17 May 2013 - Video of the lecture by Vladimir Drebentsov (Chief Economist for Russia and CIS, British Petroleum) that took place at EUSP on 19 April is now available in the Video Archive. The lecture was on the Strategy of BP in Russia amid Evolving World Gas Markets.

14 May 2013 - Professor Gur Huberman from Columbia Business School, New York, gave a talk at EUSP on regulatory forbearance in the US financial crisis. The presentation is available here. The talk was part of the Barclays-JTI Lectures in Applied Finance.

13 May 2013 - Olga Bychkova, professor of economics (chair funded by JTI), gave a public lecture  on "Clever" regulation and assessment of regulatory impact at the Laboratory of social and economic research in Tomsk State University.

28 April 2013 - The video of the last, extremely interesting lecture by Kirill Ilinski (Fusion Asset Management, London) has been made available in the Archive. Follow the most recent updates and the news from the lecture course in the blog "From a Supermodel to a Supermodel" (in Russian).

23 April 2013 - Alyona Zhulyaeva, a second year student in the Department of Economics, was awarded a semi-finalist diploma at the VII All-Russia Championship in Business-Case Solutions Changellenge >> Cup Russia 2013. Only 128 contenders made it to the semi-final, out of 4100 competitors at the initial stage of the Championship. This is a great result -  congratulations!

20 April 2013 - Maxim Bouev, the head of the Department of Economics, published article "A Food Crisis, Revolutions and Speculations" in the April issue of CBonds Review , an analytical monthly (in Russian).

20 April 2013 - From 22 March to 19 April Maxim Bouev, the head of the Department of Economics, was part of the Civil G20 working group on employment. The Group proposed a set of recommendations on job creation and labour market health to the G20 leaders, whose meeting is due to take place in St.Petersburg at the beginning of September.

1 March 2013 - Hideki Hayashi of the European Union Studies Institute (Tokyo, Japan) has given a lecture "The Lessons of the Euro Crisis: New Asian Financial Order?
(the Japan’s point of View)". The lecture was based on his recent article.

18 February 2013 - Kirill Ilinski (Fusion Asset Management, London) has started a new min-series of 4 lectures on various aspects of financial modelling. Follow the most recent updates and the news in the blog "From a Supermodel to a Supermodel" (in Russian).

18 February 2013 - At the EUSP Golden Hall Erik Berglöf (Chief Economist, EBRD) has presented to EUSP students and economics students from other universities in St.Petersburg the recent report "Diversifying Russia" produced by the Office of the Chief Economist, EBRD. The announcement of the lecture is available here. The video of the presentation will also be made available soon.

7 February 2013 - a new article entitled "A DSGE Model with a Banking Sector and Endogenous Defaults of Firms" (in Russian) by Sergey Ivashchenko has come out in the EUSP Department of Economics working paper series.

29 January 2013 - The Department of Economics has launched Internet blog "From a Supermodel to a Supermodel" (in Russian) about various aspects of financial modelling, covered in teh series of lectures by Kirill Ilinski (Fusion Asset Management, London). This is done to provide the students attending the lectures with an additional opportunity for raising questions to the lecturer, obtaining the answers, discussing vague moments, etc.

24 January 2013 - Richard D. Lewis (Richard Lewis Communications PLC, UK), gave a 3 hour lecture "Cross-Cultural Competence is the Basis for Successful International Business". Details and photos of the event are here.

14-18 January 2013 - Mikhail Anufriev, a graduate of the EUSP Department of Economics, and currently a senior lecturer at the University of Technology (Sydney, Australia), gave a short course in non-linear economic dynamics. Besides, EUSP has provisionally agreed to invite Mikhail regularly every year with similar short courses which are to be incorporated in the fabric of MA programmes run by the Department of Economics.

17 January 2013 - a new article entitled "The existence of equilibrium paths in an AK-model with endogenous time preferences and borrowing constraints" by Professor Kirill Borissov has come out in the EUSP Department of Economics working paper series.

4 January 2013 - Photographs taken by Polina Deliya, a 1st year student, at the traditional New Year's celebrations organised by the Department on 25 December 2012 have been made available on Polina's page on Flikr.