economics

* Candidate of Sciences
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.

Awards and Accomplishments

Best Teacher – 2012

Young Faculty Support Program (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "Future Professoriate" (2018-2019)
Category "Future Professoriate" (2015)
Category "New Researchers" (2011-2012)

Student Term / Thesis Papers

Master
E. Manzhikov «Ambiguity Models for Extended Preferences». Faculty of Economic Sciences, 2018
A. Yul`yakshina «Pricing and Competition in Markets with Network Structure of Demand». Faculty of Economic Sciences, 2014

Full list of of student term / thesis papers

Courses (2013/2014)

Behaviorial and Evolutionary Microeconomic Analisys (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Behaviorial and Evolutionary Microeconomic Analisys (Bachelor’s programme; School of Statistics, Data Analysis and Demography; "Статистика и бухгалтерский учет", "Статистика и анализ данных", "Статистика и демография"; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Industrial Organization Theory (Master’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Microeconomics (Advanced Level, Microeconomics-3) (Master’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; field of study "080100.68 Экономика", field of study "080100.68 Экономика"; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus

Courses (2012/2013)

Applied Microeconomic Policy (Master’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
Behavioral Economics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 3 year, 3 module)Rus
Behaviorial and Evolutionary Microeconomic Analisys (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Behaviorial and Evolutionary Microeconomic Analisys (Bachelor’s programme; School of Statistics, Data Analysis and Demography; "Статистика и анализ данных", "Статистика и демография", "Статистика и бухгалтерский учет"; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Industrial Organization Theory (Master’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Microeconomics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Microeconomics (Advanced Level, Microeconomics-3) (Master’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; field of study "080100.68 Экономика", field of study "080100.68 Экономика"; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Research Seminar "Microeconomics and Microeconomic Policy" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; spec. "Microeconomics: Theory and Policy Application"; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Research Seminar "Microeconomics and Microeconomic Policy" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus

Courses (2011/2012)

Behaviorial and Evolutionary Microeconomic Analisys (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Behaviorial and Evolutionary Microeconomic Analisys (Bachelor’s programme; School of Statistics, Data Analysis and Demography; "Статистика и анализ данных", "Статистика и демография"; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Methods of Optimization (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 2 year, 1 module)Rus
Methods of Optimization (Bachelor’s programme; School of Statistics, Data Analysis and Demography; 2 year, 1 module)Rus
Microeconomics (Advanced Level, Microeconomics-3) (Master’s programme; School of Statistics, Data Analysis and Demography; 1 year, 1 semester)Rus
Microeconomics (Advanced Level, Microeconomics-3) (Master’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; "Public and Municipal Finance", "Институциональная экономика", "Socio-economics and management of intangible assets", "History and Methdology of Economic Science", "Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policy", "Экономика труда"; 1 year, 2, 4 module)Rus
Microeconomics (Advanced Level, Microeconomics-3) (Master’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; "Экономика труда", "History and Methdology of Economic Science", "Институциональная экономика", "Socio-economics and management of intangible assets", "Public and Municipal Finance", "Банки и банковская деятельность", "Финансовые рынки", "Управление рисками и актуарные методы"; field of study "080100.68 Экономика"; 1 year, 2 module)Rus
Social choice theory (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 2 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
Social choice theory (Bachelor’s programme; School of Statistics, Data Analysis and Demography; 2 year, 2, 3 module)Rus

Courses (2010/2011)

Behaviorial and Evolutionary Microeconomic Analisys (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Methods of Optimization (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 1 year, 4 module)Rus
Methods of Optimization (Bachelor’s programme; School of Statistics, Data Analysis and Demography; 1 year, 4 module)Rus
Microeconomics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Microeconomics (Bachelor’s programme; School of Applied Mathematics and Information Science; 1 year, 3 module)Rus
Microeconomics-3 (Master’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; spec. "Институциональная экономика"; 1 year, 1, 2 semester)Rus
Modelling in Microeconomics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Modelling in Microeconomics (Bachelor’s programme; School of Statistics, Data Analysis and Demography; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus

Editorial board membership

2017: Member of the Editorial Board (Associate Editor), Group Decision and Negotiation.

