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Simon Commander
Research Fellow

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Commander Simon Commander received his B.A. from Oxford University in 1975 and his PhD from Cambridge University in 1980. From 1988 to 1999, he worked at the World Bank, principally at the World Bank Institute.

He is currently Senior Adviser at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)and Managing Partner at Altura Advisers. He was previously Director of the Centre for New and Emerging Markets at London Business School. He has published widely including books, articles and working papers (see CV).

His research interests include income determination, inflation, labour economics, comparative economic systems, economic policy, economic stabilization.

Simon Commander joined IZA as a Research Fellow in December 1999.
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IZA Discussion Papers:
No. Author(s)
Title
7348  Simon Commander
Olexandr Nikolaychuk
Dmytro Vikhrov
Migration from Ukraine: Brawn or Brain? New Survey Evidence
7041  Simon Commander
Irina Denisova
Are Skills a Constraint on Firms? New Evidence from Russia
6034  Simon Commander
Zlatko Nikoloski
Alexander Plekhanov
Employment Concentration and Resource Allocation: One-Company Towns in Russia
6033  Chiara Amini
Simon Commander
Educational Scores: How Does Russia Fare?
5247  Simon Commander
Zlatko Nikoloski
Institutions and Economic Performance: What Can Be Explained?
2637  Simon Commander
Jan Svejnar
Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance? Evidence from 26 Transition Countries
(revised version published as 'Business Environment, Exports, Ownership, and Firm Performance' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93 (1), 309 - 337)
2294  Rakesh Basant
Simon Commander
Rupert Harrison
Naercio Menezes-Filho
ICT Adoption and Productivity in Developing Countries: New Firm Level Evidence from Brazil and India
1933  Simon Commander
Axel Heitmueller
Laura Tyson
Migrating Workers and Jobs: A Challenge to the European Social Model?
(published in: Giddens, Diamond, Liddle (eds): Global Europe, Social Europe. Polity London, 2006)
1422 
This paper has repeatedly been among the Top 10 monthly downloads. 
Simon Commander
Rupa Chanda
Mari Kangasniemi
L. Alan Winters
Must Skilled Migration Be a Brain Drain? Evidence from the Indian Software Industry
(published in: World Economy, 2008, 31 (2), 187-211)
1074  Fabian Bornhorst
Simon Commander
Regional Unemployment and its Persistence in Transition Countries
1073  Simon Commander
Janos Kollo
The Changing Demand for Skills: Evidence from the Transition
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2008, 16 (2), 199-221. )
809 
This paper has repeatedly been among the Top 10 monthly downloads. 
Simon Commander
Mari Kangasniemi
L. Alan Winters
The Brain Drain: Curse or Boon?
(published in: R. Baldwin and L. A. Winters (eds.), Challenges to Globalisation. NBER and University of Chicago Press, 2004)
 
IZA Policy Papers:
No. Author(s)
Title
52 Simon Commander
A Guide to the Political Economy of Reforming Energy Subsidies
 

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