Research Seminar on Diversity and Development

Research Seminar on Diversity and Development

The International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development at HSE and NES Center for the Study of Diversity and Social Interactions are pleased to announce their next joint Research Seminar on Diversity and Development.

Leonid Polishchuk, Professor at the Faculty of Economic Sciences and Head of the HSE Laboratory for Applied Analysis of Institutions and Social Capital, will present a paper “Institutions and Visa Regimes”(co-authored with C.Gracheva, K. Schoors and A. Yarkin).

Abstract: We study the impact on visa restrictions of institutions and social norms in a sending country. To this purpose, we unbundle institutions into “institutions-services”, which complement productive activities and serve as public production inputs, and “institutions-rules”, which strengthen the rule of law and constrain unproductive behavior. We propose a theoretical model which incorporates spillover effects of domestic institutional changes and shows that while stronger institutions-services reduce visa barriers, stronger institutions-rules have the opposite effect. Furthermore, visa barriers are affected by norms and values, which complement formal institutions as factors of visa regimes. We use various empirical models to test and confirm the above conjectures.

The seminar will take place at 17 Malaya Ordynka, room 305, at 5 p.m. on February 9th, 2016.

Working language of the seminar is English.

We would like to ask everyone who requires an HSE pass to send an e-mail to Olga Masyutina (stating your name, surname, your affiliation and contact e-mail address) until 10 a.m. February 9th.

 INSTITUTIONS AND VISA REGIMES (PDF, 1.31 Мб)

We look forward to seeing you!

tel:   +7 (495) 772-9590*55534 

e-mail: omasyutina@hse.ru.