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Speaker: Katarína Cechlárová (Professor, P. J. Šafárik University Košice, Faculty of Science, Slovakia)
Title: The Teachers Assignment Problem

Speaker: Peter Biro (Research fellow, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
Title: Computational aspect of matching problems under preferences

 The workshop "Psycho- and neurolinguistic approaches to the grammar-lexicon distinction" took place on October 1-3, in the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

"Empirical Analysis of the Public Procurement System in Russia" is a title of a new book edited by A. A. Yakovlev, O. A. Demidova and E. A. Podkolzina. Presentation and discussion of the book took place at the Institute for Industrial and Market Studies on September 30th. 

Over the past three years, the business climate in Russia has improved for companies with a long planning horizon and for those receiving government support. State-owned companies, however, have been worse off after losing their privileges and facing a level playing field, according to Andrei Yakovlev, director of the HSE Institute for Industrial and Market Studies, Irina Levina, research fellow at the same Institute, and Anastasia Kazun, postgraduate student at the HSE Faculty of Social Sciences.

On October 1, Olga Poluektova took part in the “Culture matters” seminar with a talk on the heterogeneity of poverty on psychological level.

Professor Enno Mammen (Heidelberg University)

While studying for an MA in the Governance of Science, Technology, and Innovation at the Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge, students can put themselves forward for internships in leading innovative companies, state agencies, or international organizations. This year, five candidates were shortlisted in preliminary selection rounds and Anastasia Trunina was the one chosen to do an internship at OECD. She has spoken to HSE News about the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology, and Innovation projects she was involved in this summer.

Prof. Stefano Cappa is from Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy

of entrepreneurs working in the service sector noted insufficient demand for their services in the third quarter of 2015. 40% cited this as a problem at the beginning of the year. These data are presented in the new Monitoring the Business Climate in the Service Sector study that was conducted in the third quarter of 2015 by the Centre for Business Tendency Studies at the HSE ISSEK.