From April 7 to 9, the 50th Research Conference was held on the campus of the Russian School of Economics. This year, traditionally, the event was held in a mixed format. Many students participated online, quite a lot of students gathered on the NES campus for face-to-face participation.
In the first two days of the conference, students of the Master of Economics (MAE) program presented their work. The program of presentations was divided into 9 sessions: Political Economy, Education; Macroeconomics; Theory and Applied Theory; Trade and Development; Volatility, Markets; Macro: sanctions and crises; Trade, Applied Theory; Digital Econ, Applications; Family and Education Economics.
The range of topics covered was very wide: from “Derivation of investor sentiment index from news texts and study of its relationship with the Tesla stock price” to “The effect of counter-sanctions on the productivity of firms that are affected by this policy, the volume of products they export and the allocation of exporting firms on the local market”.
The sessions were moderated by professors of the NES: Michele Valseki, Konstantin Egorov, Sergei Izmalkov, Sergey Kovbasyuk, Andrey Markevich, Pavle Radichevich, Gerhard Tevs, Valery Chernooky, Evgeny Yakovlev.
On the final day of the conference, students of the Master of Arts in Finance (MAF) program presented their works. Among the topics of the reports, we can highlight such contemporary topics as “Social media influence on stock market” and “The impact of Covid-19 and vaccination dynamics against this virus on Chinese outbound FDI, taking into account industry specifics”.
The sessions were moderated by NES professors: Vyacheslav Gorovoy, Alexey Goryaev, Olga Kuzmina, Oleg Shibanov, Karsten Sprenger, Dmitry Alpin, Peter Dorozhkin, Ilya Munerman, Elena Senatorova, Sergey Syntulsky.
The full list of conference participants and submitted papers of the Master of Economics (MAE) program can be found here, and the Master of Arts in Finance (MAF) program can be found here.
