International College of Economics and Finance

'A crisis situation can land macroeconomists a big break'

A 2017 graduate of Master’s Programme Financial Economics, Nurdaulet Abilov has stepped up to the position of Kazakhstan’s lead quantitative macroeconomic analyst and is in charge of Nazarbayev University’s Economic Modelling Development Center. In this interview, Nurdaulet reveals why Southern Europe makes a perfect place for studying econometrics, how one can develop a passion for economics by lending money to family, and what anti-crisis strategies are being currently developed by Nazarbayev University.

June 21, 2020

'This Master’s Programme Has Given Me My First Experience of Living Outside Uzbekistan'

Khushnuda Khamidova earned her BSc degree in Economics with Finance in Tashkent before she enrolled in ICEF MSc Programme – the choice she made to gain expert knowledge and life experience.

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June 19, 2020

ICEF Mentoring Programme: summing up the fourth season and planning for the future

Initiated by ICEF Alumni Association Board, the Mentoring Programme was launched in 2016, an endeavour first pioneered by ICEF and currently adhered to by entire HSE.

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June 16, 2020

‘Proctoring Increases Risks for Those Who Want to Copy at Exams’

Albert Belkov, a third-year undergraduate student at HSE ICEF, has taken three proctored exams this spring and summer—in Optimization Theory, Macroeconomics, and Financial Mediation. He shared his experiences with the HSE News Service.

June 15, 2020

This Time is Different: Economic Policy Challenges in the time of COVID-19

A virtual panel discussion was held at ICEF on June 3^rd to discuss the economic consequences and policy responses to Covid-19 with economic experts from academia, central banks and commercial banks, based in Russia, UK, and Austria.

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June 05, 2020

'To see the subject through students’ eyes – that can be called teacher’s success'

Mikhail Zhitlukhin has been working at ICEF since 2014, when the students chose him as one of the best lecturers. Now Mikhail Zhitlukhin is considered one of the best lecturers in Zoom, according to the survey conducted concerning online education in Spring 2020. Moreover, he has published four papers this year. In his interview he told us why the quality of the material is more important than technical issues and how to make statistics really interesting.

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June 04, 2020

‘Moscow, Hong Kong, New York — I have friends from HSE everywhere’

Alexander Aksakov, who graduated from ICEF in 2011, now works as a Senior Associate in the New York office of Credit Suisse. He tells Success Builder how the wedding of an ICEF graduate became a gathering of economists from around the world, how U.S. employers recruit candidates in bars and how to earn an MBA from one of the world’s most prestigious schools.

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June 01, 2020

This Time is Different: Economic Policy Challenges in the time of COVID-19

An online panel discussion by economic experts will be hosted by ICEF on 3 June, 2020

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May 27, 2020

Online Brown Bag Seminar with Roman Zakharenko

Optimal pricing for free-floating shared vehicles

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May 13, 2020

“I’ve managed to combine the applied programme in Erasmus with research possibilities in ICEF”.

In 2018 Vladimir Malygin was awarded master degrees from both ICEF and Erasmus University, Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Now he works as a quant in the Dutch company Aegon. In his interview he told us whatquants do, how it is possible to study for two master’s degrees at the same time, andwhy personal qualities are important for candidates who apply to be quants.

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May 01, 2020