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Our colleagues at the 19th Annual ISNIE Conference in Harvard

On June 18 – 20, 2015, 19th Annual Conference of the International Society for New Institutional Economics (ISNIE) was held at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Andrei Yakovlev, Director of the IIMS and ICSID, Ekaterina Borisova, ISCID leading research fellow, and  Michael Rochlitz, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, presented their papers at the conference.

The 5 th Summer School “Analyzing and reporting cross-cultural data”

On June 11-14, the fifth ISEL SCR summer school was held near Moscow. The summer school was dedicated to group work on the participants’ research project.

A Novel Application of Institutional Anomie Theory

New article written by LCSR associate researches Andreas Hövermann, Eva Groß, and their colleagues titled "Understanding the devaluation of vulnerable groups: A novel application of Institutional Anomie Theory" was published in Social Science Research journal.

IDSchool - Day 4

Day 4 began from the short summary of previous day made by Angel Barajas. He repeated the main things of previous day and given some feedback.

IDSchool - Day 3

The 16th of June was started with interesting presentation of the Summer School Director – Marina Zavertiaeva. She presented the results of her paper conducted in collaboration with Felix Iturriaga and Eugenia Kuminova about the influence of Chief Executive Officer on company’s innovation activity. 

Facts less than meets the eye

On June 16th Professor Steven Durlauf from the University of Wisconsin-Madison presented his paper “Capital in the Twenty-First Century: A Review Essay” to an audience of scholars at the 11th joint Research Seminar on Diversity and Development of the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development HSE and NES Center for the Study of Diversity and Social Interactions.

HSE Student Speaks about Editorial Internship Experiences

Joshua Levy, a first-year student in the Master’s in Governance of Science, Technology and Innovation programme, has taken the initiative to complete an internship at Russia Beyond The Headlines, a multilingual news and information resource published by Rossiyskaya Gazeta. He recently spoke with the HSE news service and told us a little more about his experiences at the newspaper.

Figure of the day: –14%

was the level to which the business confidence index in building materials production fell in May of this year. These data are presented in a new Monitoring the Business Climate in the Construction Sector study that was conducted in the second quarter of 2015 by the Centre for Business Tendency Studies at the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge.

Culture in society, between groups, and across generations

On June 8-9 the International Scientific-Education Laboratory for Sociocultural Research hosted an international conference “Culture in society, between groups, and across generations”. Scientists from Greece, Israel, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, and the USA took part in the conference.

IDSchool - Day 2

The second day has been started with the presentation “Acceleration effect of intangibles in after-crisis recovery”.