This year the conference will feature a new session dedicated to Network Analysis. The session will address theoretical and empirical studies from a broad range of disciplines which rely on network theory or utilize network analysis methods.
Research & Expertise
In October, at the invitation of HSE ISSEK Laboratory for Science and Technology Studies, Dr. Holger Schlör, leading researcher at Jülich Research Centre’s (Forschungszentrum Jülich) Institute of Energy and Climate Research (Germany) spoke to HSE students and staff. According to him, Germany (which the OECD calls “green growth laboratory”) is planning to completely switch to green energy by 2050, generating 80% of energy from renewable sources.
On Wednesday, October 26 the all-Russian seminar "Mathematical methods of decision analysis in economics, finance and politics" was held. Professor William Thomson from the University of Rochester gave a lecture on «Preference manipulations lead to the uniform rule»
The paper "Toward a theory of monopolistic competition" by the MSSE chief research fellow Jacques Thisse and leading research fellow Philip Ushchev (co-authored with Mathieu Parenti from the Université Libre de Bruxelles) has been accepted for publication at the Journal of Economic Theory.
The ANR-Lab members took part in the V All-Russian Congress of Sociology in Yekaterinburg
October 21, Anna A. Mironova (research intern at Lab) successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis "Private intergenerational transfers in different types of households".