IAIS

What is the IAIS?

After the mid-1990s when the neoclassic recipes for economic reforms showed their quite limited efficiency practically in all the post-Soviet states, economists began searching for a new economic paradigm which could be more adequate to the post-Soviet realities and, at the same time, would allow communication with foreign partners in the same language. The new paradigm was found in institutionalism (both “old” and “new”).

The main topics for studies are:

1. Methodology of the institutional economic theory

2. Theory of transactional costs

3. Theory of contracts

4. Theory of economic organization

5. Institutional theory of a state

6. Public choice theory

7. Economic theory of power

8. New economic theory

The Association’s goals are:

1. Contribution to the studies in the field of traditional and new institutional theory

2. Contribution to open discussions on key issues of institutional theory

3. Publishing articles on institutional subjects.

Events

The events held by the Association:

•   International Conference on “Problems of Modern Economics and Institutional Theory;
•   annual compilation of articles titled Post-Soviet Institutionalism;
•   round tables and seminars;
•   electronic journal on problems of institutional economics;
•   Who Is Who in the Post-Soviet Institutionalism (information about the Association members).

Management

Association Co-Chairmen:
Rustem Nureev, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of Department of Economical Analysis of Organizations and Markets, Higher School of Economics, Moscow;
Vyacheslav Dementiev, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Director of the Higher School of Economics and Management, Head of Department of Economical Theory at Donetsk National Technical University;

Administration:
Vyacheslav Volchik, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don;
Andrei Gritsenko, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of Department, Institute of Economics and Forecasting of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev;
Yury Latov, Candidate of Economics, Associate Professor, Department of Institutional Economics at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow;
Ivan Maliy, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Kiev National University of Economics;
Anton Oleynik, Candidate of Economics, Associate Professor at the Department of Institutional Economics of the Higher School of Economics, Moscow;
Robert Pustoviyt, Doctor of Economics, Associate Professor, Institute of Banking, Ukrainian Academy of Banking of the National Bank of Ukraine, Cherkassy;
Victor Tarasevich, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of Department of Political Economy at the Ukrainian National Academy of Metallurgy, Dnepropetrovsk.

The Association’s official website: http://instud.org/

Starting from 2005, the Association issues yearbooks.

Post-Soviet Institutionalism – yearly miscellany, 2005. Edited by R. Nureev and D. Dementiev.

Donetsk, 2005

This monograph summarizes the results of studies in the field of institutional theory in Russia and Ukraine in the post-Soviet period and introduces the main trends of the studies, both in theory and in interpretation of the theoretical propositions into economic practice.