Hosting mega-events like the FIFA World Cup and the Olympics often leads to increased wealth inequality. Denis Ivanov and Gaygysyz Ashyrov show that these events disproportionately benefit the wealthy, exacerbating the gap between rich and poor
Assistant Professor, Corvinus University Budapest / Research Fellow, Vilnius University
Denis's research interests include socio-economic inequality, populism, the political economy of transition, and quantitative methods.
He has received several prestigious awards, including the CKK Research Excellence Award (2024), the Hans Raupach Best Paper Award (2020) at the 12th Joint IOS/EACES Summer Academy on Central and Eastern Europe, and most recently, the EACES Doctoral Award (2024) for the best doctoral dissertation in comparative economic systems.
His work has been published in the European Journal of Political Economy, Comparative Economic Studies, and East European Politics.
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