RSSIA 2010

Call for papers 

Russian Summer School on Institutional Analysis 2010

"New Institutional Economics: Research Methods and Tools"

Konobeevo, Moscow
July, 2—6,2010

Application is closed

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The Laboratory for Institutional Analysis of Economic Reforms (LIA), State University — Higher School of Economics announces the call for papers for Russian Summer School on Institutional Economics 2010. The Summer School is aimed at creating and supporting the academic network of young researchers from all regions of Russia as well as from CIS and other countries, who work in the field of New Institutional Economics. The schedule of Summer School includes lectures, seminars and plenty of possibilities for discussion and communication. This year we will focus attention on application of various research tools available to Institutional Economists.

Participation:

Among those who are encouraged to participate are researchers, teaching staff, PhD and Master students. Priority in the selection will be given to research projects that are related to the following fields:

• Economic analysis of bureaucracy
• Economics of education
• Economics of banking and financial markets
• Industrial organization and regulation

The application of game theory and contract theory tools is welcome.

The working language of the Summer School is English.

The RSSIA 2009 participants will have the opportunity:

• to attend the lectures of distinguished experts in various spheres of institutional economics and adjoining disciplines: Yaroslav Kuzminov (SU-HSE), Koen Schoors (Universiteit Gent), Russell W. Pittman (Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice), Hannes Mueller (Barcelona Graduate School of Economics), Andrei Bremzen (New Economic School, Moscow), Maria Yudkevich (SU-HSE), Georgy Artemov (University of Melbourne);
• to present and discuss their current research projects during seminars;
• to exchange the research experience with other RSSIA participants and experts.

A certain number of grants are available to cover participants’ accommodation and meals costs and the registration fee.

How to apply: 

Applications should be submitted via application form at the web-site. An application includes:

• Registration form (should be filled in at the web-site);
• Motivation letter (no longer than 300 words);
• Current research project description (no longer than 1200 words + references) with a short abstract (no longer than 200 words).

Current research project description should be in English (MS Word, Times New Roman, size 12, space 1,5, standard margins) and must include the following parts (clearly separated in the text):

• Research problem;
• Brief literature overview;
• The aim of the project;
• Main hypotheses;
• Methodology;
• Results;
• References.

 Important dates:

RSSIA Coordinator:

Anna Balsevich
E-mail: rssia.lia@gmail.com
Tel: +7 905 710 1497