Elena Kotyrlo

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023 to Claudia Goldin (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA), ‘for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes.’ According to the Nobel committee, Professor Goldin has uncovered key factors that determine gender differences in the labour market.

Our research and study group took an active part in X International Conference on Modern Econometric Tools and Applications. The conference was held from 4th to 7th of October at Nizhny Novgorod campus of HSE University.

Wenrui Zhang, from China, is a recent graduate of theMaster’s in Economics and Economic Policy at the HSE UniversityFaculty of Economic Sciences. Having successfully defended his master’s thesis on the impact of COVID-19 on the incomes of vulnerable groups, Wenrui has set his sights on publishing his research and enrolling in adoctoral programme at the university. The HSE News Service interviewed Wenrui about his achievements so far and his goals for the future, and also spoke to Prof.Elena Kotyrlo, his academic supervisor.

Of the 18 students who presented their thesis studies, 3 received the maximum score (10) and 7 excellent scores (8 and 9). This year’s class’s theses deal with topics as diverse as cryptocurrency markets, pension schemes, gender impact on financial transactions, and even climate trade and carbon futures pricing.

ICEF announces a Summer Bridge School in Financial Economics. The programme is designed for students admitted to the ICEF Master programme and for senior bachelor students who would like to prepare themselves for admission in 2023 or in 2024.

On the 5th of March Elena Kotyrlo and Hryhorii Kalachyhin made a presentation at the the research seminar of Indian Statistical Institute (ISI).

Presentation topic: "The effects of India’s BITs termination on FDI inflows" 

Nargiz Mammadova, first-year student of the Master's program Economics: Research Program on her way to the Economics: Research Program, her first semester experience, and her takeaways from the HSE University studies

Members of our research group actively participated in the VII-th International Conference “Modern Econometrics Tools and Applications” (META2020)

Speaker - Ekaterina Borisova (International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development HSE).