About the Center

The International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (ICSID) founded by Andrei Yakovlev and Timothy M. Frye brings together Russian and foreign experts in economics and political science. Researchers at the Center come from the Institute for Industrial and Market Studies (IIMS) of the National Research University Higher School of Economics and the Harriman Institute (Columbia University) as well as the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Emory University, the George Washington University and Trinity College. The Center, which was established in 2011 thanks to a generous grant from the Russian government cooperates closely with other HSE institutes and departments, including the Faculty of Economic Sciences, and HSE international research laboratories.

Scholars at ICSID are currently implementing a research project "Institutions and human capital as factors in crisis adaptation" which is the Center’s major project for 2024. 
The main research directions of the center are:

• Bureaucratic elites and social and economic development of Russia
• Incentives for bureaucracy in Russia and China
• Collective actions
•  Trust and cultural norms
• Social policy and vocational education
  

  You can find out more about the Center's past projects here.