Expert - CASE Ukraine

Expertise:
Macroeconomics, microeconomics, political economy of transition, private sector development

Background:

Previous Positions:
Consultant for a Harvard Institute of International Development (HIID)/CASE Ukraine Macroeconomic Reform Program (1997—2000)
Expert at the Center for Economical Analysis (1996-1997)
Business Consulting (1998-1996)
Research at the Academy of the USSR - The Theory of Crystal Growth and Monte-Carlo Computer Modeling (1985-1991)

Participated in Advisory Missions:
Ukraine: Lessons from the Ukrainian Transition: Reform Driving Forces in a Captured State (Leader)
EE: MIGA Enterprise Benchmarking Program
EE: Service Contract for a Monitoring System for the Implementation of Projects, Programmes and Operations of external Cooperation (LOT 1) - TACIS/CARDS countries
NIS: Regional Human Development Report - Commonwealth of Independent States
Ukraine: Country Economic Memorandum
Ukraine: Second Wave of Reforms in Ukraine (Blue Ribbon Commission II Project): Phase 2
Ukraine: The Sources of Economic Growth in Ukraine after 1998 Currency Crisis and the Country's Prospects

Education: 
Ph.D (2004) Economics,
M.S (1985) Theoretical Physics, Kiev State University

Additional Training:
• Economic Education and Research Consortium (EERC) Seminar on the Economics of Regulation (2000)
• TERN-EERC Summer School on the economics of the Public Sector (2000)
• Harvard University Summer School on Macroeconomic Policy and Management (1998)
• Advanced Marketing Agency for the Development of Entrepreneurship (ADE) (199)

Languages:
English (Fluent), Russian (Fluent), Ukrainian (Fluent)

Selected CASE publications:
• Towards Effective Anti-Corruption Strategies in Ukraine: Removing the Cornerstone without Toppling the Building
• Business Climate in CIS Countries

International Publications:
Ukraine: The Lost Decade. . . and the Coming Boom?
Babanin, O., V. Dubrovskiy and O. Ivaschenko, Ukraine: The Lost Decade … and a Coming Boom? - the GDN "Explaining Growth" working paper. Alterpress, Kyiv, 2002. Available at: http://www.eerc.ru/activ/projects/GRP/papers/Ukraine_final.pdf

Dubrovskiy, V., "The Privatization and Growth in the Real World: the Case of Ukraine," in Privatization in Ukraine: pros and contras (in Ukrainian), 2001  

Dubrovskiy, V., "Economic Transformation in the NIS and the Failure of the Washington Consensus: More Questions Than Answers", in: Reforms for Ukraine: Ideas and Actions, Edited by J. Szyrmer and D. Snelbecker, Alterpess, Kyiv, 2001

Dubrovskiy, V., T. Shygayeva, O. Bilothsekivets, R. Bondarenko, M. Golovanenko. "The Impact of Privatization to the Economic Behavior and Performance of the Firms in the Context of General Economic Conditions in Ukraine in the years of 2000-2001." Funded by SPFU. Under the supervision of J. Szyrmer. HIID/CASE mimeo, 2001. http://www.case.org.ua