Philip Ushchev
- Leading Research Fellow:HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / Center for Market Studies and Spatial Economics
- Associate Professor:HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management / Department of Economics
- Philip Ushchev has been at HSE University since 2011.
Education and Degrees
- 2006
Candidate of Sciences* (PhD) in Mathematical and Instrumental Methods in Economics
St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance
Thesis Title: Asymptotic properties of optimal paths in aggregate models of economis dynamics - 2003
Degree
St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance
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.
Courses (2021/2022)
Advanced Macroeconomics (Master’s programme; St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management; field of study "38.04.01. Экономика", field of study "38.04.08. Финансы и кредит"; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Public Economics (Master’s programme; St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management; 1 year, 4 module)Eng
Research Seminar (Postgraduate course’s programme; field of study "38.06.01. Экономика", field of study "38.06.01. Экономика"; 2 year, 1, 2 semester)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2020/2021)
- Advanced Macroeconomics (Master’s programme; St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Advanced Microeconomics (Master’s programme; St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Empirical Industrial Organization (Master’s programme; St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management; 1 year, 4 module)Eng
- Macroeconomics (Advanced Level) (Master’s programme; St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
Courses (2019/2020)
Advanced Macroeconomics (Master’s programme; St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management; field of study "38.04.08. Финансы и кредит", field of study "38.04.01. Экономика"; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Public Economics (Master’s programme; St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management; 2 year, 1 module)Eng
Articles in international peer-reviewed journals9
- Article Bucci A., Ushchev P. Specialization vs Competition: An Anatomy of Increasing Returns to Scale // Journal of Economic Geography. 2021. Vol. 21. No. 3. P. 461-486. doi
- Article Ushchev P., Zenou Y. Social Norms in Networks // Journal of Economic Theory . 2020. Vol. 185. P. 104969. doi
- Article De Palma A., Papageourgiou Y., Thisse J., Ushchev P. About the Origin of Cities // Journal of Urban Economics. 2019. Vol. 111. P. 1-13. doi
- Article Ivanova V., Ushchev P. Product differentiation, competitive toughness, and intertemporal substitution // The Scandinavian Journal of Economics. 2019. Vol. 121. No. 3. P. 1244-1269. doi
- Article Malykhin N. I., Ushchev P. How market interactions shape the city structure // Regional Science and Urban Economics. 2018. Vol. 71. P. 122-136. doi
- Article Ushchev P., Zenou Y. Price Competition in Product Variety Networks // Games and Economic Behavior. 2018. Vol. 110. P. 226-247. doi
- Article Parenti M., Ushchev P., Thisse J. Toward a theory of monopolistic competition // Journal of Economic Theory . 2017. Vol. 167. No. 1. P. 86-115. doi
- Article Ushchev P., Sloev I., Thisse J. Do we go shopping downtown or in the 'burbs? // Journal of Urban Economics. 2015. Vol. 85. No. 1. P. 1-15. doi
- Article Osharin A., Thisse J., Ushchev P., Verbus V. A. Monopolistic competition and income dispersion // Economics Letters. 2014. Vol. 122. No. 2. P. 348-352. doi
Chapters2
- Book Лимонов Л. Э., Батчаев А. Р., Кайсарова В. П., Колчинская Е. Э., Несена М. В., Полищук Л. И., Русецкая О. В., Ущев Ф. А., Холодилин К. А., Баранов А. С., Власова Т. В., Горный М. Б., Жеблиенок М. А., Жихаревич Б. С., Жунда Н. Б., Истомина Л. Ю., Кадочников Д. В., Коломак Е. А., Линов В. К., Одинг Н. Ю., Савулькин Л. И., Чекалин В. С., Юшков А. О. УРБАНИСТИКА. ГОРОДСКАЯ ЭКОНОМИКА, РАЗВИТИЕ И УПРАВЛЕНИЕ. Учебник и практикум для вузов / Рук.: Л. Э. Лимонов; отв. ред.: Л. Э. Лимонов; под общ. ред.: Л. Э. Лимонов; науч. ред.: Л. Э. Лимонов. М. : Юрайт, 2020.
- Chapter Thisse J., Ushchev P. Monopolistic competition without apology, in: Handbook of Game Theory and Industrial Organization Vol. 1. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018. P. 93-136.
Working papers10
- Preprint Matsuyama K., Ushchev P. Constant Pass-Through / Centre for Economic Policy Research. Series ISSN 0265-8003 "Centre for Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper Series". 2020. No. DP15475.
- Preprint Matsuyama K., Ushchev P. Destabilizing Effects of Market Size in the Dynamics of Innovation / Centre for Economic Policy Research. Series ISSN 0265-8003 "Centre for Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper Series". 2020. No. DP15010.
