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A festival celebrating the 30th anniversary of the HSE Faculty of Economic Sciences will take place in the Pokrovka building on May 27

Nikita Zubkov earned his bachelor’s in Management from Plekhanov University in 2013 and his master’s in Corporate Finance from the HSE School of Finance in 2015. In 2014, started as an analyst in the Corporate Finance department of the A-Ventures company (a subsidiary of Renova, that manages metalworking plants dealing with precious and base metals and a uranium enrichment plant). In 2016, hired on as senior economist in the Treasury and Finance Department of GV Gold, a gold mining company. Since 2018, has worked as the chief specialist in financial markets at SUEK, Russia’s largest coal company. In the RAEX-Europe agency’s ESG rating, SUEK ranked 11th among 110 Russian companies in 2021.Since 2021, has worked at AIM Holding, the corporate centre of SUEK, EuroChem, SGK and NTK. Has worked as the head of conversion operations since early 2022.

The paper 'Round-Robin Tournaments with Limited Resources' studies the equilibrium strategies of participants in a round-robin tournament who have a limited margin of effort.

Rapidly changing approaches to the pursuit of scientific knowledge are making research more interdisciplinary in nature. Science and researchers are now more open to society, while student academic mobility among universities is encouraged. Maria Yudkevich, HSE Vice Rector, talks about these issues, explaining how HSE University promotes and expands its research activities and supports early-career researchers.

After analysing the price fluctuations of almost 2,000 cryptocurrencies over seven years, Victoria Dobrynskaya, Associate Professor at the HSE University Faculty of Economic Sciences, found that there are no fundamental differences between their behaviour and that of conventional assets. Cryptocurrency follows the same principles, although its prices change much faster: processes that usually take years on traditional markets take only a month or so on the cryptocurrency market. An article on this research was reprinted by SSRN.

Elizaveta Vityuk is a graduate of the HSE Faculty of Economic Sciences, and a partner in McKinsey&Company, the largest global management consulting company. Elizabeth spoke to HSE news service about her career path, her work as a consultant and about the tasks that she has to solve.

HSE University alumna Dr. Elena Podkolzina recently became an academic supervisor of the newly established master's programme in Economics and Economic Policy. Having been part of HSE University for nearly 25 years now, Dr. Podkolzina recalls her student years and shares her experience as deputy director of the Center for Institutional Studies.

Economists from HSE University have demonstrated that collecting as much information as possible about borrowers does not always decrease banks’ risks. Sometimes, more is not better: on the contrary, increasing the volume of data might increase the risks of loan defaults to a certain extent. The study was published in the WP BRP HSE University, Series: Financial Economics series of working papers.