The Institute for Industrial and Market Studies (IIMS) was founded in April, 1997. The IIMS is one of the first research institutes to have been established at the Higher School of Economics. The Institute focuses on empirical analysis of an enterprises’ behavior and market development, its competition policy, the business climate and relations between business and state.
The Institute comprises:
- a laboratory for market studies (headed by Svetlana Avdasheva );
- a laboratory for financial market studies (headed by Yuriy Danilov );
- a group for monitoring industrial enterprise behavior (headed by Tatyana Dolgopyatova ).
Among other key researchers deserving mention are Boris Kuznetsov, Victoriya Golikova, Ksenia Gonchar and Alexey Zudin.
The director of the Institute is Andrey Yakovlev.