Valeriy Marakulin works as a professor and researcher at Sobolev Institute of Mathematics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk. He holds a Ph.D. in Physical and Mathematical Sciences from the Institute of Mathematics, Siberian Branch, in Novosibirsk. Dr. Marakulin obtained his doctorate in Mathematics in 2004 for his thesis “On existence equilibrium theorems in modern economic theory” defended at the Central Economic-Mathematical Institute in Moscow. He has also taught economics and game theory at Novosibirsk State University for over 20 years.

Dr. Marakulin has more than 70 scientific publications and has participated in various Russian and International conferences, such as the World Congresses of Econometric Society in Barcelona (1990) and Tokyo (1995), the European Congresses of Econometric Society in Cambridge (1991), Brussels (1992), Uppsala (1993), and Maastricht (1994). He also participated in European Workshops on General Equilibrium Theory (EWGET) and was awarded three grants from the Economic Education and Research Consortium (EERC) for his investigations into the original contractual approach of general equilibrium.

In 2002, the Expert Committee of the EERC awarded him the Zvi Griliches prize for his paper entitled “Contracts and domination in incomplete markets” as the best study of the year. Dr. Marakulin received fellowships from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy, and from the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.

While in the United States, he plans to further his work in mathematical economics by extending a contractual approach to economies with asymmetrically informed agents and finalizing his research paper entitled “Differential Information Economies: Contract Based Approach and Equilibria” while working with Dr. Nicholas Yannelis, Commerce Distinguished Alumni Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign.