International Laboratories
Laboratory for Comparative Social Research
The Laboratory aims at developing rigorous quantitative comparative (cross-country and cross-regional) studies in Russian sociology. Joint effort of international and Russian scholars in the Laboratory will bring comparative sociology in the Higher School of Economics to the forefront of international research. The focus of research will be on comparative studies of social change – the analysis of cross-sectional and longitudinal data.
Head of the Laboratory (Scientific Adviser): Ronald Inglehart - President of the World Values Survey Association; Fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Professor: Christian Welzel - Chair for Political Culture Research, Leuphana University Lueneburg, Germany; Tenured Professor at the HSE, St. Petersburg; Vice President of the World Values Survey Association, Stockholm, Sweden.
Director: Eduard Ponarin - Professor at the HSE Department of Sociology; Professor at the Department of Political Sciences and Sociology, EUSP.
Laboratory of Algebraic Geometry and its Applications
Algebraic geometry is one of the most active fields of mathematics. Since its foundation, the Laboratory strives to attract the best scientific minds working in algebraic geometry, in Russia and abroad. The conferences organized by the Laboratory would serve to disseminate the knowledge (both already obtained and newly created); a rich network of international contacts would help to establish its reputation as a major center of science.
Academic Supervisor: Fedor Bogomolov - Full Professor at the Courant Institute, New York.
Head of the Laboratory: Misha Verbitsky - Associate Professor at the HSE Faculty of Mathematics, Department of Geometry.
Laboratory of Theory of Markets and Spatial Economics (Saint Petersburg)
The Laboratory aims at getting meaningful results in economic theory and empirical research. It based on a new class of models of market systems with free entry.
The main tasks
- the study of new possibilities of the monopolistically competitive markets under removal of restrictions on the constant elasticity of substitution between goods in consumption;
- extended analysis of the model of monopolistically competitive markets by including it in models of endogenous growth and multi-product output;
- study of the nature of asymmetric solutions agglomeration model of core-periphery type;
- empirical study of Russian interregional and international trade accounting for heterogenity of firms, sectors and trade flows;
- development and testing of computable general equilibrium models in the regions.
Academic Supervisor: Jacques-Francois Thisse
Director: Vladimir Matveenko
Laboratory of Decision Choice and Analysis
The Laboratory's main research and development areas are: theory of individual, social and multicriteria choice; mathematical modeling and empirical analysis of decision making in various economic and political institutions and institutional systems; game-theoretical models and methods in economics, political economy and political science; data analysis (methods of clustering, pattern recognition etc.)
Head of the Laboratory: Fuad Aleskerov - Tenured Professor at the HSE; Head of the HSE Faculty of Economics Department of Higher Mathematics; Academic Supervisor at the School of Applied Mathematics and Information Science.
Chief Research Fellow: Eric Maskin - Nobel Prize winner in Economics, 2007; Honorary Professor at the HSE; Albert O. Hirschman Professor of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study; Visiting Lecturer in Economics, Princeton University.
Laboratory of Algorithms and Technologies for Networks Analysis
Laboratory of Algorithms and Technologies for Networks Analysis (LATNA) was created in October, 2011 at the Higher School of Economics. It is an independent body of researchers and teachers, under direction of Professor Panos M. Pardalos (University of Florida, USA), funded from a grant by the Ministry of Science of Russian Federation.The purpose of the laboratory is scientific research and establishment of international relations in the field of algorithms and techniques on algorithms and technologies for networks analysis for fundamental and applied research.
Head of the Laboratory: Boris Goldengorin - Professor at the Faculty of Business Informatics and Applied Mathematics (HSE Branch in Nizhny Novgorod), Department of Applied Mathematics and Informatics
Academic Supervisor: Panos M. Pardalos - Distinguished Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida, Director of the Center for Applied Optimization.
Laboratory for Economics of Innovation
Key objective of the Laboratory is the development of the theory for economics of innovation and elaboration of the applied instruments and concepts for the evidence-based innovation policy.
Laboratory Heads:
Ian Miles – Head of the Research laboratory for Economics of Innovation, Professor of Technological Innovation and Social Change at the University of Manchester;
Leonid Gokhberg – First Vice Rector of the HSE, Director of the ISSEK, HSE;
Tatiana Kouznetsova – Director of the Centre for S&T, Innovation and Information Policy, ISSEK, HSE.
