Alexander S. Nesterov
- Associate Professor:HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management / Department of Economics
- Laboratory Head:HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management / International Laboratory of Game Theory and Decision Making
- Alexander S. Nesterov has been at HSE University since 2016.
Responsibilities
Member of the HSE St.Petersburg Academic Council (from 2018)
Member of the HSE St.Petersburg Scientific commission (from 2021)
Education and Degrees
- 2016
PhD
Humboldt University of Berlin - 2009
Masters in MA in Economics
European University in St. Petersburg, Economics - 2006
Bachelor's
Saint Petersburg State University
Awards and Accomplishments
Winner of the HSE University Best Russian Research Paper Competition – 2022
Courses (2023/2024)
- Mathematical methods in economics: game theory and mechanism design (Postgraduate course’s programme; 2 year, 1 semester)Eng
- Research Seminar I (Bachelor’s programme; St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management; 3 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2022/2023)
- Research Seminar 1 (Master’s programme; St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Research Seminar "Application of Mathematical Methods in Economic Analysis II" (Master’s programme; St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management; 2 year, 1-3 module)Eng
- Research Seminar I (Bachelor’s programme; St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management; 3 year, 2-4 module)Rus
Courses (2021/2022)
- Microeconomics II (Master’s programme; St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Research Seminar "Business Economics" (Bachelor’s programme; St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management; 3 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Economics and Mathematics" (Bachelor’s programme; St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management; 3 year, 2-4 module)Rus
Courses (2020/2021)
- Mechanism Design (Master’s programme; St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management; 2 year, 1 module)Eng
- Research Seminar "Application of Mathematical Methods in Economic Analysis" (Master’s programme; St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Business Economics" (Bachelor’s programme; St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management; 3 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Economics and Mathematics" (Bachelor’s programme; St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management; 3 year, 2-4 module)Rus
Courses (2019/2020)
- Modern Methods of Decision Making (Master’s programme; St. Petersburg School of Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science ; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Modern Methods of Decision Making (Master’s programme; St. Petersburg School of Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science ; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Application of Mathematical Methods in Economic Analysis" (Master’s programme; St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Economics and Mathematics" (Bachelor’s programme; St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management; 3 year, 2-4 module)Rus
Courses (2018/2019)
- Behavioral and Experimental Economics and Finance (Bachelor’s programme; St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management; 3 year, 2 module)Eng
- Research Seminar "Application of Mathematical Methods in Economic Analysis" (Master’s programme; St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
Courses (2017/2018)
- Introduction to Behavioral and Experimental Economics (Minor; St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management; 1, 2 module)Eng
- Research Seminar in Applied Economics (Bachelor’s programme; St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
20234
- Article Huber C., Dreber A., Adaeva X., Nesterov A. S., et a. Competition and moral behavior: A meta-analysis of forty-five crowd-sourced experimental designs // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2023. Vol. 120. No. 23 doi
- Article Kondratev A., Ianovski E., Nesterov A. S. How Should We Score Athletes and Candidates: Geometric Scoring Rules // Operations Research. 2023. P. 1-19. doi
- Article Bonkoungou S., Alexander Nesterov. Incentives in matching markets: counting and comparing manipulating agents // Theoretical Economics. 2023. Vol. 18. No. 3. P. 965-991.
- Article Nesterov A. S., Минибаев К. Р., Ломакин А. С. Modifications of Boston, Taiwanese and Chinese mechanisms are not comparable via counting manipulating students // Economics Letters. 2023 (in press)
20221
Article Kondratev A., Nesterov A. S. Minimal envy and popular matchings // European Journal of Operational Research. 2022. Vol. 296. No. 3. P. 776-787. doi
20212
- Article Bonkoungou S., Nesterov A. S. Comparing school choice and college admissions mechanisms by their strategic accessibility // Theoretical Economics. 2021. No. 16(3). P. 881-909. doi
- Preprint Bonkoungou S., Nesterov A. S. Incentives In Matching Markets: Counting And Comparing Manipulating Agents / National Research University Higher School of Economics. Series WP BRP "Basic research program". 2021. No. 249.
20203
- Preprint Nesterov A. S., Bonkoungou S. Comparing School Choice and College Admission Mechanisms By Their Immunity to Strategic Admissions / Cornell University. Series Theoretical Economics "arxiv.org". 2020.
- Article Kondratev A., Nesterov A. S. Measuring majority power and veto power of voting rules // Public Choice. 2020. Vol. 183. P. 187-210. doi
- Preprint Nesterov A. S., Bonkoungou S. Reforms Meet Fairness Concerns In School And College Admissions / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series WP BRP "Economics/EC". 2020. doi
20192
- Preprint Ivanov D., Nesterov A. S. Identifying Bid Leakage In Procurement Auctions: Machine Learning Approach / Cornell University. Series Economics "arxiv.org". 2019.
- Chapter Dmitry Ivanov, Alexander Nesterov. Identifying Bid Leakage in Procurement Auctions: Machine Learning Approach, in: EC '19 Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2019. doi P. 69-70. doi
20172
- Article Kesten O., Kurino M., Nesterov A. S. Efficient Lottery Design // Social Choice and Welfare. 2017. Vol. 48. No. 1. P. 31-57. doi
- Article Nesterov A. S. Fairness and efficiency in strategy-proof object allocation mechanisms // Journal of Economic Theory . 2017. No. 170. P. 145-168. doi
Two Qualifications, Projects with 18 Companies, and Studies in English: The Unique Advantages of the International Bachelor's in Business and Economics
The International Bachelor's in Business and Economics opened at HSE University-St Petersburg a year ago. The programme offers English-taught studies in both economics and management at the same time. It is supported by corporate partners: VK, Gazprom, Sberbank, and others. Victor Krakovich, Academic Supervisor of the programme, explains how the educational process in the programme is structured.
St.Petersburg Economic seminar (HSE, EU, PDMI) on May, 12: Alexander S. Nesterov (HSE in St.Petersburg)
Topic: Robustness to manipulations
Date & Time: May, 12; 18:00 - 19:00
Where: St.Petersburg, Gagarinskaya St, 6, Gagarinsky lecture hall (EUSP) & Webinar online platform
St.Petersburg Economic seminar (HSE, EU, PDMI) on April, 1: Alexander Nesterov (HSE)
Topic: Measuring Manipulations In Matching Markets By Counting Manipulating Agents
Date & Time: April, 1; 18:00 - 19:00
Where: online platform Zoom
HSE Researchers Receive Grants in Russian Science Foundation Competitions
The Russian Science Foundation announced the results of its 2019 competitions for support from the Presidential Research Project Programme. One competition was for grants in support of research initiatives by early career researchers, and another was in support of research conducted by research groups headed by early career scholars.