Research & Expertise
This Time is Different: Economic Policy Challenges in the time of COVID-19
A virtual panel discussion was held at ICEF on June 3rd 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.
'The aftermath of COVID-19: The Macroeconomy, Banks and NPLs'
ICEF Associate Professor of Finance Udara Peiris will talk about the upcoming financial problems on the Brown Bag Seminar on April 15th
Business forecast: how to succeed in the post-crisis economy
Such a sudden and severe crisis as we have now can not only reset the economic activity to zero, but also offer many opportunities in the future. It is important to predict the trends, but this is not always easy. The World is changing very fast and it means not only losses, but also great opportunities for those who can fulfill their ideas in time and respond to consumer needs. An expert and a businessman talk about their positive experience from the sanctions, the regeneration of hippy culture, and how private investments can save the Russian economy.
Economic Summit Delay: What Does Russia Lose?
ICEF Associate Professor Udara Peiris gives comments to Gazeta.ru
We Forecast a Severe Global Recession
ICEF held a round table on Global Economy Challenges in 2020. Mr Thanassis Gontikas, Senior Vice-President of Edmond de Rothschild Bank (EdR) in Switzerland, was invited as a speaker.
An article by ICEF Assistant Professor Sofya Budanova on the manipulation of financial reports will be published in Management Science
Corporate financial statements can be quite subjective documents, because accounting rules are flexible and accountants often may use their discretion on how to report certain transactions. An article by ICEF Assistant Professor Sofya Budanova deals with this phenomenon.
"We are intellectually curious and want to have colleagues we can learn from"
ASSA (Allied Social Science Associations), an annual event organized by the American Economic Association (AEA), was held in San Diego in early January 2020. For three days, reports, workshops, panel discussions are held, but for what university representatives and young scientists from all over the world really come here, this is an ASSA meeting – a job market for the academic community. We spoke with Udara Peiris, an associate professor at ICEF, who was one of the interviewers this year and met a few candidates at the ASSA. He told us which universities are active on the job market, how a scientist can get a job at ICEF, how the Moscow university can attract an international professor, and what reflects the prestige of the candidate on the academic labor market.
“ICEF’s best-performing students do show the level of skill expected of the students of the world’s top universities”
Is it difficult to enroll in a university abroad? Where do Russian students go wrong when they start an overseas training programme? Will artificial intelligence eventually replace humans in the domain of Finance? We talked to Dr. Georgy Chabakauri of The London School of Economics and ICEF International Academic Committee to get answers to these and many other questions.
'We Are Well in Line with the data science trends in Finance'
On October 25-26, the International College of Economics and Finance (ICEF) and the Laboratory of Financial Economics (LFE) hosted the Eighth International Moscow Finance Conference at HSE University. This year’s programme included researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles; University of California, Berkeley; University of Warwick; University of Lausanne; Imperial College and the London School of Economics.
The Second ICEF Conference in Applied Economics
On September 14, 2019, ICEF held the Second Conference in Applied Economics at the Higher School of Economics.