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In summer 2018 the HSE International Summer University in cooperation with the HSE Faculty of Economic Sciences offers a new course - Economic History of Russia: Features of Economic Development by Associate Professor Alexey Rakov

HSE and Coursera open a new course for students interested in economics and finance who did not have comprehensive instruction in Mathematics during their undergraduate studies.

Video presentation of Math solutions in English

In its fifth year already, the HSE Summer University was officially opened on June 20th by Vice Rector, Ivan Prostakov. Over the next 8 weeks, HSE will provide almost 200 students, PhD candidates, postdocs and professionals from all around the world with the opportunity to enhance their knowledge in a wide range of fields. Many of the courses, all of which are taught in English, focus on areas such as politics, history, economics, and Russian and Eurasian cultures.

The Higher School of Economics ranked 38^th in the QS ranking of young universities, up from 48^th last year.

We are launching a Cross-regional Studies project and welcoming bright students to join it. Interviews will be held on the 29th of June.

Araceli Gutierrez Ardaya, Second year student at the Economics bachelor programme, HSE Preparatory year alumna, Faculty of Economic Sciences, HSE University, Moscow arrived from Bolivia to study Russian because her undergraduate program is actually taught in Russian! Russian, Economics, study, volunteering, travel, youth forum - watch her talk about her busy life in Moscow

Bertha Tamakloe arrived to Moscow from Ghana and is now finishing her first year at the master programme Strategic Corporate Finance. She speaks on why she likes the program and why studying at HSE may be enjoable to international students

Ethan Bueno de Mesquita studied deterrence in a world where attacks cannot be perfectly attributed to attackers. In his model, each of n attackers may attack the defender. The defender observes an imperfect signal that probabilistically attributes the attack. The defender may retaliate against one or more attackers, and wants to retaliate against the guilty attacker only. He uncover an endogenous strategic complementarity among the attackers: if one attacker becomes more aggressive, that attacker becomes more “suspect” and the other attackers become less suspect, which leads the other attackers to become more aggressive as well. 

Chris Berry explained the quantitative test of leader effects (RIFLE), that allows researchers to test a null hypothesis of no leader effect and also estimate the proportion of variation in an outcome variable attributable to leaders vs. other factors. To demonstrate the substantive value of RIFLE, he implemented it for world leaders, U.S. governors, and U.S. mayors and for several outcomes. This results improve understanding of where, when, and why leaders matter.