On Thursday, October 19 at 4.40 pm, room 3211 (Shabolovka str. 26) ICEF and LFE held the Research Seminar in Finance. Speaker: Giovanni Cespa (Cass Business School) Theme: "Exchange Competition, Entry, and Welfare" joint with X. Vives
Olga Balakina graduated from the ICEF master’s programme in 2011, and in May she successfully defended her PhD thesis in finance at Bocconi University, Italy. This autumn Olga continues her academic career at one of Northern Europe’s oldest universities, Lund University, Sweden. Olga spoke to the HSE news service about her memories, chocolate, and non-stop work.
On Thursday, October 5 at 4.40 pm, room 3211 (Shabolovka str. 26) ICEF held the Research Seminar. Speaker: Murat Kirdar (Bogazici University) Theme: "Exchange Rate Shocks and Immigrants’ Saving Behavior" joint with Alpaslan Aslan, Slobodan Djajic and Alexandra Vinogradova
On Tuesday, September 26 at 4.40 pm, room 3402 (Shabolovka str. 26) ICEF held the Research Seminar. Speaker: Michael Mcmahon (University of Oxford) Theme: "The Long-Run Information Effect of Central Bank Text" joint with Stephen Hansen, Michael McMahon and Matthew Tong
On Thursday, September 21 at 4.40 pm, room 3211 (Shabolovka str. 26) ICEF and LFE held the Research Seminar. Speaker: Hongda Zhong (LSE) Theme: "A Theory of Multi-Period Debt Structure" joint with Chong Huang and Martin Oehmke
On September 15, a gala event was held for the 20th anniversary of the International College of Economics and Finance (ICEF) at Pushkin Literary Museum in Moscow. In attendance were the heads of Higher School of Economics (HSE), the University of London (UoL) and London School of Economics (LSE), as well as representatives of academia and the business community, ICEF faculty and, of course, its alumni.
What is higher education for? Is it a public or private good? Who should pay? Who should decide what is taught and how? What priority should it have over other levels of education? What should be the balance of local, regional, national and international relevance? How should it react to technology-driven changes to the nature of the workforce? How should it adapt to the need for lifelong learning? This lecture examines these and other issues based on the experience of the UK.
On Thursday, September 14 at 4.40 pm, room 3211 (Shabolovka str. 26) ICEF held the Research Seminar. Speaker: David Ronayne (University of Oxford) Theme: "The Balance of Power in Markets with Competitive and Direct Sales Channels" joint with Greg Taylor
On Thursday, Septemeber 7 at 4.40 pm, room 3211 (Shabolovka str. 26) ICEF and LFE held the Research Seminar in Finance. Speaker: Francisco Gomes (LBS) Theme: "The Cross-Section of Household Preferences" joint with Laurent Calvet, John Campbell and Paolo Sodini
