The traditional autumn NES Research Conference took place on November 18-19. Konstantin Sonin, professor of the University of Chicago and the Higher School of Economics, and NES alumni (MAE'1998), became the distinguished speaker of the event, presenting a research dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the second Russian revolution - the events of the late 1980s - early 1990s, which became an economic and political catastrophe that destroyed the Russian state and changed the Russian society.
The talks by NES professors Stanislav Anatolyev, Mikhail Drugov, Valery Charnovoki, Konstantin Egorov, Ruben Enikolopov, Sergei Kovbasyuk, Andrey Markevich, Marta Troya Martinez, Sultan Mehmood, Pavle Radicevic, Marat Salikhov, Gerhard Toews, Oleg Shibanov, Evgeny Yakovlev and Hosny Zoabi covered a range of topics including labor economics, gender economics, economic history, microeconomic theory, macroeconomics, finance, econometrics and others. HSE professor Udara Peiris presented his joint work on the relationship between the level of corporate debt and monetary policy.
The conference was held in a blended format: several dozen participants gathered at the NES campus while some speakers and attendees joined online. The program of the event with the titles of presented research is available here.
