Anton Bondarev Dr. (PH.D.)

Associate Professor in Economics

Anton is an Associate professor in Economics at IBSS. He acquired his PhD from Bielefeld University concentrating on dynamics of innovations and optimal management of R&D.

Prior to joining XJTLU he served as a Postdoc in different international projects, such as Climate Policy of Nations in Germany, Competence Center for Research in Energy, Society and Transition in Switzerland and others.

Anton's research is focused on endogenous growth, environment, promotion of innovations and optimal governance of large-scale technological transitions, be it renewable energy or modernization of the economy.

He actively publishes in such journals as Automatica (IF=6.150), European Economic Review (ABDC: A*), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control ( ABDC: A*), China Economic Review (ABDC: A), Energy Policy (ABDC: A), Macroeconomic Dynamics (ABDC: A), Journal of Evolutionary Economics (ABDC: A) and others.


  • Dr. rer. pol. (PhD Economics), University of Bielefeld (Bielefeld, Germany) - 2011
  • MSc., Economics, Erasmus University (Rotterdam, Netherlands) - 2006
  • MSc., Economics, Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia) - 2004
  • BSc. , Economics, Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia) - 2002


  • Associate Professor in Economics, IBSS XJTLU (Suzhou, P. R. China) - 2019- current
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Basel (Basel, Switzerland) - 2014-2018
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Bielefeld (Bielefeld, Germany) - 2011-2014
  • Doctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Mathematical Economics (Bielefeld, Germany) - 2007-2011
  • Research Fellow, Institute for Applied Economic Research (Moscow, Russia) - 2005-2007
  • Engineer- Research Assistant, Computational Center of Russian Academy od Sciences (Moscow, Russia) - 2005-2006
  • Researcher, Institute for Open Economy (Moscow, Russia) - 08.2004 - 12.2004


  • Optimal control methods in Economics
  • Economics of climate change (environmental macroeconomics)
  • Resource Economics
  • R&D policy with respect to environment
  • Dynamic games
  • Endogenous growth and technical change


  • Gromov D., Shigoka T. and Bondarev A. (2023) "Optimality and sustainability of hybrid limit cycles in the pollution control problem with regime shifts." Environment, Development and Sustainability, accepted.
  • Bondarev A. and Upmann Th. (2022) "Sliding Modes in the Management of Renewable Resources." Automatica, Vol. 144, pp. 110487
  • Gromov D., Bondarev A. and Gromova E. (2022) "On periodic solution to control problem with time-driven switching", Optimization Letters, Vol. 16, pp. 2019-2031, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11590-021-01749-6
  • Bondarev A. and Greiner A. (2022) "How ongoing structural change creates a double dividend: out-dating of technologies and green growth." Portuguese Economic Journal, Vol. 21, pp. 125-160, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10258-021-00196-6
  • Bondarev A. (2021) "Games without winners: Catching-up with asymmetric spillovers." Dynamic Games and Applicaitons, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 670-703
  • Bondarev A. and Krysiak F. (2021) " Economic development and the structure of cross-technologies interactions." European Economic Review, Vol. 132, 103628, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2020.103628
  • Bondarev A. (2021) "R&D policy in the economy with structural change and heterogeneous spillovers." Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol. 25, No. 5. pp. 1247-1266, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1365100519000646
  • Bondarev A. and Greiner A. (2020) "Global warming and technical change: Multiple steady-states and policy options." China Economic Review, Vol. 62, 101511, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2020.101511.
  • Bondarev A. and Greiner A. (2019) "Endogenous growth and structural change through vertical and horizontal innovations." Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 52-79
  • Bondarev A. (2019) "Robust policy schemes for R&D games with asymmetric information." Dynamic Games and Applications, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 391-415
  • Bondarev A. and Greiner A. (2018) "Catching-up and falling behind: Effects of learning in an R&D differential game with spillovers." Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 91, pp. 134-156
  • Bondarev A. and Weigt H. (2018) "Sensitivity of energy system investments to policy regulation changes: too many, too fast?" Energy Policy, Vol. 119, pp. 196-205
  • Bondarev A. (2018) "Does stronger intellectual property rights protection foster structural change? Effects of heterogeneity in innovations." Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Vol. 46, pp. 26-42
  • Bondarev A. and Greiner A. (2018) "Technology Lock-In with Horizontal and Vertical Innovations Through Limited R&D Spending." A Quaterly Journal of Operations Research, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 51-65
  • Greiner A. and Bondarev A. (2017) "Optimal R&D Investment with Learning-by-Doing: Multiple Steady-States and Thresholds." Optimal Control Applications and Methods, Vol. 38, No. 6, pp. 956-962
  • Bondarev A. (2016) "Intensity of R&D competition and the generation of innovations in heterogeneous setting." Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 621-653
  • Greiner A. and Bondarev A. (2015) "Public debt and aggregate stability with endogenous growth and a state-dependent consumtpion tax." Economics Bulletin, Vol. 35, No. 4, p. A261
  • Bondarev A. (2014) "Endogenous specialization of heterogeneous innovative activities of firms under technological spillovers." Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 38(C), pp. 235-249
  • Bondarev A. (2012) "The long run dynamics of heterogeneous product and process innovations for a multi-product monopolist." Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Vol., No. 8, 775-799


