MSc students defended their theses

Diploma theses defenses of MSc students took place at ICEF. 27 students successfully defended their theses, 14 students received excellent marks and 12 students – good marks. Following 7 students received top grades in their groups:

1) Ivan Abramov

Topic: «Predicting Asset Return with Liquidity»
Supervisor: Sergey Gelman, PhD University of Muenster

2) Ivan Vereshagin

Topic: «Bond Risk Premia and Global Investor Sentiment Factor»
Supervisor: Vladimir Sokolov, PhD University of Notre Dame

3) Egor Krivosheya

Topic: «Political Sentiments and Cross-Listings»
Supervisor: Marie-Ann Betschinger, PhD Muenster School of Business Administration and Economics

4) Maksim Marakulin

Topic: «An Economic Model of Propaganda»
Supervisor: Maxim Nikitin, PhD University of Pittsburgh / Professor Konstantin Sonin, Candidate of Sciences MSU

5) Ekaterina Seregina

Topic: «Economic Models of Religion»
Supervisor: Alexis Belyanin, PhD University of Manchester

6) Anastasia Tikhonova

Topic: «Liquidity Factors and Portfolio Optimization in the Russian Stock Market»
Supervisor: Professor Alexei Boulatov, PhD University of California, Berkeley

7) Anna Tikhonova

Topic: «Aggregation of Diverse Approaches to Improve Predictive Power of Bankruptcy Models for Russian Firms»
Supervisor: Dean Fantazzini PhD University of Pavia / Boris Demeshev, MSc in Economics, HSE

ICEF congratulates students and their supervisors!