Conferences

2014
Comparative Analysis of Business and Management: Dynamics of Business Transition (Kyoto). Presentation: Diversity, Innovation and Network
Kyoto Institute of Economic Research Seminar (Kyoto). Presentation: Russian enterprises meet sanctions

Dissertation for a degree of Candidate of Science

2012

A. V. Karpov Ординальные модели систем пропорционального представительства

Publications³³

Article Karpov A. V. A necessary and sufficient condition for uniqueness consistency in the stable marriage matching problem // Economics Letters. 2019. Vol. 178. P. 63-65. doi
Article Karpov A. V. On the Number of Group-Separable Preference Profiles // Group Decision and Negotiation. 2019. Vol. 28. No. 3. P. 501-517. doi
Preprint Karpov A. V. An Informational Basis for Voting Rules / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series WP BRP "Economics/EC". 2018. No. 188.
Article Karpov A. V. Generalized Knockout Tournament Seedings // International Journal of Computer Science in Sport. 2018. Vol. 17. No. 2. P. 113-127. doi
Preprint Karpov A. V. Generalized knockout tournaments / Издательский дом ВШЭ. Series WP7 "Математические методы анализа решений в экономике, бизнесе и политике". 2017. No. 03.
Article Karpov A. V. Preference diversity orderings // Group Decision and Negotiation. 2017. Vol. 26. No. 4. P. 753-774. doi
Preprint Karpov A. V. Price competition and limited attention / Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Series Economics Discussion Papers "Economics Discussion Papers". 2017. No. 2017-89.
Article Karpov A. V. A new knockout tournament seeding method and its axiomatic justification // Operations Research Letters. 2016. Vol. 44. No. 6. P. 706-711. doi
Preprint Karpov A. V. Evolutionary Justification of Plagiarism / University Library of Munich. Series "Munich Personal RePEc Archive". 2016. No. 70976.
Article Karpov A. V. Health care inequality, patient mobility and welfare // Economics Bulletin. 2016. Vol. 36. No. 2. P. 1000-1009.
Preprint Karpov A. V. Preference diversity orderings / Heidelberg University. Series DP600 "AWI Discussion Paper Series". 2016. No. DP610.
Preprint Karpov A. V. A theory of knockout tournament seedings / Heidelberg University. Series DP600 "AWI Discussion Paper Series". 2015. No. 600.
Article Karpov A. V. Alliance incentives under the D’Hondt method // Mathematical Social Sciences. 2015. Vol. 74. P. 1-7. doi
Preprint Karpov A. V. Apparentement incentives under the d’Hondt method / Kyoto institute of economic research, Kyoto University. Series 896 "KIER Discussion paper series". 2014. No. 896.
Article Karpov A. V. Equal weights coauthorship sharing and the Shapley value are equivalent // Journal of Informetrics. 2014. Vol. 8. No. 1. P. 71-76. doi
Preprint Karpov A. V. Patient Mobility, Health Care Quality, Welfare And Regulation / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series WP BRP "Economics/EC". 2014. No. 64.
Article Aleskerov F. T., Karpov A. V. A new single transferable vote method and its axiomatic justification // Social Choice and Welfare. 2013. Vol. 40. No. 3. P. 771-786. doi
Preprint Karpov A. V. Equal Weights Coauthorship Sharing and Shapley Value are Equivalent / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series WP BRP "Science, Technology and Innovation". 2012. No. 03.
Preprint Karpov A. V., Yurkov S. Generalized bankruptcy problem / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series FE "Financial Economics". 2012. No. 08.
Article Карпов А. В. Влияние процедуры выборов в совет директоров на деятельность компании // Журнал Новой экономической ассоциации. 2012. Т. 16. № 4. С. 10-25.
Chapter Карпов А. В. Модель голосования на выборах совета директоров акционерной компании // В кн.: XII Международная научная конференция по проблемам развития экономики и общества. В четырех книгах. Книга 2 / Отв. ред.: Е. Г. Ясин. Кн. 2. М. : Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2012. С. 266-273.
Preprint Aleskerov F. T., Karpov A. V. A New Method of the Single Transferable Vote and its Axiomatic Justification / University of Turku. Series - "Public Choice Research Centre University of Turku Working Papers". 2011. No. 42.
Article Алескеров Ф. Т., Карпов А. В. Аксиоматическое описание правила передачи голосов // Экономический журнал Высшей школы экономики. 2011. Т. 15. № 2. С. 135-154.
Book Микроэкономика. Поведение, институты и эволюция / Пер. с англ.: К. А. Букин, Н. В. Шилова, Д. С. Карабекян, А. В. Карпов; науч. ред.: М. И. Левин. М. : Издательство «Дело» РАНХ, 2011.
Article Карпов А. В. Модель голосования на выборах совета директоров акционерной компании // Журнал Новой экономической ассоциации. 2011. № 12. С. 10.
Article Карпов А. В., Вольский В. И. Применение различных вариантов правила передачи голосов // Полития: Анализ. Хроника. Прогноз. 2011. № 2. С. 162-174.
Chapter Карпов А. В. Стратегическое голосование: случай двух крупных игроков // В кн.: Труды семинара «Математическое моделирование политических систем и процессов» / Под общ. ред.: А. С. Ахременко. Вып. 1. М. : Издательство Московского университета, 2011. Гл. 10. С. 157-164.
Article Карпов А. В. Теорема о невозможности в задаче пропорционального представительства // Экономический журнал Высшей школы экономики. 2009. Т. 13. № 4. С. 596-615.
Article Karpov A. V. Measurement of disproportionality in proportional representation systems // Mathematical and Computer Modelling. 2008. Vol. 48. No. 9-10. P. 1421-1438. doi
Article Карпов А. В., Алескеров Ф. Т. Брамс "Математика и демократия: совершенствование процедур голосования и справедливого дележа" // Моделирование в социально-политической сфере. 2008. № 1(2)
Article Карпов А. В. Измерение Представительности парламента в пропорциональных избирательных системах // Моделирование в социально-политической сфере. 2008. № 1(2). С. 10-21.
Chapter Карпов А. В. Измерение представительности парламента в системах пропорционального представительства // В кн.: VIII Международная научная конференция. Модернизация экономики и общественное развитие: В 3 кн. / Отв. ред.: Е. Г. Ясин. Кн. 3. М. : Издательский дом ГУ-ВШЭ, 2007. С. 184-199.
Preprint Карпов А. В. Измерение представительности парламента в системах пропорционального представительства / Высшая школа экономики. Серия WP7 "Математические методы анализа решений в экономике, бизнесе и политике". 2006. № 04.

