News

The Head of the Laboratory, Elena Shakina has presented Laboratory achievements and future plans on the extended meeting of Academic Council of NRU HSE, Perm branch

Elena Shakina has presented a report on scientific publications of the laboratory for 2014-2016 as well as the laboratory's strategic plans for 2017-2019.

Cross-cultural study of the environmental quality perception of the HSE Campuses in Moscow by the students

On February 2 Kirill Ilnitski (PhD, postdoc at ILSCR) took part in the "Culture matters" research seminar with the report on "Cross-cultural study of the environmental quality perception of the HSE Campuses in Moscow by the students".

Call for papers: European Happiness Days, (Rotterdam, The Netherlands, March 20-22)

Starting on the official UN International Day of Happiness, the Erasmus Happiness Economics Research Organisation will organize the European Happiness Days at the Erasmus University Rotterdam from Monday March 20 until Wednesday March 22, 2017. The deadline for submission is February 9, 2017.

New year – fresh papers!

The new 2017 starts happily with the addition of six fresh-from-press research papers added to the Lab's repository!

International partnership

Andrei Yakovlev, Head of the Institute for Industrial and Market Studies, has joined the Scientific Advisory Board of the Leibniz-ScienceCampus EEGA Project.

Another session of the joint Research Seminar on Diversity and Development

Elena Podkolzina, Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Economics, and Senior Research Fellow, Center for Institutional Studies at HSE, presented her paper "Corruption perception and competition in public procurement: empirical evidence from Russian regions" (co-authored with P. Detkova and A. Tkachenko) on January 31th, 2017.

Research Seminar on February 3, 2017

Topic: Sorting when firms have size
Speaker: Maxim Goryunov (European University Institute, Florence)
The workshop will take place at 3A Kantemirovskaya st., room 358 (3rd floor) at 16:50.

Leading Research Fellow of the ICSID Ekaterina Borisova took part in a research seminar in Lucca (Italy)

Ekaterina presented her paper “Bridging or Bonding? Preferences for Redistribution and Social Capital in Russia” (co-authored with A. Govorun and D. Ivanov) at IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca on December 24th, 2017.

Figure of the day: 73,4%

Figure of the day: 73,4%
of the fundings are spent on technical sciences in Russia. These data were published in the newsletter "The budget allocation for scientific researches and inventions" in the HSE ISSEK "Science, Technology, Innovations" series (in Russian).

Nikon Kurnosov defended his thesis.

Nikon Kurnosov defended his thesis.
Graduate student of mathematical faculty and research-intern of the Laboratory of Algebraic Geometry Kurnosov Nikon successfully defended his Thesis for a degree of Candidate of Science (Ph.D.) entitled "Betti numbers and trianalytic subvarieties of hyperkahler manifolds" on January, 26. Mathematical faculty and Laboratory of Algebraic Geometry congratulates Nikon and his scientific supervisor M.S. Verbitsky.