RSSIA 2009

Russian Summer School on Institutional Analysis
Institutions, Education and Growth

July, 2—6,2009

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Call for papers deadline: April, 1st, 2009

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 2009. The Summer School is aimed to create and support the academic network of young researchers from all regions of Russia as well as from CIS and other countries, those whose research interests include economics and sociology of education and economic systems’ institutional structure and development. The most outstanding papers will be considered for publication in the journals published by HSE and in LIA preprint series.

Participation

Among those who are encouraged to participate are researchers, teaching staff, PhD and Master students, whose research projects are related to economic and sociological analysis of institutions and their influence on economic growth. The papers on economics and sociology of higher education will have a priority. The working language of the Summer School is Russian but as there will be some lectures in English, understanding English is highly desirable. The RSSIA 2009 participants obtain the opportunity:

to attend the lectures of distinguished experts in the spheres of institutional economics as well as economics and sociology of education: at the moment we have already invited Y.Kuzminov (SU-HSE), M. Yudkevich (SU-HSE), J. Nye (George Mason University), K. Sonin (NES), A. Bremzen (NES, CEFIR), A. Suvorov (NES, CEFIR), I. Khovanskaya (SU-HSE);
to present and discuss their current research projects during workshops;
to exchange the research experience with other RSSIA participants and experts;
to participate round tables, role plays and other types of academic activities.

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 electronically via application form. An application includes:

Registration form;
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).

Motivation letter should be in Russian and should clearly demonstrate what, you think, RSSIA participation will give you and why you wish to participate. Current research project description should be in Russian (MS Word, Times New Roman, size 12, space 1,5, standard margins) and must include the following:

State of the research problem;
Brief literature overview;
The aim of the project;
Main hypotheses to be tested;
Methodology;
(Expected) results;
References.

Important dates:

Application deadline	April, 1st, 2009
Participants' notification	April, 20, 2009
Participants' confirmation of participation	May, 20, 2009
Arrival to RSSIA	July, 1, 2009
Departure from RSSIA	July, 7, 2009

RSSIA Coordinator:

Anna Balsevich
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel: +7 905 710 1497

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