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Honorary Report by Joseph Fan

On April 7th Professor Joseph Fan delivered an honorary report on ‘Institutions and Organizational Structure:the Case of State-Owned Corporate Pyramids’at the HSE. The event took place as part of the 11th International Conference on the Problems of Economic and Social Development. You can watch a video of the event here.

Honorary Report by Dirk Berg-Schlosser

On April 6th Professor Dirk Berg-Schlosser delivered an honorary report at the HSE 11th International Conference on the Problems of Economic and Social Development. Video of the event added.

Matter of Trust

On April 5th Luigi Luiso gave a special lecture on ‘The Right Amount of Trust’ at the Higher School of Economics. The event was organized as an additional event for the 11th International Conference on the Problems of Economic and Social Development. Video of the event added.

The Search for Explanations

On February 16th the HSE Institute for the Development of Education held a seminar. Professor James Banks gave a report on ‘Race, Ethnicity, and Education:The Search for Explanations’. You can watch a video of the event here.

Research Seminar of the HSE Department of Banking

On February 15th Zuzana Fungáčová, a member of BOFIT —Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition, Helsinki, Finland, presented her reports entitled ‘Market Power in the Russian Banking Industry’and ‘Determinants of bank interest margins in Russia:Does bank ownership matter?’ as part of a research seminar of the HSE Department of Banking. A video of the event has been added.

Games of Social Interactions

On February 1st a research seminar of the HSE International College of Economics and Finance took place. Shlomo Weber, Southern Methodist University, USA, presented his report on ‘Games of Social Interactions with Local and Global Externalities’ at the seminar. You can watch a video of the event here.

’Terrorism Will be Defeated, but Probably not in this Century’

On December 28th a seminar on ‘Mathematical Methods of Analysis in Economics, Business and Politics'took place at the HSE. Tad Krauze, Professor in the Department of Sociology, Hofstra University, Hempstead NY, USA, delivered a lecture entitled ‘On Political Terror and Terrorism’ . Video of the event added.

Nobody Is Innocent

On December 14th Howard Davies, Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), gave a public lecture on ‘The Financial Crisis. Who is to blame?’at the HSE . Video of the event added.

The Rise of the Prosumer

On December 11th, 2009, the latest in our regular series of video conferences took place at the HSE Department of General Sociology as part of the Master’s programme in ‘Sociology of the Public Sphere and Social Communications’. George Ritzer, a prominent sociologist, was the speaker. You can watch a video of the event here .

The Ability to Ask Questions and Get Answers

On December 9th Lord Michael Barber, one of the world’s leading experts in improving the effectiveness of public administration, delivered the first in a series of lectures as guest professor at the Faculty of Public Administration of the Higher School of Economics. Video and presentation slides added.