Research Laboratories
Center for Fundamental Sociology
Objectives: Stimulating fundamental theoretic sociological research, accumulating and integrating efforts of individual researchers, actively introducing scientific results into the educational process, involving students in research work.
Head: Alexander Filippov
Deputy Head: Marina Pugachyova
Contact information: Marina Pugachyova, puma7@yandex.ru
Objectives: The creation of a modern scientific school of corporate financial and economic analysis in Russia on the basis of international achievements of corporate finance theory and methods of modern empirical research of corporate finance solutions; involving the highest achieving students in research and creation of professional information.
Head: Irina Ivashkovskaya
Deputy Head: Elvina Bayburina
Contact information: cfc@cfcenter.ru, Irina Ivashkovskaya, iivashkovskaya@cfcenter.ru, Elvina Bayburina, ebayburina@cfcenter.ru
Financial Engineering & Risk Management Lab
Objectives: Research in contemporary financial engineering, risk management and actuary methods in financial institutions including banks, investment and insurance companies, as well as in real sector companies; stimulating the teachers to actively involve research results (primarily, their own) into the educational process; integration of students into the research process, instilling in them the skills of the creative scientific research and evaluation of the results.
Head: Sergey Smirnov
Contact information: risk@hse.ru
Laboratory for Analysis and Modeling of Institutional Dynamics
Objective: to study economic institutions and institutional changes in the social sphere, primarily in the system of education; to model and carry out scenario analysis of modernization in the system of administration and economic mechanisms in education; to implement analytical support of decisions made by executive bodies in educational and social policy as well as in public administration.
Head: Grigory Andrushchak
Contact information: aprudnikova@hse.ru (Anna Prudnikova)
Laboratory for Applied Studies of Institutions and Social Capital
Objective: to focus the efforts of young researchers on the study of topical academic problems related to the correlation between economic development and civil society. The work of this laboratory is closely connected with the educational process and fosters research skills in students as well as promoting the implementation of the obtained result into educational courses.
Head: Leonid Polishchuk
Contact information: daria.zubareva@gmail.com (Daria Zubareva)
Objectives: To initiate and support economic and interdisciplinary research in behavioural and experimental economics, implement their results into the educational process, to support the integration of the professional community of experimental economists and its reinforcement with young researchers and teachers, involving the highest achieving students in research work.
Head: Alexey Belyanin
Deputy Head: Kirill Pogorelskiy
Contact information: Alexey Belyanin, icef-research@hse.ru
Laboratory for Corporate Innovative Systems Research (Saint Petersburg branch)
Objective: to create a competitive research and educational center which carries out fundamental and applied research in corporate innovative systems and develops recommendations on innovative and industrial policy for lawmaking and executive bodies.
Head: Elena Rogova
Contact information: likis@hse.spb.ru, enuzbauam@hse.spb.ru (Elena Nuzbaum, manager)
Laboratory for Inflation Problems and Economic Growth Research
Objectives: The aim of the Laboratory's activity is to focus young researchers' (teachers and students) efforts on research of the most topical scientific problems of monetary theory and the theory of economic growth. Such activity is closely connected with the educational process and develops students' skills in active research work, while at the same time helping to introduce the obtained results into educational courses and lists of problems discussed at seminars.
Head: Revold Entov
Deputy Head: Vladimir Bessonov
Contact information: Vladimir Bessonov, Bessonov@HSE.Ru
Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Studies in Non-Commercial Sector
Objective: to promote studies in the non-commercial sector, to actively implement them in the educational process, to promote integration among the professional community of civil society researchers and its reinforcement with young researchers and lecturers, as well as to involve the highest achieving students in research and teaching.
Head: Irina Mersiyanova
Laboratory for Labour Market Studies
Objectives: Supporting the interaction of the educational and research processes, development of the modern Russian school of labour economics on the basis of international experience of research into the economics of labour, staff and population, with the use of methods and tools of modern economic analysis.
