Maria Petrova

ICREA-UPF and BSE

PhD, Harvard University

Research interests

  • Political Economy
  • Media Economics
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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.

Professor Petrova is a Fellow of the Econometric Society. She is also a Research Fellow of CEPR and Research Affiliate of CESifo.

Petrova serves on the Board of Directors of the Review of Economic Studies.

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)

Working Papers

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Ruben Enikolopov,Maria Petrova, andGiacomo A.M. Ponzetto
BSE Working Paper 596
September 2015

Publications

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Ruben Enikolopov, Maria Petrova, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
Annual Review of Economics

December 2021
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Maria Petrova, Ananya Sen, and Pinar N. Yildirim
Management Science

June 2021
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Georgy Egorov, Ruben Enikolopov, Alexey Makarin, and Maria Petrova
Journal of Public Economics

February 2021
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Ruben Enikolopov, Alexey Makarin, and Maria Petrova
Econometrica

May 2020
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Ruben Enikolopov, Maria Petrova, and Konstantin Sonin
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

February 2018
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Maja Adena, Ruben Enikolopov, Maria Petrova, Veronica Santarosa, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
Quarterly Journal of Economics

August 2017
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Art Durnev, Ruben Enikolopov, Maria Petrova, and Veronica Santarosa
Journal of Corporate Finance

December 2015
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Stefano DellaVigna, Ruben Enikolopov, Vera Mironova, Maria Petrova, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

December 2015
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Ruben Enikolopov, Maria Petrova, and Sergey Stepanov
Journal of Banking & Finance

December 2015
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Ruben Enikolopov, Vasily Korovkin, Maria Petrova, Konstantin Sonin, and Alexei Zakharov
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

January 2013

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