University of California, Los Angeles. Ph.D. in Political Science. June 2021.

Joint Baccalaureate of Higher School of Economics and New Economic School. Bachelor of Arts in Economics, 2015

Arseniy Samsonov is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Ozyegin University in Istanbul, Turkey, where he has worked since 2023. Before this, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the QSMS research group at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in Hungary. Besides that, he was a part-time lecturer at RANEPA, Moscow State University, and the Moscow School for Social and Economic Sciences. He did his PhD in Political Science at UCLA in the United States, and his undergraduate in Economics at the joint program of HSE University and the New Economic School in Moscow, Russia.

Political Economy, Economics of Information, Game Theory

Publications

• 2021 "The fragmentation of views in a democracy." - Economics of Governance 22.3 (2021): 215-256.

Working Papers

• “How can social media limit disinformation?”, submitted

Work in progress

• “Logrolling and the power of single-mindedness” (with Albert Sole Olle and Dimitrios Xefteris).
• “Why dictators love elections” (with Daniel Treisman).

Honors and Awards

• 2020 Hayek Fund for Scholars.
• 2018-2019 Conference travel grants, UCLA.
• 2017-2019 Institute of Humane Studies Ph.D. Fellowship
• 2016 Institute of Humane Studies Ph.D. Scholarship, Graduate Dean Scholarship at UCLA
• 2011 All-Russian Olympiad in Economics, 2nd degree diploma, HSE Olympiad in Economics, 1st degree diploma.

ECON 101 (Mcroeconomics), ECON 407 (Environmental Economics and Policy)