Mikhail is a PhD candidate in Economics / Junior researcher at CERGE-EI (Czech Republic). He joined the Department of Economics at Princeton University (USA) for the Fall/Winter 2022 as a Visiting Student Research Collaborator.  During 2021-2022, Mikhail visited the banking and finance department at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) and the accounting, finance, and insurance department at KU Leuven (Belgium).

Mikhail's research interests cover empirical banking, financial regulation, political distortions/financial sanctions and macro-finance.

He will be on the 2022-2023 academic job market.