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Winners of the National Award in Applied Economics 2016 Announced

The prestigious National Award has been granted to Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Professor at the Paris School of Economics, and Evgeny Yakovlev, Professor and Director of the New Economic School Data Centre, for their paper ‘The Unequal Enforcement Of Liberalization: Evidence From Russia's Reform Of Business Regulation’*. The National Award in Applied Economics is given once every two years for outstanding published papers that analyse the Russian economy at the country, industry, regional, or company level.

Andrei Yakovlev turns 50!

On February 26, the Director of the HSE International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development, Andrei Yakovlev, celebrated his 50th birthday.

Young Scholar Explores the Effect of Weak Institutions on Support for Social Policy

On January 26, Israel Marques, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the HSE International Centre for the Study of Institutions and Development, delivered a lecture at HSE St. Petersburg entitled ‘Institutional Qualities and Individual Preferences in Social Policy’. Following the lecture, he agreed to speak with the HSE news service about his research interests, his time at HSE and his experience living and working in Russia.

Top-15. Most interesting research at HSE in 2015

Papers by several IIMS research fellows were included in the list of top 15 research projects of HSE in 2015, according to Opec.ru.

ASSA Meeting in San Francisco

ICSID post-doc research fellow Israel Marques took part in the meeting of the Allied Social Sciences Association that was held in San Francisco, USA, on January 2, 2016.

HSE has been a great home base for me to return and recharge my batteries

Elizabeth Plantan, Ph.D. candidate in Government at Cornell University, discusses her work at the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (ICSID HSE) and life in Russia.

Another joint ICSID-CSDSI seminar

Tatyana Mikhailova, assistant professor at Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, presented her paper “Geography of import transportation routes in Russia: the choice of an entry point” at the joint ICSID-CSDSI workshop held at Malaya Ordynka on November 3rd. That was the 14th event in the series of ICSID-CSDSI seminars on Diversity and Development.

Catch up and rule

What exactly unites the countries that underwent “an economic miracle” (China, South Korea and Chile) and what are prerequisites for such dramatic economic developments? This was the topic of a lecture given by IEMS director and ARETT president Andrei Yakovlev at InLiberty.ru “Faculty of Economics” project.

Management Decentralization Contributes to Better Business

Companies with decentralized management systems are, on average, more effective than firms where the CEO tries to control everything. The risk of centralization is higher if the company is managed by families. These were the main findings of the recent research by Irina Levina, research fellow at the HSE Institute for Industrial and Market Studies.

ICSID-CSDSI workshop

International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development and NES Center for the Study of Diversity and Social Interactions continue their series of joint research seminars held at the ICSID new office at 17 Malaya Ordynka once every two weeks.