Head: Sergey Roshchin
Deputy Head: Larisa Smirnykh
Contact information: Larisa Smirnykh, lsmirnykh@hse.ru
Laboratory for Macro-Structural Modeling of the Russian Economy
Objective: to carry out fundamental and applied research in macro-structural economic modeling, including joint projects with the research centers of international universities; to prepare recommendations on the improvement of the state policy, participation in preparation of information and analytical papers and expert work on the basis of academic research; to develop new disciplines for undergraduate and master’s courses and to train postgraduate and doctoral students affiliated with the laboratory.
Head: Grigoriy Kantorovich
Contact information: Julia Smirnova, jsmirnova@hse.ru, (495)771-32-27*1128
Laboratory for Research in Business Communications
Objectives: The key task of the Laboratory is to unite students and teachers from difference HSE faculties who are studying the opportunities for integrated communications to positively influence the business climate in the country as well as restoring trust between the business community and the state, the state and society, society and business etc. The task of the Laboratory is providing a place for research to build a professional community in the area of communications at the HSE .
Head: Iosif Dzyaloshinski
Contact information: lbc.mail@yandex.ru
Laboratory for Studies in Economic Sociology
Objectives: The key objective of the Laboratory is the stimulation of economic and sociological research; a more active implementation of their results in the educational process; helping the integration of the professional community of economists-sociologists as well as reinforcing it among young researchers and teachers; involving the highest achieving students in research and teaching.
Head: Vadim Radayev
Deputy Head: Svetlana Barsukova
Contact information: Vadim Radaev, radaev@hse.ru; Elena Alexandrova, Manager, ealexandrova@hse.ru
Laboratory of Decision Choice and Analysis
Objectives: Fundamental and applied research, expertise and consultations on theory and practice of choice, analysis and support of decisions; use of research work and its results in the educational process: creation of new courses and modernization of existing courses in disciplines connected with decision making theory, attracting HSE students to the practical activities of the Laboratory, which are carried out in the forms of pre-degree practice, term papers, preparation of diplomas or thesis.
Head: Fuad Aleskerov
Deputy Head: Andrey Subochev
Contact information: fuad_aleskerov2001@yahoo.com; dhm-econ@hse.ru
Laboratory of Entrepreneurship Research
Objective: to stimulate interdisciplinary studies of entrepreneurship as a complex socio-economic phenomenon, to actively implement their results into the educational process, to promote integration of the professional community and its reinforcement by young researchers and teachers, to involve the highest acheiving students in research and teaching.
Academic Supervisor: Alexander Chepurenko
Head of the laboratory: Olga Obraztsova
Contact information: Tatyana Chernyshkova, tachernyshkova@hse.ru, (495)772-9590*2002.
Laboratory of Information Law
Objectives: to promote fundamental research in law development in the information society; to promote development of the Russian national school of information law, telecommunication law and computer law in the context of information technology development; to stimulate applied studies in information law; to actively introduce the results of research in the educational process. The work of the laboratory aims to attract outstanding students to academic research and teaching.
Head: Irina Bogdanovskaya
Contact information: ibogdanovskaya@hse.ru
Laboratory of Institutional Analysis (LIA)
Objectives: Stimulating HSE teachers and staff members' academic activity; bridging the gap between teaching and research activities; involving the highest achieving students in research and forming the institution of the academic career in the modern research university; carrying out research on a broad range of topics related to institutional analysis and its applications.
Academic Supervisor: Yaroslav Kuzminov
Head: Maria Yudkevich
Contact information: Yana Kozmina, lia@hse.ru
Laboratory of Investment Analysis (Perm branch)
Objectives: Development of research activities with students in the area of developing methods of evaluation and analysis of investment activity in corporate and public sectors.
