Contact information
E-mail: nikita.melnikov@novasbe.pt
Twitter: @melnikov_n_v
Mailing address
Rua da Holanda, 1
2775-405 Carcavelos
Portugal
Nikita Melnikov
Assistant Professor
Nova School of Business and Economics
I am an Assistant Professor at Nova School of Business and Economics in Lisbon, Portugal.
Research interests: Political Economy, Development, Applied Microeconomics.
Publications
Econometrica, forthcoming
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Media coverage: The Economist, Probable Causation, VoxDev, NBER Digest
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Media coverage: The Economist, VoxEU, EBRD Transition Report 2019-2020 (p. 30-31),
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American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, May 2016, 106 (5): 230-35.
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Media coverage: The Moscow Times
Book chapters & policy pieces
Mobile Broadband: Accountability, Populism, and Misinformation
(with Sergei Guriev, Joana Escórcio Silva, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya)
EconPol Forum 4 | 2025: Policy Debate of the Hour. CESifo.
Political Implications of the Rise of Mobile Broadband Internet [Chapter 5]
(with Sergei Guriev and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya)
In The Political Economy of Social Media. 2023. Eds. Filipe R. Campante, Ruben Durante, and Andrea Tesei. CEPR Press.
Working papers
Reject & resubmit, Review of Economic Studies
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Media coverage: The Boston Globe, Marginal Revolution
Mobile Broadband and the Decline of Incumbency Advantage
(with Sergei Guriev, Joana Escórcio Silva, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya)
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Work in progress
Gang Crackdowns
(with Carlos Schmidt-Padilla and Maria Micaela Sviatschi)
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Job Matching for Crime-Affected Populations
(with Carlos Schmidt-Padilla and Maria Micaela Sviatschi)
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Generation 3G (with Alexey Makarin)
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Politics of U.S. Southern Border Migration (with Tiago Filipe Santos Leitão)
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Organized Crime and Public Goods Provision during a Pandemic
(with Maria Micaela Sviatschi)
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