Laboratory for Science and Technology Studies
The LST research entity aims at conducting pioneer studies on evidence-based science, technology and innovation policy. The balance between solid scientific work and user-oriented projects for various stakeholders on the national and international level is another crucial factor of success which quarantees the Lab a unique advantage both in Russia and worldwide.
Laboratory Heads:
Jean Guinet - Head of the Research Laboratory for Science and Technology Studies, HSE;
Alexander Sokolov - Tenured Professor at the HSE; Professor at the HSE Faculty of Public Administration Department of Science and Innovations Administration; Deputy Director of the HSE ISSEK; Director of the International Research and Educational Foresight Centre;
Oleg Karasev - Deputy Director of the International Research and Educational Foresight Centre.
Laboratory for Educational Policy Research
The Laboratory aims to carry out research in education through the use of modern methods. The laboratory works in cooperation with leading international researchers on projects related to evaluation of education quality and economics of education and educational policy.
Academic Supervisor of the Laboratory: Martin Carnoy - Professor of Education at the Stanford University.
Center for the Study of Institutions and Development
The International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (CSID) brings together Russian and foreign experts in economics and political science to conduct cutting edge research on development. Current projects for the period 2011-13 examine the career trajectories of regional bureaucrats in Russia, the impact of police reform in Moscow, and the influence of legality and violence on firm behavior.
Academic Supervisor of the Laboratory: Timothy Frye - Director, Harriman Institute, Columbia University;
Director: Andrei Yakovlev - HSE Vice Rector, Director of Institute for Industrial and Market Studies.
Laboratory of Socio-Cultural Research
Major activities of the Laboratory include investigating the impact of culture (cultural values and socio-cultural context) on socio-economic development; investigating socio-cultural conditioning of economic consciousness and behavior; developing a unified concept of cultural dimensions that would integrate existing concepts and approaches; developing new methods for socio-psychological and cross-cultural research.
Laboratory Heads:
Nadezhda Lebedeva, Professor at the HSE;
Peter Schmidt, Professor at the Giessen University (Germany).
Scientific Supervisor of the Laboratory:
Shalom Schwartz, Professor at the Hebrew University (Israel).
Laboratory for Institutional Analysis of Economic Reforms
The Research Laboratory for Institutional Analysis of Economic Reforms (LIA) brings together faculty, post-graduates and students from the HSE departments of Economics, Sociology, Public and Municipal Administration; their professional interests are focused on institutional analysis of different markets and sectors of the economy. The Lab’s researchers engage both in their own research and LIA-wide projects, including Economics of Education, Economics of Bureaucracy, Institutional analysis of Banking and Economics of NGOs.
Head of the Laboratory: Maria Yudkevich - Vice Rector of the HSE, Deputy Director of the Institute for Institutional Analysis;
Academic Supervisor, Leading Research Fellow: John V. Nye - Professor of Economics, George Mason University, and Frédéric Bastiat Chair in Political Economy, Mercatus Center.
Laboratory for Strategic Behaviour and Institutional Design
From an institutional design perspective, the rules of the game are the key feature of interest. Given certain rules of the game, the players will (inter)act in a certain way, by changing these rules the behaviour changes and so will be the outcome. The institutional design question therefore is one where we ask which rules of the game produce the best outcome evaluated from the perspective of either consumer or overall welfare. This perspective is very general and can be applied to many different areas of interest, depending on the specialization of the researchers involved in the project. In this research laboratory we focus on several subjects, as these are the areas of expertise of the permanent researchers involved: consumer search, auctions and networks.
Laboratory Heads:
Maarten Janssen - Professor of Microeconomic Theory, University of Vienna;
Alexei Parakhonyak - Erasmus University Rotterdam and Tinbergen Institute PhD Student/Research Assistant (AIO).
Laboratory of Financial Economics
The goal of the International Laboratory of Financial Economics (LFE) is to support academic research in finance at best international standards in Russia, particularly but not exclusively with a focus on emerging financial markets.
Head of the Laboratory: Carsten Sprenger
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