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Economists from HSE and RUDN University have analysed issues related to corporate digital transformation processes. The introduction of digital solutions into corporate operations reduces the number of patents in the field of green technologies by 4% and creates additional financial difficulties. However, if a company focuses on sustainable development and increases its rating in environmental, social, and governance performance (ESG), the negative effects decrease. Moreover, when the ESG rating is high, digitalisation can even increase the number of patents by 2%. The article was published in Sustainability.

Achieving antifragility of businesses at turbulent times requires financial executives to maintain inclusive growth strategies.

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.

On September 6, 2023, Dmitry Tikhomirov, professor of the School of Finance, made a presentation at the annual online conference of the Financial Directors’ Club: “Regional Business Landscape: Focus on Industrial Investments”.

Ion Frecautan, 3^rd year PhD student with School of Finance participated at the World finance Conference hosted by the University of Adger in Kristiansand, Norway from August 2-4. He had the privilege to the share the results of the paper called “Is Corporate governance important for green bonds in the emerging capital markets?” coauthored with professor Irina Ivashkovskaya.

Sergey Grishunin, Associate Professor of the School of Finance, took part in GrEnFin (Greening Energy Market and Finance) Project Final Conference in Bologna on October 21, 2022.

On June 6th, within the framework of the HSE Best Russian-Language Scientific and Popular Science Papers Competition, the paper “Relationship between Regional Socio-Economic Development and Corporate Ratings of Russian Companies” presented by the team of authors: Irina Ivashkovskaya, Elena Makeeva, Konstantin Popov and Liudmila Ruzhanskaya, became the winner in the nomination “Best Russian-Language Scientific Work”, and was awarded a certificate of honour.

Milica Simonovic, from Belgrade, Serbia, is a doctoral student at the HSE University Faculty of Economic Sciences. She is currently working on her doctoral thesis on corporate governance and intellectual capital disclosure. We interviewed Milica to find out more about her thesis and her experience of the university’s application process for PhD students.