Irina Bakalova
- Irina Bakalova has been at HSE University since 2010.
Education and Degrees
- 2019
PhD
KU Leuven - 2014
Master's in Economics
HSE University - 2012
Bachelor's
HSE University
Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience
2018 - EAERE-FEEM-VIU European Summer School on Climate Change Assessment: Economic Models and Evaluation Criteria, Venice, Italy.
2018 - Alliance Graduate Summer School on Research Methods in Sustainable Development, Paris, France.
2017 - EIT Raw Materials PhD Summer School on Circular Economy, Geetbets, Belgium.
2015 - ETH Short Course on Translating Analytical Theories into Simulation Model, Zurich, Switzerland.
Employment history
2020 - current – Postdoctoral fellow at the International Laboratory for Macroeconomic Analysis, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow.
2021 – Postdoctoral fellow in Environmental Science and Engineering at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge.
2018 - 2020 – Consultant at the World Bank (Agriculture Global Practice), Moscow.
2012 - 2014 – Teaching assistant (undergraduate macroeconomics) at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow.
2010 - 2014 – Trainee researcher at the Laboratory for Macroeconomic Analysis, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow.
2012 – Junior Research Fellow at the Department of Macroeconomics and Finance, Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy, Moscow.

Young Faculty Support Program (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "New Researchers" (2013-2014)
International conferences
2022 - XXIII Yasin International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development (online), “Can adaptation transfers ensure the stability of global cooperation on solar geoengineering?”
2021 - Climate Engineering in Context (online), "Stable and Efficient International Agreement on Solar Geoengineering."
2021 - European Public Choice Society annual meeting (online), "Working from home and the potential of reverse brain drain."
2020 - 25nd Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (online), "The distributional effects of different climate change damage channels and mitigation policies."
2020 - XXI April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development (online), "The distributional effects of different climate change damage channels and mitigation policies."
2018 - 6th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (Gothenburg), "Simulating the Impact of Heterogeneity on Stability and Effectiveness of International Environmental Agreements."
2018 - Tokyo-Moscow International Medical Forum (Tokyo), "Health impacts of bike-sharing system in Moscow."
2016 - 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (Zurich), "International Environmental Agreements with Asymmetric Countries: Effect of Heterogeneity on Stability and Effectiveness."
2013 - XIV April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development (Moscow), "Non-Keynesian Effects of Fiscal Policy in Russia."
Publications5
- Preprint Bakalova I., Berlinschi R., Fidrmuc J., Dzyuba Yuriy Alekseevich Y. COVID-19, Working from Home and the Potential Reverse Brain Drain / Global Labor Organization. Series "GLO Discussion Paper". 2021. No. 845.
- Article Bakalova I., Eyckmans J. Simulating the Impact of Heterogeneity on Stability and Effectiveness of International Environmental Agreements // European Journal of Operational Research. 2019. Vol. 277. No. 3. P. 1151-1162. doi
- Chapter Бакалова И. К. Некейнсианские эффекты фискальной политики: Россия, 1995–2011 гг // В кн.: XIV Апрельская международная научная конференция по проблемам развития экономики и общества: в 4-х книгах. Книга 1 / Отв. ред.: Е. Г. Ясин. М. : Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2014. С. 139-151.
- Chapter Бакалова И. К. Некейнсианские эффекты фискальной политики: Россия 1995–2008 // В кн.: Сборник лучших выпускных работ - 2012 / Науч. ред.: К. А. Букин. М. : Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2013. С. 32-54.
- Preprint Бакалова И. К. Некейнсианские эффекты фискальной политики: Россия, 1995-2011 / Высшая школа экономики. Серия WP12 "Научные доклады лаборатории макроэкономического анализа". 2012. № WP12/2012/04.
Europe to Face a Reverse Brain Drain: Up to 3.5 Million Highly Skilled Professionals Could Return Home
As the pandemic continues and working from home becomes the norm in some industries, professionals who once left to work in other countries are beginning to return home. Researchers from HSE University, the Catholic University of Louvain and the University of Lille have found out how strong this movement could be and what economic, social and political implications it might bring. The preprint of the study was published in the GLO Discussion Papers.
The HSE Look December Issue
The fifth issue of 2020 presents an interview on the international postdoc programme and introduces new postdocs.