Staff profile

Dr Vsevolod (Seva) Ostapenko is an Assistant Professor on the education track. His broad area of specialisation is Macroeconomics. Before joining Durham University Business School in 2023, he was affiliated with St. Petersburg University and held a visiting position at St. Petersburg campus of the Higher School of Economics.

Vsevolod's professional experience spans more than nine years, and includes teaching various disciplines within Economics, module design and curriculum development. He has an extensive background in creating special courses devoted to applied macroeconomic policy issues, having delivered a series of guest lectures at Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg in 2019. With a track record of working within the Liberal Arts educational model, Vsevolod has been a member of the Smolny Beyond Borders initiative since fall 2022.

Vsevolod currently serves as the Programme Director of MSc Economics, Year Tutor and Placement Tutor for Undergraduate Economics students. He teaches the following modules:

• Macroeconomics (2nd year BA Economics)
• Global Economic History (1st year BA Economics)
• Introduction to Economics (pre-sessional online module for MSc Economics)

• Macroeconomics and macroeconomic policy
• Monetary economics
• History of macroeconomic theory
• Industrial policy and structural transformation

Chapter in book

• Ostapenko, V. (2020). 探寻加快俄罗斯经济增速的药方：国家项目的潜力. In Survey on the Development of the Russian Economy (2019-2020) (74-96)
• Ostapenko, V. (2019). 財政政策及其在確保俄羅斯經濟增長中的作用. In Survey on the Development of the Russian Economy (2018-2019) (63-81). Center for the Russian Studies of Renmin University of China

Journal Article

• Ostapenko, V. M., & Buglevsky, E. A. (2022). Money supply in the history of macroeconomic thought: 50 shades of endogeneity. Journal of the New Economic Association, 55(3), 156-176. https://doi.org/10.31737/2221-2264-2022-55-3-8
• Grishchenko, V., Ostapenko, V., Tkachev, V., & Tunyov, V. (2021). Modern Monetary Theory (MMT): New Paradigm or a Set of Recommendations for Macroeconomic Policy?. Ekonomicheskaya Politika, 16(3), 8-43. https://doi.org/10.18288/1994-5124-2021-3-8-43
• Vymyatnina, Y., Grishchenko, V., Ostapenko, V., & Ryazanov, V. T. (2018). Financial Instability and Economic Crises: Lessons from Minsky. Ekonomicheskaya Politika, 4, 20-41