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"Be Interested in What You Explore, And The Quality Will Look After Itself"

Valentin Stepanov, who is in his first year of master’s studies at ICEF, got his graduate paper The impact of innovation news coverage on illiquid stocks: the case of the US market accepted by the European Journal of Innovation Management. Guiding Valentin’s research was Professor Elena Fedorova of HSE University. Here’s what Valentin thinks makes innovation a permanent source of inspiration, what paper submission process involves, and what makes preparing a paper a useful experience for studies and career progress.

January 12

HSE University Hosted ICEF-CInSt 11th International Moscow Finance Conference

14 October 2022, ICEF Laboratory of Financial Economics (LFE) and Centre for Institutional Studies (CInSt) held the 11^th International Moscow Finance Conference. The event featured six presentations by researchers based in China, Australia and USA. Acting as discussants were professors of HSE and schools in Romania.

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October 18, 2022

A Biased Evaluation of Employees’ Performance Can Be Useful for Employers

In assessing an employee’s performance, employers often listen to his immediate supervisor or colleagues, and these opinions can be highly subjective. Sergey Stepanov, an economist from HSE University, has shown that biased evaluations can actually benefit employers. An article substantiating this finding was published in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

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December 08, 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

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

Expert view: ICEF Associate Professor Udara Peiris gave an interview to Mustreader

How to understand the economy, post-COVID growth, AI vs. humans

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June 29, 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

Online Brown Bag Seminar with Roman Zakharenko

Optimal pricing for free-floating shared vehicles

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May 13, 2020

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