International Programme in Economics and Finance

On November 28, 2025, the International College of Economics and Finance (ICEF) of HSE University hosted the 14th International Moscow Finance Conference. The event brought together many leading researchers in financial economics. The program featured three regular sessions focusing on cutting‑edge topics in contemporary finance research and a keynote address by Allen N. Berger, Professor of Finance at the University of South Carolina (USA).

In late October, the academics of ICEF HSE and FES HSE went to Wuhan University (China) for the Wuhan University – HSE Joint Workshop on Applied Economics, a venue that has brought together the economics researchers of the two universities.

October 10, 2025 ICEF held the Seventh ICEF International Conference on Applied Economics at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. The conference was held in offline format with the participation of researchers from leading Russian and foreign universities, which contributed to the exchange of ideas among academics doing state-of-the-art research on applied economics including industrial organization, the economics of education and labour, environmental economics and energy transition, empirical analysis of legal institutions and corporate governance.

In late August, ICEF HSE hosted a delegation from the Vietnam National University–University of Economics and Business (VNU-UEB), Hanoi.
The visit resulted in the signing of a student exchange agreement designed to strengthen cooperation between the two institutions.