- Preprint Matsuyama K., Ushchev P. When Does Procompetitive Entry Imply Excessive Entry? / Centre for Economic Policy Research. Series ISSN 0265-8003 "Centre for Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper Series". 2020. No. DP14991.
- Preprint Behrens K., Kichko S., Ushchev P. Intersectoral linkages: Good shocks, bad outcomes? / CEPR. Series DP "CEPR". 2019. No. DP13946.
- Preprint Kichko S., Behrens K., Ushchev P. Intersectoral Markup Divergence / CESifo Group Munich. Series "CESifo working paper". 2018. No. WP6965.
- Preprint Islam A., Ushchev P., Zenou Y., Zhang X. The Value of Information in Technology Adoption: Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh / Centre for Economic Policy Research. Series ISSN 0265-8003 "Centre for Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper Series". 2018. No. DP13419.
- Preprint Matsuyama K., Philip Ushchev. Beyond CES: Three Alternative Classes of Flexible Homothetic Demand Systems / Centre for Economic Policy Research. Series ISSN 0265-8003 "Centre for Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper Series". 2017. No. DP12210.
- Preprint Kokovin S. G., Parenti M., Thisse J., Ushchev P. On the Dilution of Market Power / Centre for Economic Policy Research. Series ISSN 0265-8003 "Centre for Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper Series". 2017. No. DP12367.
- Preprint Thisse J., Ushchev P. When Can a Demand System Be Described by a Multinomial Logit with Income Effect? / National Research University Higher School of Economics. Series WP BRP "Basic research program". 2016. No. 139.
- Preprint Ushchev P., Zenou Y. Price competition in product variety networks / Centre for Economic Policy Research. Series ISSN 0265-8003 "Centre for Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper Series". 2015. No. DP10862.
Articles in Russian journals6
- Article Кичко С. И., Ущев Ф. А. Последствия открытия торговли между развитыми и развивающимися странами // Экономический журнал Высшей школы экономики. 2017. Т. 21. № 1. С. 9-31.
- Article Ущев Ф. А., Слоев И. А., Тисс Ж. Конкуренция между маленькими магазинами и большим торговым центром // Журнал Новой экономической ассоциации. 2014. Т. 23. № 3. С. 12-37.
- Article Молчанов П. С., Ущев Ф. А. Влияние размера рынка на концентрацию многопродуктовых фирм в модели монополистической конкуренции // Математическая теория игр и ее приложения. 2013. Т. 5. № 3. С. 27-57.
- Article Желободько Е. В., Кичко С. И., Ущев Ф. А. Структура факторов производства и интеграция рынков в двухфакторной модели монополистической конкуренции // Пространственная экономика. 2013. № 3. С. 10-29.
- Article Ущев Ф. А., Чернов В. П. Модель экономической динамики, учитывающая неоднородность капитала // Финансы и бизнес. 2007. № 2
- Article Ущев Ф. А., Чиркова С. С., Чернов В. П. Модель эндогенного роста, учитывающая восстановление рабочей силы посредством потребления // Известия Санкт-Петербургского университета экономики и финансов. 2007. № 3
Other publications3
- Article Ushchev P. Multi-product firms in monopolistic competition: the role of scale-scope spillovers // Research in Economics. 2017. Vol. 71. No. 4. P. 675-689. doi
- Chapter Ivanova V., Ushchev P., Vakhitova H. Occupational choice of migrants: does NEG tell something new?, in: XVI Апрельская международная научная конференция по проблемам развития экономики и общества: в 4 кн. / Отв. ред.: Е. Г. Ясин. Кн. 1. М. : Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2016. P. 596-598.
- Book Чернов В. П., Ущев Ф. А. Модели эндогенного роста и анализ экономической динамики российских регионов. СПб. : Издательство Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета экономики и финансов, 2010.
Employment history
PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2018--2019: Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), research fellow (postdoc) at the Department of Economics
2011--2018: HSE University Saint Petersburg, docent at the Department of Economics
2011--2018: HSE University, senior research fellow (since 2016 leading research fellow)
2009--2011: Saint Petersburg State University of Economics
and Finance, docent at the Department for Economic Cybernetics and Mathematical
Economics
2008--2009: A+S Consult GMbH, analyst at the Department of Transportation Planning
and Modeling
2006--2008: Saint Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance, docent at the Department for Economic Cybernetics and Mathematical Economics
2005--2006: Saint Petersburg State University of Economics
and Finance, TA at the Department for Economic Cybernetics and Mathematical Economics
Presenter at conferences and seminars
Conferences Participation
2019
Australasian Econometric Society Meeting (Perth, Australia): ``Social norms in networks'' https://esam2019.org/submit/
Australasian Economic Theory Workshop (Sydney, Australia): ``Intersectoral linkages: good shocks, bad outcomes'' https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/2019-02/AETW%202019%20Program.pdf
2018
7th IOSE conference (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
2017
Urban Economic Association European meeting (Copenhagen, Denmark)
6th IOSE conference (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
2016
European Association of Research in Industrial Economics (Lisbon, Portugal)
EEA-ESEM (Geneva, Switzerland)
Royal Economic Sociaty Meeting (Brighton, UK)
5th IOSE conference (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
2015
15th SAET Conference on Current Trends in Economics, invited session (Cambridge, UK)
16th Meeting of the Association for Public Economic Theory (Luxembourg)
Royal Economic Society Meeting (Manchester, UK)
3rd ICARE conference (Perm, Russia)
4th IOSE conference (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
2014
41st Annual Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (Milan, Italy)
EEA-ESEM (Tolouse, France)
15th Meeting of the Association for Public Economic Theory (Seattle, USA)
Asian Meeting of Econometric Society (Taipei, Taiwan)
3rd IOSE conference (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
2013
1st ICARE conference (Perm, Russia)
Econometric Society European Meeting (Goethenburg, Sweden)
Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society (Singapore)
14th Meeting of the Association for Public Economic Theory (Lisbon, Portugal)
2nd IOSE conference (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
2012
Italian Trade Study Group (Trento, Italy)
39th Annual Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (Rome, Italy)
1st IOSE conference (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Invited Speaker at Seminars
2020
Econ Theory series seminar, Australian National University (Canberra, Australia). March 04. Talk: ``Destabilizing effects of market size in innovation dynamics''
2019
St.Petersburg Economic seminar (HSE, EU, PDMI). Oct 03. Talk: ``Social Norms in Networks''.
Economic Theory and Experimental Seminar, Melbourne University (Melbourne, Australia). March 22. Talk: ``Social Norms in Networks''.
Economics Research Seminar Series, University of Technology Sydney (Sydney, Australia). February 13. Talk: ``Social Norms in Networks''.
2018
Econ Theory series seminar, Australian National University (Canberra, Australia). November 27. Talk: ``Social Norms in Networks''
Brownbag in Economics, Monash University (Melbourne, Australia). September 19. Talk: ``Social Norms in Networks''
Econ Theory series seminar, Australian National University (Canberra, Australia). April 24. Talk: ``Beyond CES: Three Alternative Cases of Flexible Homothetic Demand Systems''
2017
Brownbag, Tinbergen Institute (Amsterdam, Netherlands), April 20. Talk: ``Monopolistic Competition without Apology''
2016
Research Seminar, IDE-JETRO (Tokyo, Japan), May 25. Talk: ``Price Competition in Product Variety Networks''
2014
Research Seminar, New Economic School (Moscow, Russia), April 7. Talk: ``Towards a Theory of Monopolistic Competition''
Research Seminar, Stockholm University, Department of Economics (Stockholm, Sweden), April 23. Talk: ``Towards a Theory of Monopolistic Competition''
2013
Research Seminar, University of Milan, Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods (Milan, Italy), April 17. Talk: ``Do We Go Shopping Downtown or in the 'burbs?''
Administrative activities
Academic director: MA programme "Applied Economics and Mathematical Methods"
Paper by Philip Ushchev and Kiminori Matsuyama has been accepted for publication in the “Journal of Economic Theory”
Paper “Destabilizing Effects of Market Size in the Dynamics of Innovation” by our leading research fellow Philip Ushchev (joint with Kiminori Matsuyama from Northwestern University), has been accepted for publication at “Journal of Economic Theory”.
Call for papers: The Fourth International Seminar “Market Studies and Spatial Economics”
The Center for Market Studies and Spatial Economics invites you to participate in the Fourth International Workshop 'Market Studies and Spatial Economics', which will take place in Moscow, Russia on April 5–6, 2022 as part of the XXIII Yasin (April) International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development (HSE).
Our colleagues are in RePEc Top-10!
The HSE University holds a leading position among all the Russian universities and research units in the Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) rating based on the citation index of economists from almost eight thousand universities all over the world, as of January 2021. The second top position is shared by our Center for Market Studies and Spatial Economics, NES, the St. Petersburg HSE campus, and the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the Moscow HSE. Our colleagues Jacques-Francois Thisse, Philip Ushchev and Sergey Kokovin are among the top 10 researchers-economists affiliated with Russian universities. Moreover, Jacques-Francois Thisse ranks 2nd in the world ranking in the field of Economic Geography and ranks 5th in the world ranking in the field of Industrial Organization.