Research interests

- Social Choice theory;

- Proportional representation systems

Recently explored problems

- axiomatics of voice transfer rule, unique method theorem satisfying the set of axioms

Current research

- game-theory justification of proportional representation systems;
- proportional representation model with unequal number of votes through the example of voting of the board of directors of a stock-company.

Conference Participations

Timetable for today

Full timetable

Sep

2018

Lecture by A. Karpov on "On the Number of Separable Preference Profiles"

On Wednesday, September 19 the all-Russian seminar "Mathematical methods of decision analysis in economics, finance and politics" was held. A. Karpov gave a lecture on "On the Number of Separable Preference Profiles".

Dec

2017

Neighbours: Who is Close to HSE in Rankings. Economics

We continue talking about universities that are alongside HSE in the 51–100 group in various subject areas in the QS ranking. Today we have economists speaking about their ‘neighbours in the ranking’.

Sep

2017

School "Decision making in network context" and International Workshop "The 7th Murat Sertel Workshop on Economic Design, Decision, Institutions, and Organization" were held at DeCAn lab

DeCAn lab organized two events which were held from September 25 to September 28 - a school "Decision making in network context" (September 25-26, 2017) and an international workshop "The 7th Murat Sertel Workshop on Economic Design, Decision, Institutions, and Organization" (September 27-28, 2017). DeCAn faculty took part in organizing and holding these events.

Sep

2015

On Wednesday, September 16 the all-Russian seminar "Mathematical methods of decision analysis in economics, finance and politics" was held.

Speaker: Alexander Karpov (Heidelberg University, Germany; National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia )
Title: A theory of knockout tournament seedings