  • Bondarev A. (2008) "Evaluation of Demand Functions for foodstuffs in Russian Economy in 1999-2004." Research paper series 118P, Moscow: IET Works.


  • Bondarev A. and Gromov D. (2021) "On the structure and regularity of optimal solutions in a differential game with regime switching and spillovers". in Veliov V., Haunschmied J., Kovacevic R., Semmler W. (Eds). "Dynamic Economic Problems with Regimes Switches", pp. 187-207, Cham: Springer International Publishing.
  • Bondarev A. and Clemens C. and Greiner A. (2014) "Climate change and technical progress: impact of informational constraints." in Moser, E., Semmler, W., Tragler, G., Veliov, V.M. (Eds.) "Dynamic Optimization in Environmental Economics", pp. 3-37, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
  • Bondarev A. and Greiner A. (2016) "A North-South model with technological spillovers, environmental degradation and structural change." in Bernard L., Nyambuu U. (Eds.) "Dynamic Modeling, Empirical Macroeconomics, and Finance - Essays in Honor of Willi Semmler", pp. 137-161. Cham: Springer International Publishing


  • 2021-2022: MOTOR 2022 conference, Petrozavodsk
  • 2021-2022: GTA2022 conference (online)
  • 2021-2022: OCTA2022 conference (online)
  • 2020-2021: 12th OPTIMA conference, invited plenary lecture (online)
  • 2020-2021: 31st EURO conference (online)
  • 2020-2021: WEAI conference (online)
  • 2020-2021: AMES2021 conference (online)
  • 2020-2021 SURED2020 conference (online)
  • 2019-2020: 11 DGMS Conference, Montreal
  • 2018-2019: Joint ISDG-GTM Conference, St. Peterburg
  • 2018-2019: 30th EURO Conference, Dublin
  • 2018-2019: 10th DGMS conference, Rabat
  • 2017-2018: 29th EURO conference, Valencia
  • 2017-2018: 14th Viennese Conference on Optimal Control and Dynamic Games, Vienna
  • 2017-2018: RES annual conference 2018, Brighton and Hove
  • 2017-2018: AURO Nachwuchsworkshop, Osnabruck
  • 2017-2018: GEOINNO 2018 conference, Barcelona
  • 2016-2017: AURO Nachwuchsworkshop, Basel
  • 2016-2017: Finance and growth in the aftermath of crisis, Milan
  • 2016-2017: 11th ISDG workshop, Warsaw
  • 2016-2017: GTM 2017 conference, St.-Petersburg
  • 2015-2016: 6th Viennese Vintage Workshop, Vienna
  • 2015-2016: 31st EEA Congress, Geneva
  • 2015-2016: 17th ISDG Symposium, Urbino
  • 2015-2016: 22nd Annual EAERE conference, Zuerich
  • 2015-2016: SURED 2016 conference, Banuyl-sur-Mer
  • 2014-2015: 10th ISDG Workshop, Glasgow
  • 2014-2015: 27th EURO conference, Glasgow
  • 2014-2015: 21st Annual EAERE conference, Helsinki
  • 2014-2015: 13th Viennese workshop on optimal control and dynamic games, Vienna
  • 2014-2015: 5th International Ruhr Energy Conference, Essen
  • 2013-2014: 3rd International Conference: Environment and Natural Resources Management in Developing and Transition Economies, Clermont-Ferrand
  • 2013-2014: 16th ISDG Symposium, Amsterdam
  • 2013-2014: 18th T2M conference, Lausanne
  • 2012-2013: 26th EURO conference, Rome
