Projects and Research

All ICEF students participate in research activities – Bachelor’s students from their second year, and Master’s students throughout their studies. Students are required to write a course paper: final-year BSc students submit a diploma paper, and final-year MSc students a dissertation. The best students also participate in departmental research activities, acting as research assistants to faculty members, members of joint research projects, and junior research fellows in the research laboratories of Financial Economics and Experimental and Behavioural Economics.

The best pieces of research by ICEF students are published either in the College’s collections of articles or Russian academic journals. ICEF students have regularly won students' research competition both within the Higher School of Economics and nationwide.

ICEF students - winners and prize-winners of the Higher School of Economics student research competition, 2019:

Nomination: «Best bachelor’s work in Economics»

1 place

Anastasia Ruszczyk, 3 year, BSc programme
The effect of production complementarities on public good provision
Supervisor: Steven Kivinen

Nomination: «Best bachelor’s work in Finance»

2 place

Mikhail Govorov, 3 year, BSc programme
The choice of payment method in mergers and acquisitions in information technology sector
Supervisor: Aziza Ulugova

3 place

Philipp Permyakov, 3 year, BSc programme
Bitcoin delta hedged options trading strategies
Supervisor: Vladimir Sokolov

Nomination: «Best master’s/graduate’s work in Finance»

2 place

Alexander Benov, 2 year, MSc programme
The Influence of Media Freedom on Bank Panics during Financial Crises: Cross-Country Analysis
Supervisor: Maria Semenova

3 place

Ksenia Stepanova, 2 year, MSc programme
The drivers of corporate cash holdings and capital structure choice: new evidence.
Supervisor: Maria Kokoreva

ICEF students - winners and prize-winners of the Higher School of Economics student research competition, 2018

Nomination: «Best master’s/graduate’s work in Economics» 

1 place:

Nikita German, 1 year, MSc programme
Fiscal multiplier and the size of government spending shock
Supervisor: Madina Karamysheva

2 place:

Maria Verbetskaya, ICEF BSc programme graduate 2018
Government regulation of the market for higher education
Supervisor: Mark Levin

3 place:

Andrey Zaloilo, ICEF BSc programme graduate 2018
Belief independency and equilibrium refinements in signalling games
Supervisor: Emiliano Catonini

Prize-winner:

Alexander Shirobokov, ICEF MSc programme graduate 2018
Sovereign debt and debt renegotiation
Supervisor: Udara Peiris

Prize-winner:

Arina Mukhamedzyanova, ICEF BSc programme graduate 2018
Poverty level estimation in Russia
Supervisor: Fabian Slonimczyk

Prize-winner:

Irina Tretyakova, ICEF BSc programme graduate 2018
Commuting, migration or both: the role of transportation tariffs
Supervisor: Andrei Dementiev

Nomination: «Best bachelor’s work in Finance»

Prize-winner:

Mikhail Govorov, 3 year, BSc programme 
Банковские кризисы: модель с всеобщей неопределенностью
Supervisor: Ekaterina Kazakova

Nomination: «Best master’s/graduate’s work in Finance»

Prize-winner:

Sergey Filyasov, 2 year, MSc programme
CEO turnover and performance in state-related firms
Supervisor: Fabian Slonimczyk

Best works' archive for the past years >>