Evgeniya Vladimirovna Bessonova

Bessonova Evgeniya Vladimirovna is an Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Economics within the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), where she has been working since 2012. With 23 years of scientific and teaching experience, she is an established researcher in economics with a focus on enterprise efficiency, productivity, and international business.

She holds a Candidate of Economic Sciences degree (2011), a Master's degree (1997), and a Bachelor's degree (1995), all in Economics from Lomonosov Moscow State University. Her academic journey reflects a deep commitment to economic research and education in Russia.

Dr. Bessonova's research focuses on the analysis of enterprise efficiency and productivity, foreign enterprises, competition dynamics, innovation processes, and international trade. Her work often examines how institutional factors affect business decisions, particularly in the Russian context. She has extensively studied the impact of courts on multinational decisions, firm efficiency in relation to government procurement, household financial behavior during the pandemic, and productivity dynamics in Russian enterprises.

Her recent publications demonstrate a strong focus on institutional economics and firm performance, with research spanning from 2015 to 2024. She frequently collaborates with researchers like Ksenia Gonchar and Anna Tsvetkova, producing high-impact research in journals such as Applied Econometrics, European Journal of Political Economy, and Technovation. Her work combines theoretical frameworks with empirical analysis of Russian enterprise data to draw broader economic insights.

• Bonus for publication in a journal from List A (2024–2025, 2023–2024)
• Bonus for publication in an international peer-reviewed scientific journal (2021–2022, 2020–2022, 2018–2019, 2017–2018)

Dr. Bessonova teaches 'Practical training in applied economic research' for third-year Economics students at HSE. She has been actively involved in research seminars, including a joint seminar of the Laboratory for Labor Market Research and the Center for Labor Research in June 2021, where she presented on 'Efficiency of enterprises, market exit and public procurement.' Her professional network includes collaborations with researchers at the Bank of Russia and participation in international conferences such as the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy.