The Seventh ICEF International Conference on Applied Economics

Date: 10 October 2025
Opening of the Conference: 09:00 am (Moscow time)
Location: 11 Pokrovsky Boulevard, building T, room T824, Moscow, Russia (offline)
Language: English

Conference program
10 October 2025

9:00-9:10 Introduction by Maxim Nikitin, Deputy Director for Research, ICEF HSE

9:10-9:50 Spectrum Allocation to Public Operators

Presenter: Rajarshi Bhowal (Nazarbayev University)

9:50-10:30 Purchase Subsidies, Electric Vehicles, and Urban Air Pollution

Presenter: Jindong Pang (Wuhan University)

10:30-11.10 Cultural Constraints on Women’s Productivity

Presenter: Michele Valsecchi (NES)

11:10-11:30 Coffee Break (Room Т810)

11:30-12:10 Quasi-independent directors in Russian publicly traded companies

Presenter: Alexander Muraviev (HSE - St. Petersburg)

12:10-12:50 Examining the Effects of Outside Options on Matching Outcomes in the DA Mechanism

Presenter: Anna Yurko (ICEF HSE)

12:50-13:30 Employment is (not always) Empowerment

Presenter: Alina Shirshikova (HSE)

13:30-14:30 Lunch (Room Т810)

14:30-15:10 Do Multinationals Discriminate?

Presenter: Hao Geng (Wuhan University)

15:10-15:50 Fueling Development: Oil, Financial Deepening and Development

Presenter: Hosny Zoabi (NES)

15:50-16:30 Diversity and Political Participation

Presenter: Ekaterina Kazakova (HSE)

16:30-16:50 Coffee Break (Room Т810)

16:50-17:30 Saving the Separation of Powers: Evidence from the Lawyers' Movement in Pakistan

Presenter: Sultan Mehmood (NES)

17:30-18:10 This Candidate is [MASK]! Prompt-based Sentiment Extraction Using LLMs

Presenter: Fabian Slonimczyk (ICEF HSE)

The Seventh ICEF International Conference on Applied Economics