Maria Petrova is an ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), a Research Professor of the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), and a Researcher at the Institute for Political Economy and Governance (IPEG).
She is an applied microeconomist whose research focuses on Information Economics and Political Economy.
She has published various papers in the best academic journals including Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Econometrica, American Political Science Review, etc.
Professor Petrova is a Fellow of the Econometric Society. She is also a Research Fellow of CEPR and Research Affiliate of CESifo.
In the past, she has been a Visiting Associate Research Scholar at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University and was Research Director at the Center for New Media and Society at the New Economic School, Russia (2012-13), where she was also an Assistant/Associate Professor from 2008-2022.
Awards, Grants, and Honors
Elected Fellow of the Econometric Society (2024)
American Economic Journal Best Paper Award in Applied Economics (2021)
ERC Starting Grant, “The Rise and Fall of Populism and Extremism” (2018)
BSE Seed Grant, “Corporal Punishment in Schools, Pro-social Behavior, and Populist Support” (2017)
BSE Seed Grant, “Money and Politics: Individual Incentives and aggregate implications” (2014)