Alexey Makarin is the Mitsubishi Career Development Assistant Professor in International Management and an Assistant Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Alexey is an applied economist with research interests in political economy, economics of digitization, and international trade. In his work, he examined the economic consequences of the 2014 Russia-Ukraine conflict and the impact of social media on political and individual outcomes.

Before joining MIT Sloan, Alexey was an Assistant Professor at the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF) in Rome, Italy. He is a Research Fellow at CEPR and has published in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, the Economic Journal, the Journal of Development Economics, and the Journal of Public Economics. Beyond academia, his research received attention from media outlets such as the New York Times, Financial Times, The Guardian, NPR, Scientific American, The Atlantic, and Freakonomics, among others.

He received a PhD in economics from Northwestern University in June 2019 and a BA from the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia.