Alumni Profiles

Galina Vereshchagina is currently Assistant Professor of Economics at Arizona State University. Prior to 2007, she was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Iowa. After completing her M.Sc. in Mathematics in 1998 at National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Ukraine, she studied economics at to CERGE-EI, graduating with a PhD in 2004. Her dissertation entitled “Entrepreneurial Choice and Firm Dynamics” reveals Galina’s main research interests, which are Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics. Galina is the author of several working papers and her article “Risk Taking by Entrepreneurs” (with Hugo Hopenhayn) was published in the American Economic Review in 2009.