Call for papers: The Third International Seminar “Market Studies and Spatial Economics”
Center for Market Studies and Spatial Economics invites you to participate in the The Third International Seminar “Market Studies and Spatial Economics” that will take place in Moscow, Russia on April 15–16, 2021 as part of the XXII April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development (HSE).
Call for papers: The 9th International conference 'Industrial Organization and Spatial Economics'
The Center for Market Studies and Spatial Economics invites you to participate in the 9th International conference 'Industrial Organization and Spatial Economics'.
Submission deadline: February 15, 2020
Our colleagues are in Top-10 RePEc ranking!
The Higher School of Economics holds a leading position among all the Russian universities and research units in the Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) rating based on the citation index of economists from almost eight thousand universities all over the world. The second top position is shared by our Center for Market Studies and Spatial Economics, NES, the St. Petersburg HSE campus, and the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the Moscow HSE. Our colleagues Jacques-Francois Thisse, Sergey Kokovin and Philip Ushchev are among the top 10 researchers-economists affiliated with Russian universities.
We owe most cordial congratulations to our colleagues and wish them further successful publications in leading international journals!
Call for papers: The Second International Seminar “Market Studies and Spatial Economics”
Center for Market Studies and Spatial Economics invites you to participate in the The Second International Seminar “Market Studies and Spatial Economics” (https://ces.hse.ru/msse) that will take place in Moscow, Russia on April 7–8, 2020 as part of the XXI April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development (HSE).
Submission deadline: December 25, 2019.
Philip Ushchev's talk on Social Norms in Networks (joint with Yves Zenou, Monash University)
CMSSE is happy to invite everyone this Thursday, October 3, to the research seminar in Economics and Econometrics where Philip Ushchev will give a talk on Social Norms in Networks (joint with Yves Zenou, Monash University).
Date & Time: October, 3, 18:00-19:30
Place: 27 Fontanka river embankment, PDMI RAS, Marble hall (2nd floor)
Paper by CMSSE fellows accepted for publication at the Scandinavian Journal of Economics
The paper "Product Differentiation, Competitive Toughness, and Intertemporal Substitution" by CMSSE research fellow Vera Ivanova and leading reasearch fellow Philip Ushchev has been accepted for publication at the Scandinavian Journal of Economics.
Paper by MSSE research fellows accepted at the Journal of Economic Theory
The paper "Toward a theory of monopolistic competition" by the MSSE chief research fellow Jacques Thisse and leading research fellow Philip Ushchev (co-authored with Mathieu Parenti from the Université Libre de Bruxelles) has been accepted for publication at the Journal of Economic Theory.
A paper by MSSE researchers has been accepted for publication at the Journal of Urban Economics.
The paper "Do we go shopping downtown or in the `burbs?" by Igor Sloev, Jacques Thisse and Philip Ushchev has been accepted for publication at the Journal of Urban Economics.
A paper by CMSSE research fellows published in "Economics Letters"
A paper by Aleksandr Osharin, Jacques Thisse and Phillip Uschev, titled "Monopolistic competition and income dispersion" (co-author: Valery Verbus) has been published by the "Economics Letters" journal.
Public research seminar. A report by Philip Ushchev and Igor Sloev
On June 11, 2013, CMSSE was held the public research seminar. Report on the theme "Do we go shopping downtown or in the `burbs? Why not both?" by Senior Researcher Philip Ushchev and Senior Researcher Igor Sloev (CMSSE).
CMSSE Research seminar. Speaker: Ph.D. Ph.Uschev
On March 27, 2013 at 15:00 CMSSE held a research seminar. A report on «Do we go shopping downtown or to the mall? Well, why not to both?» by CMSSE Senior Research Fellow PhD Philip Uschev.
International Research Seminar "Study of vertical integration in international trade". Presentation by Philip Ushchev.
On December 07, 2012, at 12:00 MSSE was held a public research seminar. Report on the theme "Multi-plant firms and firms investing in productivity as limiting cases of multi-product firms" by Philip Ushchev (CMSSE).
IX International scientific conference on problems of economic development in the modern world
"Sustainable Development of the Russian regions: the economy and political processes, a new model of spatial development of the Russian Federation"
On April 20-21, 2012 in Yekaterinburg, the International conference "Sustainable Development of the Russian regions". The MSSE organized section A4 "Spatial Economics"
Center Research Seminar. Speaker: Ph.D. Ph.Uschev
February 3, made a presentation on «How does the market size affect the product line scope? The case of a closed economy», Senior Research Fellow of the TMSE Uschev Philipp.