Ekaterina Borisova

Pandemic Regulation and Distrust

During her research stay at the ifo Institute, Ekaterina Borisova will work on a project devoted to uncovering the role of past crisis experience for vaccination preferences (in collaboration with ifo colleagues Klaus Gründler, Armin Hackenberger, Anina Harter and Niklas Potrafke). She will also continue her project on regulation and distrust during the Covid-19 pandemic in Russia. Both projects are part of a larger project aimed to study norms and preferences during the pandemic in Russia.

Ms. Borisova’s background is in economics and economic geography with the primary research interests in the fields of political economy, institutional economics and the economics of social capital and culture. Her ongoing research projects are interdisciplinary and involve collaboration with economists and political scientists alike. She was a visiting fellow at WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Ghent University, Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies (BOFIT) among others. Ms. Borisova has published in leading journals such as Nature Medicine and the Journal of Politics.

Ekaterina Borisova is currently a holder of the “Accueil de jeunes chercheurs d’avenir” (STaRS 2022) at Lille Économie et Management, Université de Lille, France. From 2012 to 2022 she worked as an Assistant Professor at the Economics Department of the Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow, Russia and as a guest lecturer at the Moscow State University. From 2017 to 2022 she was a Deputy Director at the HSE International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development in Moscow (established in cooperation with Columbia University) which became well-known for its high quality research on Russia. Her MA and PhD in Economics are from HSE University.