July, 2017 Mikhail M. Klimenko Associate Professor The School of Economics, Georgia Institute of Technology 221 Bobby Dodd Way, Atlanta, GA 30332-5750 Office phone: 404-894-0353. Fax: 404-894-1890. E-mail address: mikhail.klimenko@econ.gatech.edu Website: http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~mk198/index.htm EDUCATION STANFORD UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Ph.D. in Business, June 1997. STANFORD UNIVERSITY M.A. in Statistics, June 1995. BROWN UNIVERSITY M.A. in Sociology, May 1991. ST. PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY B.A. and M.A. in Economics (Honors), June 1989. PROFESSIONAL AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS, GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, ATLANTA. Associate Professor of Economics, 2004 present (with tenure since 2009). Graduate Program Director, 2005-2011. SKEMA BUSINESS SCHOOL, NICE, FRANCE. Professor of Economics, Senior Economist at OFCE-DRIC (Sciences-Po), 2011-2012. UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG. Visiting Professor of Economics, Spring 2011. GRADUATE SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND PACIFIC STUDIES (IRPS), UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO. Assistant Professor of Economics, 1997 2004. GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, SAINT PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY, RUSSIA. Visiting Professor, 2007-2010. THE CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL RESEARCH (CEFIR), MOSCOW, RUSSIA. Visiting Professor, 2006, 2007. UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA, (AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA), SPAIN. Visiting Professor, 2005. THE EAST-WEST CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII, MANOA. Visiting Professor, 2003. NANKAI UNIVERSITY, TIANJIN, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. Visiting Professor, 1998. WORLD BANK. Consultant, 1998. EUROPEAN BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT. Associate. August-September 1992. COURSES TAUGHT Undergraduate Introductory Microeconomics International Economics Strategic Management International Economic Integration: Theory and Institutions Graduate International Economics (Master s level) International Trade Theory (2nd year PhD level) World Trade Organization: Law, Economics and Implications for Corporate Strategies (Master s and MBA level) Economics of Network Industries (Master s level) Telecommunications Industry: Economics, Public Policy and Corporate Strategy (MBA level)
2 RESEARCH INTERESTS Open-economy industrial organization Public Policy and Business Strategy for Information Technology and Telecommunications Networks Economics of Telecommunications Networks International trade theory and policy; International trade in telecommunications services and information technology PUBLICATIONS PEER-REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTERS Implementing Telecommunications Liberalization in Developing Countries after the WTO Agreement on Basic Telecommunications Services, (with Peter Cowhey), in Robert M. Stern, ed., Services in the international economy. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001, pp. 349-369. Telecommunications Liberalization in Developing Countries after the WTO Agreement on Basic Telecomms, (with Peter Cowhey), in Rohan Kariyawasam, ed., The WTO, Intellectual property, E-Commerce and the Internet (Edward Elgar, 2009). Experimentation in Export Promotion Policies in Transition and Developing Economies, in Fabry, N. and Zeghni, S., eds., Transition in Asia and Eastern and Central Europe: A Closed Door, Two Open Windows? New York, Nova Science Publishers, 2001, pp. 87-115. PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES Telecommunications Reform in Developing Countries after the WTO agreement on Basic Telecommunications Services, (with Peter Cowhey), Journal of International Development, 12 (2000): 265-281. Trade Interdependence, the International Financial Institutions, and the Recent Evolution of Sovereign-Debt Renegotiations, Journal of International Economics, 58 (2002): 177-209. Industrial Targeting, Experimentation and Long-Run Specialization, Journal of Development Economics, 73/1 (2004): 75-105. The New International Trade Regime in Telecommunication Services and Network Modernization in Transition Economies, (with Peter Cowhey), Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 40 (2004): 61 97. Competition, Matching, and Geographical Clustering at Early Stages of the Industry Life Cycle, Journal of Economics and Business, 56/3 (2004): 177 195. The 'Thick Market' Effect and Agglomeration in High-Growth Industries, Pacific Economic Review, 10/2 (2005): 167 187. Technical Compatibility and the Mode of Foreign Entry with Network Externalities, (with Kamal Saggi), Canadian Journal of Economics, 40/1(2007): 176-206. Recurrent Trade Agreements and the Value of External Enforcement, (with Joel Watson and Garey Ramey), Journal of International Economics 74 (2008): 475 499. Strategic Interoperability Standards and Trade Taxes, International Review of Economics and Finance 18 (2009): 539-551. Policies and International Trade Agreements on Technical Compatibility for Industries with Network Externalities, Journal of International Economics 77 (2009): 151 166. Duration and Term Structure of Trade Agreements. (With Sergei Guriev.) The Economic Journal (Royal Economic Society) 125 (2015): 1818 1849.
