Silvaplana 2015
24th international Silvaplana Workshop in Political Economy took place in a beautiful Alpine town of Pontresina, Switzerland, on July 25-29, 2015.
Academic achievements of the IIMS and ICSID employees
The HSE selected its best teachers and emloyees who will receive academic bonus payments in 2015.
New publication
An article "The Impacts of Different Regulatory Regimes on the Effectiveness of Public Procurement" was published online in the "International Journal of Public Administration" in July 2015.
The International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (ICSID)
Thomas Remington, Leading Research Fellow at the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (ICSID), told The HSE Look about the projects at ICSID and involvement of students into research.
Which Incentives are Needed by the Bureaucracy and Elites to Promote Economic Growth?
The fourth annual conference of the HSE International Centre for the Study of Institutions and Development recently concluded. Leading researchers from Russia and abroad discussed the effect that institutions, elites and collective action all have on the economies of countries, especially developing economies.
Raiders Love Tradespeople and are Afraid of Lawyers
Russian corporate raiders prefer to operate in regions with developed trade and industrial sectors, but where there are fewer lawyers and non-profit organizations, said Anton Kazun , junior research fellow at the HSE Institute for Industrial and Market Studies International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development, in his paper ‘Corporate raid in Russian regions: indicators and factors’.
International Scholars Reflect on HSE Political Science Conference
The 4th Annual Conference of the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (ICSID) ‘Institutions, Elites and Collective Action in the Developing World’ took place at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow on June 30-July 1, 2015. It was preceded by an EACES-HSE Workshop ‘Political Economy of Development: New Challenges and Perspectives’ on June 29, 2015. Several international researchers have spoken to HSE News Service about the conference and their research projects.
ICSID Conference — an Annual Academic Highlight for Russian Political Economists
On 29th June — 1st July the International Centre for the Study of Institutions and Development (ICSID) at HSE Moscow will hold its fourth annual conference. The theme this year is Institutions, Elites and Collective Action in the Developing World. Michael Rochlitz, Assistant Professor at the School of Political Science at the HSE Faculty of Social Sciences is among the impressive line-up of international specialists in the field who will be speaking at the conference. The HSE English News Service asked him about the focus of the 2015 conference, what new things it has in store and why he thinks it is definitely something to get excited about.
Interview with foreign researcher of the Institute for Industrial and Market Studies
Keiko SUGANUMA, Associate Professor of theCollege of Bioresource Sciences, Department of General Edu
cation,Nihon University (Japan) spoke about her scientific work and life in Russia.
Our colleagues at the 19th Annual ISNIE Conference in Harvard
On June 18 – 20, 2015, 19th Annual Conference of the International Society for New Institutional Economics (ISNIE) was held at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Andrei Yakovlev, Director of the IIMS and ICSID, Ekaterina Borisova, ISCID leading research fellow, and Michael Rochlitz, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, presented their papers at the conference.