Staff profile

Dr Vsevolod Ostapenko is an Assistant Professor on the education track, specialising in a broad area of macroeconomics. Before joining Durham University Business School in 2023, he was affiliated with St. Petersburg University and held a visiting position at St. Petersburg campus of the Higher School of Economics.

Vsevolod's professional experience spans more than eight years, and includes teaching various economics disciplines, module development and curriculum design. He has an extensive background in developing special courses devoted to applied macroeconomic policy issues, having delivered a series of guest lectures at Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg in 2019. With a track record of working within the Liberal Arts educational model, Vsevolod has been a member of the Smolny Beyond Borders initiative since fall 2022.

His current research is focused on the long-run effects of public investment on total factor productivity and misallocation.

• History of macroeconomic theory
• Industrial policy and structural transformation
• Macroeconomics and macroeconomic policy
• Monetary economics

Chapter in book

• Ostapenko, V. (2020). 探寻加快俄罗斯经济增速的药方：国家项目的潜力. In Survey on the Development of the Russian Economy (2019-2020) (74-96)
• Ostapenko, V. (2019). 財政政策及其在確保俄羅斯經濟增長中的作用. In Survey on the Development of the Russian Economy (2018-2019) (63-81). Center for the Russian Studies of Renmin University of China

Journal Article

• Ostapenko, V. M., & Buglevsky, E. A. (2022). Money supply in the history of macroeconomic thought: 50 shades of endogeneity. Journal of the New Economic Association, 55(3), 156-176. https://doi.org/10.31737/2221-2264-2022-55-3-8
• Grishchenko, V., Ostapenko, V., Tkachev, V., & Tunyov, V. (2021). Modern Monetary Theory (MMT): New Paradigm or a Set of Recommendations for Macroeconomic Policy?. Ekonomicheskaya Politika, 16(3), 8-43. https://doi.org/10.18288/1994-5124-2021-3-8-43
• Vymyatnina, Y., Grishchenko, V., Ostapenko, V., & Ryazanov, V. T. (2018). Financial Instability and Economic Crises: Lessons from Minsky. Ekonomicheskaya Politika, 4, 20-41