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ICEF students stay true to the good tradition of sitting their first winter examination – Accounting – dressed in New Year costumes.

The group of third-year students are back from their exchange in Shanghai University. One special challenge they experienced was that the English-taught courses they were due for in Shanghai constitute the master’s level there, whereas ICEF teaches them as part of bachelor’s degree. Doubting their capability to complete those courses with good results, the guys, however, proved highly competent, grasping new concepts and maintaining discussions just perfectly.

ICEF students have set up a group for traveling around Russia. With experiential travel as its main activity, the group believe that visiting new places is a great way to refresh the head from too much studying and restart creative muscles. The group have been to Tula, Nizhny Novgorod, and Lake Baikal. They plan to expand their route network and welcome new members to join them. Here are some of their impressions and how adventures and emotions can help reset the health of our brain.

Maxim Shibanov is in his first year of ICEF’s Master of Financial Economics programme. Maxim knows how to stay motivated when you are a humanities major working toward an academically demanding economics degree. A top graduate of Saint Petersburg State University, Maxim majors in political science but chose to change his field soon after graduation. He moved to Moscow and started his master’s studies at the International College of Economics and Finance. Maxim says he’s never regretted his choice despite having to study nine hours a day with no days off.

ICEF student team ICE FC finished second in the HSE Football Cup fall season. Here’s Artem Smirnov (Y3), who scored game-winning goal, about his impressions of the game, the things that playing sports can teach us, and how history and literature can help solve economic problems.

On 24-25 November 2023 the International Laboratory of Financial Economics (HSE ICEF LFE) and the Centre for Institutional Studies (HSE CInSt) hosted the 12^th ICEF-CInSt International Moscow Finance Conference.

The International Moscow Finance Conference will open its doors for the twelfth time on 24 and 25 November 2023. We talked with conference organizers Vladimir Sokolov of HSE ICEF International Laboratory of Financial Economics and Maria Semenova of HSE Centre for Institutional Studies and asked about the keynote presentations, speakers, and how this Conference facilitates cooperation and co-authorships.

MSc Financial Economics held its Open Day on the 12^th of November. Its prospective students were able to get first-hand information about the learning process and admission from the programme team, as well as hear from the former graduates about how their diplomas helped them start their careers in business and academia.

Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) stand as supranational institutions for funding long-term economic projects and social initiatives on preferential terms. In her recent presentation before ICEF students, Daria Teterkina, who earned her master’s from HSE ICEF and currently serves as Assistant Manager for Cooperation with International Development Institutions at the Russian Ministry of Finance, has shed more light on where MDBs differ from commercial banks, what terms exist for Russia-MDB cooperation, and what opportunities there are for students to obtain experience of dealing with the MDBs at Finance Ministry.

On October 28, 2023 ICEF held the Fifth Conference on Applied Economics at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.