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Economic freedom and firm performance: evidence from Russian companies
On February 23, 2018 in The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (US) associate professor of Economics and Finance Department, research fellow of IDLab Anna Bykova at research workshop presented the results of joint research with prof. Dennis Coates entitled “Economic freedom and firm performance: evidence from Russian companies”.
Research Workshop on eSports
On Friday, February 16, a research workshop on sports economics was held by the members of the IDLab.
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Research Workshop on Digitalization
IDLab members continue to explore the topic of digitalization.
On Monday, February 12, Anna Popova, young researcher at IDLab, made a review of papers on this topic.
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Research Workshop on Sports Economics
On Friday, February 2, the workshop on sports economics was held by Elena Shakina, who discussed an paper on the economics of football. The title of the paper is “Fan Preferences: Uncertainty vs. Brand”.
Research Workshop on Digitalization
IDLab continues to inestigate a new research line - the phenomenon of digitalization.
How Corporate Universities Affect Company Financial Results
On January 22, the results of a study by Peter Parshakov and Elena Shakina on the topic "With or Without CU: A Comparative Study of Efficiency of European and Russian Corporate Universities" were presented
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Research Workshop on Digitalization
On January 19th, IDLab hosted a workshop on study about digitalization. The speaker was Sofia Paklina who is the young researcher of the Lab.
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Sports economics workshop
On January 19 the sports economics research workshop was held. The speaker was Gregory Teplykh, young researcher at teh IDLAb. At the workshop, he presented a paper exploring the determinants of the success of Russian football clubs.
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Last Sports Economics Workshop of 2017.
December 27 was a traditional workshop on the sports economics.
The speaker was Julia Naydenova with a report on research in e-sports.