Research & Expertise
HSE bulletin Okna Rosta took an interview with Professor Andrei Yakovlev, Director of the HSE Institute for Industrial and Market Studies and member of the Programme Committee of the April Conference on Economic and Social Development, about the origins of the conference and how it changed and expanded over the years.
Some of the ICSID researchers took part in the annual European Public Choice Society (EPCS) Conference, which was held in Budapest at the Central European University on 19-22 April, 2017.
Martin Luther King famously said that the arc of history is bending toward justice - a statement sometimes dismissed as too idealistic but one that may actually have a basis in social science. More than thirty years of research by Ronald Inglehart suggest that, in the long run, democratisation, with its attendant social and legal justice, is inevitable. But how long is that long run? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Ronald Inglehart, Academic Supervisor of Laboratory for Comparative Social Research at the Higher School of Economics (HSE) during XVIII April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development.
April 18-20 the IV International Research Conference "Culture in society, between groups and across generations", organized by the International Laboratory for Socio-Cultural Research at the Expert Institute of the Higher School of Economics took place in Moscow.
On April 20 Evgeny Tartakovsky (PhD, Senior Lecturer, Tel-Aviv University, The School of Social Work) took part in the "Culture matters" research seminar with the report on "Psychological characteristics of Russian Jews: values, identities, and emigration intentions".
On April 17 Ilja van Beest (PhD, professor, Department of Social Psychology, Tilburg University, Netherlands) took part in the "Culture matters" research seminar with the report on "Deception".
Denis Ivanov, ICSID Research Fellow, presented his paper "Do institutions cause social trust? Evidence from an institutional reform" on April 18, 2017.
The course of lectures on "Markov Chain Models in Economics, Management and Finance" will be held from April 18, 2017 to April 28, 2017.
On Wednesday, April 19 the all-Russian seminar "Mathematical methods of decision analysis in economics, finance and politics" was held. Professor Andranik Tangian (WSI in the Hans-Böckler-Foundation, Düsseldorf, and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) gave a lecture on «The third vote experiment: VAA-based election to enhance policy representation of the KIT student parliament»