3 WORKING PAPERS AND RESEARCH WORK IN PROGRESS "Language, Internet and Platform Competition." 2017. Joint with Doh-Shin Jeon and Bruno Jullien (University of Toulouse, France). Human capital accumulation in a two-sector model of small open economy. 2015. Joint with Kirill Borisov (European University, St. Petersburg, Russia) and Maurizio Iacopetta (SKEMA, Nice, France). Evolution of the Internet ecosystem: Network Economics and Computational Perspectives. Joint with Constantine Dovrolis, (College of Computing, Georgia Tech), and George Riley, (College of Computing, Georgia Tech.) "Foreign Direct Investment in E-commerce Platforms." 2016. Joint with Jingwen Qu. OTHER PUBLICATIONS The WTO Agreement and Telecommunications Policy Reform, (with Peter Cowhey), The World Bank Policy Research Report #2601. October 1998. http://go.worldbank.org/k06so1xag0 CASE STUDIES Poland, 1995, with John Roberts, Stanford Graduate School of Business Case S-SM-25, 1995. Lincoln Electric in the 1990s, with John Roberts, Stanford Graduate School of Business Case S-SM-40, 1997. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES MEMBER: American Economic Association, Canadian Economic Association, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, International Economics and Finance Society, International Telecommunications Society. REFEREE SERVICE: American Economic Review, International Economic Review, RAND Journal of Economics, European Economic Review, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, Journal of the Japanese and International Economics, Journal of Economic Growth, Economics and Politics, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Bulletin of Economic Research, Berkeley Electronic Journals in Theoretical Economics, Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Economic Theory, National Science Foundation. RESEARCH GRANTS Economics of contractual arrangements for Internet interconnections. Co PI with Constatine Dovrolis (College of Computing, Georgia Tech) and Amogh Dhamdhere (University of California, San Diego), $1.2 million NSF grant for four years, starting 2015. Economic growth and human capital formation in developing and transition economies. SKEMA and OFCE (Sciences-Po s Research Center in Economics), 2012. Technical Compatibility, the Mode of Foreign Entry and FDI policy under Network Externalities, (with Kamal Saggi). The Net Institute, 2004. Russia s WTO Accession Strategy and Telecommunications Policy Reforms, The Government of the Russian Federation and Swedish Agency for International Development, 2002, 2003. Telecommunications Policy Reforms in North-East Asia. POSCO Foundation Fellowship (East-West Center), 2002. The WTO Agreement on and Telecommunications Policy Reform in Developing and Transition Economies, (with Peter Cowhey). World Bank, 1998-1999. Trade Policy Experimentation under Uncertainty in Transition and Developing Economies, Social Science Research Council, 1996.
