ICEF (College) - Research

Research

The ICEF Research Initiative was launched in 2003 by the decision of the International Academic Committee of ICEF and with financial assistance of the National Training Foundation (NTF). The aim of this initiative is to foster research activities at ICEF, and build its research potential and reputation as a modern research department. Research by ICEF teachers and students plays a major role in raising the qualifications of the faculty, while the availability of advances in modern economic science in the world for the students helps them to develop their skills for independent analytical work.

The programme activities are being monitored and supervised by the ICEF Academic Committee chaired by the Professor Richard Jackman of LSE. Research activities at ICEF are coordinated by Alexis Belianin (PhD, University of Manchester, 2000). The committee members give advice and suggestions on various projects and facilitate contacts between ICEF researchers and LSE academics. Research activities at ICEF received a new impetus with the recruitment of full-time academics from the international labour market. The first appointed academic, Dr. Maxim Nikitin, got his PhD at the University of Pittsburgh (1999), and had worked at the University of Alberta before joining ICEF in 2005. In 2006 - 2008, PhD Economics Vladimir Sokolov, Carsten Sprenger, Sergey Gelman, Stanimir Morfov, Anna Yurko, Igor Mouraviev, and Roman Zakharenko joined the ICEF academic staff. Introduction of such positions substantially enhances the level and scope of research activities at ICEF, which nowadays extends from monetary economics and applied international trade to law and economics, political economy and experimental economics.