Research & Expertise

On May 28 Olga Abramova (Research Assistant, CSCR, HSE) took part in the "Culture matters" research seminar with the report "Entrepreneurial and innovative career orientation of students as predictors of intentions to engage in entrepreneurship".

Call for applications! There are 2 PhD positions at the Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO), University of Bremen, Germany, within the Innovative Training Network (ITN) “Mapping Uncertainties, Challenges and Future Opportunities of Emerging Markets: Informal Barriers, Business Environments and Future Trends in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia” (MARKETS) funded by an MSCA grant of the European Union in the context of Horizon 2020

During the seminar, there were discussed several ongoing research projects: 
1) Pavel Serebrennikov - "Interval Methods of DEA and Their Application for Evaluating the Performance of Universities"
2) Anna Rezyapova - "Governance of International Migration"
3) Alina Roman - "Network Analysis of International Trade: 2001-2016"

On Wednesday, May 20 the honorary lecture of the XXI April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development and the all-Russian seminar "Mathematical methods of decision analysis in economics, finance and politics" was held. Y. Shi gave a lecture on "Big Data Analysis: Theory and Applications"

Our colleagues' Kristian Behrens' and Yasusada Murata's paper "Quantifying the gap between equilibrium and optimum under monopolistic competition" (joint with G. Mion and J. Suedekum) has been accepted to The Quarterly Journal of Economics. Congratulations!

On Sunday, May 17 the scientific seminar of the International Centre of Decision Choice and Analysis was held. M. Ermolova discussed the paper on "Sustainable Shadow Banking" of Guillermo Ordonez.

On April 20-21, the two-day online section “Network Analysis” was held as part of the XXI April International Scientific Conference on the Problems of Economic and Social Development, organized by the International laboratory of applied network research. Both days were fruitful and rich in scientific communication: the section brought together researchers from different cities of Russia, Slovenia and the USA.

On Sunday, May 10 the scientific seminar of the International Centre of Decision Choice and Analysis was held. L. Kadyrova on gave a lecture on "Analysis of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on modern society"

This is our pleasure to announce that the National Prize in Applied Economics 2020 was awarded to the article “Democratizing Access to Higher Education in Russia: The Consequences of the Unified State Exam Reform" published in the “European Economic Review” (2019, Volume 117, pages 56-82) by Marco Francesconi (University of Essex, UK), Fabián Slonimczyk (ICEF, HSE, Moscow) and Anna Yurko (ICEF, HSE, Moscow).

Dennis Coates presented the study “Salary Distribution and Team Performance in MLS Soccer” (video is availiable on YouTube!)