4 CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS INVITED ACTIVITIES Invited seminar, Search-Engine Competition, International Trade and Language, the St. Petersburg State University, Russia. June 2015. Invited seminar, "Search-Engine Competition, International Trade and Language," Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. November 22, 2013. Invited seminar, Human capital accumulation in a two-sector model of small open economy, the European University, St. Petersburg, Russia. May 2013. Invited seminar, Duration and Term Structure of Trade Agreements, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, April 2011. Invited seminar, "Search-Engine Competition, International Trade and Language," Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong, April 2011. Invited seminar, Duration and Term Structure of Trade Agreements, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, April 2011. Invited seminar, "Search-Engine Competition, International Trade and Language," SKEMA Business School, Sophia Antipolis, France, January 2011. Invited seminar, Duration and Term Structure of Trade Agreements, the University of New Hampshire, Durham, November 2010. Invited seminar, "Search-Engine Competition, International Trade and Language," the European University, St. Petersburg, Russia, May 2010. Invited seminar, Duration and Term Structure of Trade Agreements, Drexel University, Philadelphia, November 2009. Invited seminar, Duration and Term Structure of Trade Agreements, Toulouse School of Economics, France, June 2009. Invited seminar, Duration and Term Structure of Trade Agreements, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, April 2008. Invited seminar, Technical Compatibility and the Mode of Foreign Entry under Network Externalities, The Centre for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR), Moscow, June 2006. Invited seminar, Technical Compatibility and the Mode of Foreign Entry under Network Externalities, Institute for Empirical Economic Research, University of Zurich, December 2005. Invited seminar, Technical Compatibility and the Mode of Foreign Entry under Network Externalities, WZB Seminar Series on Economics and Politics, WZB Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin, August 2005. Invited lecture, Recurrent Trade Agreements and the Value of External Enforcement, CESIfoVenice Summer Institute on "Global Economic Negotiations," Venice International University, San Servolo, Italy, 20-21 July 2005. Invited seminar, Compatibility Standards and Trade Policy for Industries with Network Externalities, International Trade Seminar at the University of California, Santa Cruz, May 2003. Invited seminar, Compatibility Standards and Trade Policy for Industries with Network Externalities, International Trade Theory and Policy Seminar at the University of British Columbia School of Commerce, Canada, October 2002. Invited seminar, Compatibility Standards and Trade Policy for Industries with Network Externalities, International Trade Theory Seminar at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 2002. Invited seminar, Compatibility Standards and Trade Policy for Industries with Network Externalities, The East- West Center Seminar on Economic Policies in North-East Asia, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, March 2002.
5 Invited seminar, Industrial Targeting Experimentation and Long-run Specialization, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden, October 1998. WORKSHOPS/MEETINGS AND OTHER CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES Presenter and discussant, the XVIII Conference on International Economics organized by the Spanish Association of International Economics and Finance at the Universidad Internacional de Andalucia. La Rábida, Spain in June, 2017. Presenter and session chair, the XVI Conference on International Economics organized by the Spanish Association of International Economics and Finance in Deusto Business School, in San Sebastian, Spain in June, 2015. Presenter, the XV Conference on International Economics organized by the Spanish Association of International Economics and Finance in Salamanca in June, 2014. Presenter, the XIV International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development co-organized the Higher School of Economics, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund in Moscow, Russia. April, 2013. Presenter and Session Chair, Macroeconomics and Credit Frictions workshop, SKEMA, Sophia Antipolis, France, June 2012. Presenter and Session Chair, Asia-Pacific Innovation Conference, Singapore National University, Singapore, May 2011. Presenter, Session Chair and Discussant, The Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory Conference in Ischia, Italy, July 2009. Presenter, Co-organizer, Workshop on International Trade, Atlanta, April 2008. Presenter, Session Chair and Discussant, Allied Social Sciences Association meetings, New Orleans, January 2008. Presenter and Section Chair, Conference on the Economics of Information and Communication Technologies, The École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST) Paris, France, June 2007. Presenter, Midwest International Economics Meetings, Minneapolis, MI April 2007. Presenter, The Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory Conference in Vigo, Spain, June 2005. Invited Presenter, Conference on Innovation, Ownership and Competition, Organized by the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IUI) and the CEPR, Stockholm, Sweden, 7-8 June 2005. Section Chair (the Session on Open-Economy Industrial Organization), Presenter and Discussant, the Third Annual International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC), Atlanta, GA, April 2005. Section Chair and Presenter, NET Institute Conference on Network Economics, Stern School of Business, NYU, New York, April 2005. Invited Presenter, The 15th Biennial Conference of the International Telecommunications Society, Berlin, Germany, September 2004. Presenter and Discussant, American Economic Association Annual Meetings, San Diego, CA, January 2004. Presenter and Discussant, Mid-West International Economics Meetings, Bloomington, IN, October 2003. Presenter, Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC), Arlington, VA, September 2003. Presenter, Center for Management in the Information Economy (CMIE) conference, "Managing in the Global Information Economy: Current Research," UCLA, Los Angeles, September 2003. Presenter and Conference Organizer, Designing Russia's Telecommunications Regulatory Reforms: Theory and International Experience, Moscow, June 2003. Presenter, The 14th Biennial Conference of the International Telecommunications Society, Seoul, South Korea, August 2002. Presenter and Conference Organizer, Negotiating Russia s WTO Accession: Strategic Lessons from Multilateral Trade Liberalization and Club Enlargement, Moscow, Russia, June 2002.
