Research & Expertise

On December 4, a forum on developments in science, technology and innovation (STI) was held in Pretoria, South Africa. There, a 10-year development plan was presented, based on an S&T foresight commissioned by the South African government and developed by the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge.

A new article by Michael Rochlitz, Professor at the University of Bremen and ICSID associate fellow, and Nikolay Petrov, Professor in the HSE School of Politics and Governance, "Control Over the Security Services in Periods of Political Uncertainty: A Comparative Study of Russia and China" was published in Russian Politics

Olesya Volchenko, Junior Research Fellow at LCSR, has received a PhD in Sociology. Congratualtions!

The article by Andrei Yakovlev and Anton Aisin "Friends or Foes? The Effect of Governor-Siloviki Interaction on Economic Growth in Russian Regions" was published in the 4th volume of the Russian Politics (RUPO).

51st Annual Convention of Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies was held in San Francisco (USA) on November 23-26, 2019. ICSID staff members Andrei Yakovlev, Ekaterina Borisova, Israel Marques, Amanda Zadorian and Guzel Gariffulina as well as ICSID associate fellows Michael Rochlitz and Alexander Libman took part in the convention.

On November 26 Tuchina Oksana Roaldovna (Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Professor, Kuban State Technological University) took part in the "Culture matters" research seminar with the report "The psychological aspect of self-understanding of national identity in the context of historical experience in the post-Soviet space".

The Laboratory for Comparative Social Research of the National Research University Higher School of Economics announces a call for the 10th LCSR International Workshop, which will be held within the XXI April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development. It will take place in Moscow from the 6th till 10th of April 2019. The submission deadline is December 20, 2019.

On Wednesday, November 20 the all-Russian seminar "Mathematical methods of decision analysis in economics, finance and politics" was held. A. Bulatov gave a lecture on "Optimal Mechanism with Asymmetrically Budget Constrained Buyers".

Novermber 14th 2019 were chosen the finalists of the 23rd Mobius Contest.

On November 12-15, the Autumn school on modern methods and models of the individual and collective choice and decision-making theory with application to network data analysis, aggregation problems, influence indices was opened. The event is organized by the International Laboratory of Decision Choice and Analysis (DeCAn lab). Among the invited lecturers there are outstanding academics and researchers: Hans Peters (Maastricht University, Netherlands), Kanak Patel (Cambridge University, UK), Laszlo Koczy (Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungary), Anna Khmelnitskaya (St Petersburg University, Russia), Peter Emerson (de Borda Institute, UK).