Pavel Yakovlev, Ph.D. (CV)

Assistant Professor

Department of Economics and Quantitative Science, Duquesne University.

Research Interests:

Empirically oriented research on economic growth, state and local public finance, political economy, public choice, and defense economics

Fields of Specialization:

Applied Micro, Public, and International Economics

Teaching Experience:

Public Economics, Fall 2006

Principles of Macroeconomics, Fall 2005

International Economics, Summer 2005

Principles of Macroeconomics, Summer 2004

Current Research:

1.      “Arms Trade, Military Spending, and Economic Growth,” forthcoming, Defense and Peace Economics.

2.      “Ideology, Shirking, and the Incumbency Advantage in the U.S. House of Representatives,” revise and resubmit, Atlantic Economic Journal.

3.       “Do Democracies and Dictatorships Value Life Differently in Military Conflicts?” under review, American Economic Review.

4.       “Population Aging, Elderly Migration and Education Spending: Intergenerational Conflict Revisited,” with Mehmet Tosun and Claudia Williamson, working paper.

5.      “On the Institutional and Political Determinants of Stock Volatility,” with Alexei Egorov, work in progress.

6.      “Is National Defense a Public Good,” with Justin Ross, work in progress.

7.      “On the Determinants of Arms Trade,” work in progress.

8.      “The Economics of Torture,” work in progress.

Policy Research:

1.      “2006 Report to Governor Joe Manchin III by the West Virginia Tax Modernization Project,” Yakovlev et al., West Virginia Department of Tax and Revenue, October 30, 2006.

2.      “West Virginia Sales Tax on Food for Home Consumption,” with Mehmet Tosun, West Virginia Business and Economic Review, March 2006, 12: 8-15.

3.      “West Virginia Personal Income Tax: Major Characteristics and Incidence,” with Mehmet Tosun, West Virginia Business and Economic Review, April 2004, 10 (2): 1-7.

4.      “Economic Incidence of the West Virginia Taxes on Gasoline and Special Fuels,” with Mehmet Tosun, West Virginia Business and Economic Review, December 2003, 9 (6): 8-10.

5.      “Taxing Alcohol in West Virginia,” with Mehmet Tosun, West Virginia Business and Economic Review, June 2003, vol. 9.

6.      “Tax Increment Financing and Economic Development,” with Mehmet Tosun, West Virginia Business and Economic Review, Fall 2002, 8 (4).

Books and Book Reviews:

1.      “Retirees and Economic Development in West Virginia” chapter with Mehmet Tosun, Arzu Sen, and Claudia Williamson, forthcoming in Demographic Economics Research Perspectives.

2.      “Three Specific Tax Reforms for Increasing Growth” chapter with Robin Capehart, forthcoming in Unleashing Capitalism: Why Prosperity Stops at the West Virginia State Line and How to Fix It.

3.      David Brunori’s Local Tax Policy: A Federalist Perspective, with Mehmet Tosun, May 2005, Journal of Regional Science 45 (2): 442-444.

Reviewer/Referee:

Journal of Defense and Peace Economics

Contact Information:

Mobile: (304) 376-2870
E-mail: pyakov01@yahoo.com