Mikhail Anufriev

Mikhail Anufriev is a Senior Lecturer at the Economics Discipline Group within the UTS Business School, University of Technology, Sydney. He holds affiliations with the CAMA Research Program in Behavioural Macroeconomics at the Australian National University, the CeNDEF in Amsterdam, and the LEM at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa.

• Education:
  • Ph.D. in Economics, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (2005)
  • MA in Economics (with Honours), CORIPE Piemonte (2001)
  • MA in Economics (with Honours), European University at St. Petersburg (2000)
  • MSc in Mathematics (with Honours), St. Petersburg State University (1998)

Research Interests: Dr. Anufriev specializes in behavioral macroeconomics, financial markets, and agent-based modeling. His work explores how heterogeneous expectations, evolutionary learning, and institutional design influence market stability, asset pricing, and macroeconomic dynamics. Key themes include wealth-driven competition, market equilibria under procedural rationality, and the impact of trader behavior on market outcomes.

Recent Work Trends: His publications focus on evolutionary selection mechanisms in financial markets, the role of heterogeneous agents in generating instability, and the implications of market architecture on belief formation. Recent studies examine interest rate rules, short-selling constraints, and experimental evidence on adaptive trading strategies.

Professional Activities: Editor of a special issue on complexity in economics and finance. Active in presenting unpublished work, including a 2011 conference talk on switching behavior in laboratory experiments and a 2010 Bank of Canada seminar on market stability under short-selling constraints.

Labs/Teams: Affiliated with CeNDEF (Amsterdam) and LEM (Pisa), collaborating on research at the intersection of nonlinear dynamics and economic systems.