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Joint Scientific Workshop

In a joint research event of International Center for Study of Institutions and development and scientific workshop «Political Economy» NES-HSE  held a lecture of Postdoctoral Fellow of the Department of Politics of the Princeton University James Lo on the topic of «Ideological Clarity in Multi-Party Competition: A New Measure and Test Using Election Manifestos»

Lectures by Professor at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Michel Grabisch were held

The lectures on «An Introduction to the Choquet integral» were held from December 2 till December 3.
Speaker: Michel Grabisch (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Generality and cultural variation in the experience of regret

On December 2, Seger Breugelmans, PhD (Assistant Professor at Tilburg University, Netherlands, and Deputy Laboratory Head at ISCL-SCR) took part in “Culture matters” research seminar.

Iuliia Naidenova, Petr Parshakov and Dennis Coates at 84th Annual Meetings of Southern Economic Association

Online education, robots, and automatic cookers: what innovation means to Russians?

Less than a half of our compatriots (45%) know the word “innovation”. Every third Russian either never heard the term before, or has problems defining its meaning. These are the results of the survey of a representative sample of the Russian population (1,670 people aged 16 or older) conducted on 26–29 September, 2014 by Yuri Levada Analytical Centre (commissioned by HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge).

Angel Barajas on the dynamics of intellectual resources during the economic crisis

2nd International Conference on Dynamics of Disasters

Humans experience a wide array of Disasters. Such disasters wreak utter havoc and provoke extensive large-scale devastation. They also carry extremely serious financial repercussions for nations, organizations and thousands of people. In addition, there is often also significant loss of life and infrastructure and property destruction. Therefore the study of dynamics of such disasters is an important and worthwhile endeavor, with huge benefits for nations, organizations, companies and individuals. The conference takes place at Kalamata, Greece on June 29 - July 2, 2015

Second International Conference on "Energy, Sustainability and Climate Change" ESCC 2015

This international conference aims on bringing together leading experts in the fields of optimization and computational methods to discuss recent advancements and trending topics. This year, the conference takes place in the Orthodox Academy of Crete in Chania, Greece on June 21-27, 2015

36,9% (figure of the day)

is the share of total investment in technological innovation that Russian companies devote to research and development. The amount is nearly 411 billion roubles. New data received by the Russian Federal State Statistics Service were analysed by HSE ISSEK Centre for Statistics and Monitoring of S&T and Innovation.

How robust is the association between life satisfaction and value congruence? A study of constructed socio-demographic groups in a Russian national sample.

On November 27, Alena Khaptsova, a doctorate student in the department of Organizational Psychology at HSE and a researcher at the Laboratory for Socio-cultural research, took part in the “Culture matters” seminar.