  • 2011-2012: Kiel young researchers conference 2012 ``Did you know that your research is on green growth?", Kiel
  • 2011-2012: 12th Viennese Workshop on optimal control, dynamic games and nonlinear dynamics, Vienna
  • 2010-2011: Seminar in Economic Theory, Utrecht
  • 2009-2010: 11th Workshop on optimal control, dynamic games and nonlinear dynamics, Amsterdam
  • 2009-2010: 5th Joint EBIM Workshop, Bielefeld
  • 2009-2010: Seminaire Microeconomie: Strategie, Marche et Innovation, Paris
  • 2009-2010: Workshop on Open Innovation, Strasbourg
  • 2008-2009: 4th Joint EBIM Workshop, Paris
  • 2007-2008: Doctoral Workshop in Game Theory, Konstanz


  • Bondarev A. and Greiner A., 2020-2023, Principle Investigator, Research Development Fund, RDF-19-01-18: The role of technological spillovers in environmental degradation. Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, ¥76,700
  • Bondarev A., Batinti A., Dogah K., Niu S. and Weigt H., 2020-2023, Principle Investigator, Key Programme Special Fund - Exploratory Research Programme, KSF-E-63:Multiplicity of regimes in dynamics of renewable energy development: Horizons for applications to China energy policy. Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, ¥180,000.


  • 2022-, Programme director for BSc Economics programme at IBSS
  • 2020-, Editorial board member in SN Business and Economics journal
  • Reviewer for: Environmental and Resource Economics, BE Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, Economics of Innovation and New Technology Journal, European Journal of Operations Research, Dynamic Games and Applications, Computational Economics, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Journal of Economics, Energy Policy, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Economic Modelling, Automatica


  • ECO229 Dynamic Methods in Economics (AY2022/2023S2) Module Leader
  • BUS303 Final year project (AY2022/2023)
  • ECO204 Mathematical Economics (AY2023/2024S1) Module leader


  • ECO207 International Labour MArkets Tutorial (AY2022/23S2)
  • ECO321 Environmental Economics (AY2020/2021S1-AY2021/2022S1)
  • ECO229 Dynamic Optimisation (AY2019/2020S2-AY2022/2023S2)
  • BUS303 Final Year Project (AY2019/2020-AY 2022/2023)
  • ECO204 Mathematical Economics (AY2019/2020S1-AY2022/2023S1)
  • ECO308 Financial Economics Tutorial (AY2018/2019S2)
  • ECO120 Principles of Macroeconomics Tutorial (AY2018/2019S2)
  • Environment and Technical Change in Endogenous Growth Theory (Postgraduate level), University of Basel, 2015-2018
  • Resource Economics (Postgraduate level), University of Basel, 2014-2018
  • Environmental Models in Endogenous Growth Theory (Postgraduate level), University of Bielefeld, 2013-2014
  • Optimal Control Models of Technical Progress in Macroeconomics (Postgraduate level), University of Bielefeld, 2012-2013


  • 2021-, Econometric Society
  • 2023 Higher Education Academy
Anton Bondarev