Head: Andrey Emelyanov
Deputy Head: Valeriy Arkhipov
Contact information: Andrey Emelyanov, emelyanovam@rambler.ru
Laboratory of Linguo-Semiotic Studies
Objectives: Development of linguistic methods of research in various aspects of culture and interaction between cultural traditions
Head: Boris Uspensky
Contact information: Boris Uspensky, buspenskiy@hse.ru
Laboratory of Macroeconomic Analysis
Objectives: Purposeful input in the creation of the academic environment in the HSE; creation of the conditions for individual and group research activities in macroeconomics at the HSE; systematic involvement of the students in research into macroeconomics.
Head: Lev Lubimov
Deputy Head: Sergey Pekarskiy
Contact information: Sergey Pekarskiy, spekarski@hse.ru
Laboratory of Network Organizational Forms
The strategic goal of the laboratory’s work is to create an effective mechanism of development and distribution in the professional sphere of cutting-edge theoretical approaches and practical technologies of network structures management.
Head: Marina Sheresheva
Contact information: msheresheva@hse.ru
Laboratory of Political Studies
Objectives: Stimulating the joint research work of teachers and students of the Faculty of Applied Political Science; supporting the building of the Faculty's scientific school through increasing the role of research in the Faculty's activities, activating scientific discussions, elaborating general research approaches and quality standards etc.; supporting the creation of a quality staff reserve at the faculty in from the highest achieving students.
Head: Valeriya Kasamara
Contact information: Valeriya Kasamara, vkasamara@hse.ru
Laboratory of Quantitative Analysis and Modeling of Economy (Nizhny Novgorod branch)
Objectives: development of HSE NN branch students' analytical competencies in economics and finance through participation in research projects and educational work.
Head: Andrey Silayev
Deputy Head: Oleg Poldin
Contact information: Andrey Silayev, asilaev@hse.nnov.ru phone (831) 416-95-48
Laboratory of Social and Demographic Policies
Objectives: The main theme of research at the Laboratory is the development of suggestions for the improvement of management in the key areas of social and demographic policies (family, migration, health care etc.) in Russia and its regions.
Head: Anatoly Vishnevsky
Contact information: demograf-seminar@yandex.ru
International Scientific-Educational Laboratory for Socio-Cultural Research
Objectives: Research in social, economic and cross-cultural psychology, active implementation of their results in the educational process, involving the most interested students in research. The key object of research at the Laboratory is the socio-cultural factors of economic development.
Heads: Peter Schmidt, Nadezhda Lebedeva
Academic Supervisor: Shalom Schwartz
Contact information: Nadezhda Lebedeva, nlebedeva@hse.ru
Laboratory of Theoretical Research in Law and State
Objectives: Integration of researchers representing the Russian "libertarian law" scientific school; creation of modern legal dogma, including the legal theory of the state; supporting the teaching of theoretical jurisprudence at the Faculty of Law and other HSE faculties.
Head: Vladimir Chetvernin
Contact information: Vladimir Chetvernin, chetvernin@rambler.ru
Laboratory of Theory and Practice of Decision-Making Support Systems (Nizhny Novgorod branch)
Objectives: Creation of an effective mechanism of development and distribution in education and the professional environment of cutting-edge theoretical methods and practical technologies of decision-making support with the use of ICT and through the development of project-oriented educational programmes, attracting HSE NN branch teachers to research and investigate effective solutions for important practical problem situations, launch of new, and support of existing, fundamental and applied research projects in the area of decision-making support systems.
Head: Eduard Babkin
Contact information: babkin@hse.nnov.ru, ebabkin@hse.nnov.ru
Research Laboratory of Sociology in Education and Science (Saint Petersburg branch)
Objectives: Integration of educational and research work, support of fundamental and applied research, implementation of these results into the educational process, involving the highest achieving students in research projects and teaching, development of new forms of educational and research work.
Head: Daniil Aleksandrov
Deputy Head: Svetlana Savelieva
Contact information: slon@hse.spb.ru, phone (812) 400-13-47


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