The First International Moscow Finance Conference
November 18-19, 2011 the Higher School of Economics (HSE) hosted the First International Moscow Finance Conference, organized by the International Laboratory in Financial Economics (LFE) and ICEF.
The Conference was opened by the ICEF Director Sergey Yakovlev, the Research Coordinator of the Laboratory Christian Julliard (LSE) and the Head of the Laboratory Carsten Sprenger (ICEF).
The Conference consisted of six sessions, the participants of which were the experts in financial economics from the HSE, NES and foreign universities: LSE (Mikhail Chernov), University of North Carolina (Diego Garcia), Oxford University (Dimitrios Tsomokos), University of Belgrade (Branko Urosevic) and others.
Two public lectures of the world's leading economists, professor Arnoud Boot (University of Amsterdam) and professor Juliy Sannikov (Princeton University), were held within the framework of the Conference.
In addition to the participants of the Conference, the sessions were attended by researchers, teachers and students from Russian and foreign universities, representatives of banks and the State Duma of the Russian Federation, united by an interest in financial economics.
November 18th, in the evening the participants of the conference were invited to attend a reception on the occasion of the opening of the First International Moscow Finance Conference, where they had the opportunity to communicate with each other in a less formal atmosphere, exchange opinions and ideas and discuss future prospects of the Conference.