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Resilience of Russian companies and their antifragility were discussed at the round table organized by the School of Finance of the Faculty of Economic Sciences of HSE University. The participants spoke about the opportunities for raising capital in the domestic market, companies’ resilience amid a crisis and the vision of companies’ top managers for the current situation.

The theme of the event carried out by the Exchange and Higher School of Economics on 26 April was Development of the National Carbon Market: Standards, Practices and Companies’ Performance. Irina Ivashkovskaya, head of the School of Finance of HSE University, and Dmitry Chernyshev, vice president of the Saint Petersburg International Mercantile Exchange, presided as chairpersons of the roundtable discussions.

The 1st issue of 2024 includes papers on the impact of ESG ratings on ETFs, market reaction on environmental disasters, dividend payment theories on Russian market, etc.

Alexander V. Myshenkov, lecturer of the School of Finance, Senior Audit Manager of  «Technologies of Trust - Audit», was awarded the SRO AAS’s Medal «For Merits in the Field of Audit».

The 4th issue of 2023 includes papers on the impact of mergers and acquisitions on R&D, corporate resilience in the era of “cancel culture,” the consequences of Western sanctions for Russian airlines, etc.

Maria Semyonova, associate professor at the School of Finance, was nominated for the award, given to alumni for her outstanding academic career at HSE and strengthening the university’s international academic reputation as a leading research center in the field of finance

On the 8^th and 9^th of December, the School of Finance successfully hosted the international seminar “ESG Transformation: Challenges in Emerging Markets”

A conversation on the perspectives of educational and research collaboration took place at Pokrovka.

Corporate governance is changing its paradigm to the new financial and economic reality which is oriented towards sustainable development. The central pillars of corporate governance moved towards ESG which imposed to consider new factors such as Ethical AI and managing the people's data, gender diversity etc. that were captured into the concept introduced by President of the Swiss Institute of Directors, called “Diversity Optima”: these were among the main discussed topics at the 20TH EIASM WORKSHOP ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE.

The School of Finance with the Financial Innovation and Risk Management Center took an active part in the V Russian Economic Congress (REC2023), which was held from September 11 to 15, 2023 in Yekaterinburg.