International College of Economics and Finance

ICEF Academia has welcomed its new class

It’s a fact that ICEF students are awarded two degrees when they graduate. There is, however, a third school many of them attend along with HSE and The University of London – ICEF Academia. Offering a programme of advanced courses, research opportunities, discussion venues and academic career guidance, ICEF Academia traditionally hosts welcome meetings and the year 2020 was not an exception. This year’s event was held online and here is how it went.

October 30, 2020

Pure science: How academic tourism moved online to researchers’ satisfaction

On October 23-24, the International Moscow Finance Conference will open its doors for the ninth time, organized by ICEF in cooperation with the London School of Economics. This year’s speakers include editors of two major economic journals. We talked to Alexei Boulatov, ICEF Full Professor to find out how the quality of scientific events has been influenced by online format, how academic life has changed over the recent months and what themes the research community pursues these days.

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October 21, 2020

Publication in The Review of Economic Studies

An article by ICEF Associate Professor Emiliano Catonini "Self-enforcing agreements and forward induction reasoning" is published in The Review of Economic Studies - one of the top 5 journals in economics. Professor Catonini became the first HSE researcher, whose work was published there

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October 19, 2020

‘A person that works in education must study all the time’

Diana Kolesnikova graduated from ICEF BSc programme in 2011 and went to apply her mathematical skills in unusual fields – education and psychology. Her project called “obraz zhizny” (Russian for “way of life”) received the HSE Alumni Award in 2020 in the “philanthropist” category. In the interview Diana tells us how the right environment helps in studies, why it is important to try out different occupations, what the reasons to study graduates’ experience are, and how it is important not to be afraid to show your opinion to make the university better.

October 08, 2020

Property assembly: Using science to get condo unit owners and developers to be friends

In his recently published study, Roman Zakharenko, an Associate Professor at ICEF, comes up with a way to improve urban economy. He offers a solution to the never-ending conflict around ageing condos that are targets for redevelopment. We asked Roman to tell more about his solution, why multi-storey neighborhoods are doomed and how urban life is affected by vertical systems of power.

October 07, 2020

ICEF Master's Programme Included in Top-100 of QS Business Masters Rankings

MSc in Financial Economics, offered by ICEF, has been ranked 89th out of 166 programmes. In total, five HSE programmes were included in the QS Business Rankings this year.

September 23, 2020

Paper of Emiliano Catonini in Review of Economic Studies

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September 21, 2020

New gender roles, migration as a way of COVID treatment and unemployment benefits that will not discourage work

On September 12 the Third ICEF Conference on Applied Economics on COVID-19 was held online. Experts from Europe and the USA presented their latest research, made some social-economic forecasts and revealed issues, that different countries will face in a short-run perspective. Below read about some of the conclusions and predictions that researchers have made.

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September 15, 2020

"Multinational employers do look at Education section on a resume"

Foreign investment plays a huge role in how quickly Russian businesses will recover from the dragging illness they are plagued by. Acting as providers of investment centralized service is the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF). According to its Senior Vice President of Investment, Mikhail Kireev, HSE FES BSc and ICEF MSc programme graduate, the Fund pursues social returns by currently providing capital to the vaccine development efforts. In this interview to Success Builder, Mikhail shares what RDIF values most in HSE graduates, how it spots investment worthy objects, where to do an international degree when borders are being closed, and what global education is about.

September 11, 2020

'Every Researcher Needs a Department That Keeps Believing in Them'

Hundreds of scholars from all over the world teach and conduct research at HSE University. At the International College of Economics and Finance (ICEF) alone there are more than 30 researchers who hold PhDs from universities outside Russia. One of them is Emiliano Catonini, who completed his second research project this year and is now preparing it for publication. He spoke with the HSE News Service about getting students to put their phones away during lecture, surviving academia, trading energy for economics, and falling in love with Moscow winters.

September 07, 2020