Alexander Viktorovich Karpov

Assistant Professor: Faculty of Economic Sciences / Department of Theoretical Economics
Senior Research Fellow: International Centre of Decision Choice and Analysis

Alexander Viktorovich Karpov has been at HSE University since 2007.

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Education and Degrees

2012

Candidate of Sciences* (PhD) in Mathematical and Instrumental Methods in Economics
HSE University
Thesis Title: Ordinal models for proportional representation

2012

Doctoral programme in Mathematical economics
HSE University, Economics

2009

Master's in Economics
HSE University, Economics

2007

Bachelor's in Economics
HSE University, Economics

* Candidate of Sciences
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.

Awards and Accomplishments

Best Teacher — 2012
Winner of the HSE University Best Russian Research Paper Competition – 2023
Young Faculty Support Programme (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "Future Professoriate" (2018–2019)
Category "Future Professoriate" (2015)
Category "New Researchers" (2011–2012)

Courses (2024/2025)

Methodological Research Seminar (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 4 year, 1 module)Rus
Microeconomics for Financial Economists (Master’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences field of study Finance and Credit, field of study Finance and Credit, field of study Finance and Credit; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
Microeconomics for Financial Economists (Mago-Lego; 1, 2 module)Rus
Past Courses

Courses (2023/2024)

Advanced Chapters in Decision Theory». (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Computer Science; 4 year, 3 module)Eng
Methodological Research Seminar (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 4 year, 1 module)Rus
Microeconomics for Financial Economists (Mago-Lego; 1, 2 module)Eng
Microeconomics for Financial Economists (Master’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences field of study Finance and Credit, field of study Finance and Credit, field of study Finance and Credit; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Eng

Courses (2022/2023)

Economic Theory (Postgraduate course; 1 year, 2 semester)Rus
Methodological Research Seminar (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 4 year, 1 module)Rus
Microeconomics (Minor; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 1, 2 module)Rus
Microeconomics for Financial Economists (Master’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences field of study Finance and Credit, field of study Finance and Credit, field of study Finance and Credit, field of study Finance and Credit; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
Microeconomics for Financial Economists (Mago-Lego; 1, 2 module)Eng

Courses (2021/2022)

Economic Theory (Postgraduate course; 1 year, 1 semester)Rus
Methodological Research Seminar (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 4 year, 1 module)Rus
Microeconomics (Advanced Level) (Master’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences field of study Economics, field of study Economics; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Microeconomics for Financial Economists (Master’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Eng

Courses (2020/2021)

Advanced Microeconomics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences field of study Finance and Credit, field of study Finance and Credit, field of study Finance and Credit, field of study Economics, field of study Economics, field of study Economics, field of study Economics, field of study Economics, field of study Economics; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Economic Theory (Postgraduate course; 1 year, 1 semester)Rus
Methodological Research Seminar (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 4 year, 2 module)Rus
Research Project Seminar (Optional course (faculty); Faculty of Economic Sciences; 1-3 module)Rus

Timetable for today

Full timetable

Editorial board membership

2022: Deputy Editor-in-chief , Журнал Новой экономической ассоциации (The Journal of the New Economic Association).

2017: Member of the Editorial Board (Associate Editor), Group Decision and Negotiation.

Conferences

2014
Comparative Analysis of Business and Management: Dynamics of Business Transition (Kyoto). Presentation: Diversity, Innovation and Network
Kyoto Institute of Economic Research Seminar (Kyoto). Presentation: Russian enterprises meet sanctions

Employment history

2013 – Assistant Professor, Economics Department, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.

2018 - Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Control Sciences of Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia.

2015 (from April) – (March 2016) PostDoc with teaching load, Alfred Weber Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany.

2007–2013 Teaching Assistant, Lecturer, Economics Department, National Research University Higher School of Economics.

2010 – Research Fellow, International Laboratory of Decision Choice and Analysis, National Research University Higher School of Economics.

Short-term visits

2019 (July)- January 2020, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

2019 (April) TU Berlin, Germany.

2018 (April - May) Ghent University, Belgium.

2014 (May - August) Kyoto Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University, Japan.

2012 (October) Lecturer, Perm State National Research University (international program «Master in Finance and Information Technology» taught in English), Perm, Russia.

Research interests

- Social Choice theory;

- Proportional representation systems

Recently explored problems

- axiomatics of voice transfer rule, unique method theorem satisfying the set of axioms

Current research

- game-theory justification of proportional representation systems;
- proportional representation model with unequal number of votes through the example of voting of the board of directors of a stock-company.

Conference Participations

Nov

2023

Autumn School “Advances in Decision Analysis” was held.

On November 27 to 29, the HSE was held the Autumn School "Successes of decision analysis" with the participation of leading foreign specialists (Yong Shi, Michel Grabish, Ahmet Alkan, Bhavook Bhardwaj, Siddharth Chatterjee, Manfred J. Holler, K. Markström)

Sep

2018

Lecture by A. Karpov on "On the Number of Separable Preference Profiles"

On Wednesday, September 19 the all-Russian seminar "Mathematical methods of decision analysis in economics, finance and politics" was held. A. Karpov gave a lecture on "On the Number of Separable Preference Profiles".

Dec

2017

Neighbours: Who is Close to HSE in Rankings. Economics

We continue talking about universities that are alongside HSE in the 51–100 group in various subject areas in the QS ranking. Today we have economists speaking about their ‘neighbours in the ranking’.

Sep

2017

School "Decision making in network context" and International Workshop "The 7th Murat Sertel Workshop on Economic Design, Decision, Institutions, and Organization" were held at DeCAn lab

DeCAn lab organized two events which were held from September 25 to September 28 - a school "Decision making in network context" (September 25-26, 2017) and an international workshop "The 7th Murat Sertel Workshop on Economic Design, Decision, Institutions, and Organization" (September 27-28, 2017). DeCAn faculty took part in organizing and holding these events.

Sep

2015

On Wednesday, September 16 the all-Russian seminar "Mathematical methods of decision analysis in economics, finance and politics" was held.

Speaker: Alexander Karpov (Heidelberg University, Germany; National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia )
Title: A theory of knockout tournament seedings