6 Presenter, The 5th Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, Ischia, Italy, July 2001. Presenter, Liberalization of the Russian Market of Telecommunications Services and Problems of Russia's Accession to WTO. A conference organized by the World Bank s Information for Development Program and the Ministry of Communications of Russia. Moscow, Russia, June 2001. Presenter and Discussant, Mid-West International Economics Meetings, Madison, WI, May 2001. Presenter, Mid-West International Economics Meetings, Minneapolis, MN, October 2000. Presenter, European Trade Study Group Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland, September 2000. Co-Presenter, The World Services Congress "Services: Generating Global Growth and Opportunity," November 1999. Presenter, European Economic Association Congress, Berlin, Germany, September 1998. Presenter, European Regional Science Association, Munich, Germany, August 1998. Presenter, European Regional Science Association Meetings, Economic integration and development strategies for peripheral regions of Europe, Trondheim, Norway, June 1997. Presenter, Annual Conference of the Social Science Research Council on Economics of Transition to Market Systems, St. Petersburg, Russia, July 1996. Presenter, CEPR (Center for Economic Policy Research) Conference on the Political Economy of Sovereign Debt, Cambridge University, UK, July 1995. CEPR (Center for Economic Policy Research) Conference on the Political Economy of Sovereign Debt, Cambridge University, UK, July 1995. OTHER CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION Session Chairman, Workshop on International Trade at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, April 2008. Session Chairman and Discussant, Allied Social Sciences Association meetings, New Orleans, January 2008. Section Chairman, Conference on the Economics of Information and Communication Technologies, The École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST) Paris, France, June 2007. Session Chairman, NET Institute Conference on Network Economics, Stern School of Business, NYU, New York, April 2005. Session chair. Served as a discussant in session "Entry and Exit". International Industrial Organization Conference, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, April 2005. Discussant, American Economic Association Annual Meetings, San Diego, 2004. Discussant, 5th Annual International Economics Conference, Santa Cruz Center for International Economics (SCCIE), October 2002. Session Chairman and Discussant, 14th Biennial Conference of the International Telecommunications Society, Seoul, South Korea, August 2002. Session Chairman and Discussant, Negotiating Russia s WTO Accession: Strategic Lessons from Multilateral Trade Liberalization and Club Enlargement, Moscow, Russia, June 2002. Discussant, Mid-West International Economics Meetings, Madison, WI, May 2001. Discussant, Research Conference on Political Economy of International Trade Institutions, Lake Arrowhead, CA, February 2000. Discussant, Conference on Regional Integration and Trade in Transition Economies, St.-Petersburg, Russia, June 1999.
7 OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS Member, Expert Advisory Panel for Humanities and Social Sciences of the Russian Ministry of Education, 2012/13, 2013/14