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🎓Excited to share — @ProfSultanEcon will present at the Princeton Political Economy Workshop. His talk, “Courts of Tomorrow: Evidence from a Nationwide Introduction of Generative AI,” explores how AI tools and training affect judicial performance. More: bit.ly/4sBXFMn

🌍 #NES Professor Natalya Volchkova took part in the 28th Plenary Session of the United Nations Committee for Development Policy (CDP) (New York, Feb 23–27, 2026), where she delivered remarks on trade risks for Least Developed Countries. #econtwitter

Beneath the ban of abortion: Evidence from the USSR Sultan Mehmood @mrsultan713 @NES_Moscow, Yaroslav Prokhorskoy @essec, Hosny Zoabi @NES_Moscow ow.ly/39B650XX9qv

🎓 Congrats! @ProfSultanEcon has been promoted to Tenured Associate Professor at NES, effective January 1, 2026. Looking forward to his further contributions to the School and the academic community! #econtwitter More: bit.ly/4ql7DBd

🎉 Great news! NES Prof. Rustam Ibragimov has joined the Editorial Board of Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (Springer Nature, Nature Portfolio) #econtwitter More: bit.ly/49bgRII

#NES Professors Olga Kuzmina, Aleksey Kolokolov, and Timur Sobolev took part in the 14th International Moscow Finance Conference (Nov 28, 2025) at ICEF, HSE University #econtwitter More: bit.ly/44wm7oU

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20891 Who Gets Hired? The Strength of Weak Ties and the Signaling of Strong Ties Shahir Safi @NES_Moscow, Yves Zenou @yveszenou1 @MonashUni ow.ly/Oxfu50XCEQm #CEPR_LE #EconTwitter

On November 14–15, 2025, #NES hosted the 56th Research Conference. Over the course of two days, NES professors, PhD students and invited researchers presented the results of their current studies: bit.ly/3M7TPe4

Economic research subjects often cause confusion: what's the benefit of studying now the events of a distant past? Konstantin Egorov, a professor of the University of Antwerp and a NES alumnus, explains what researchers are really looking for: bit.ly/3MdGYa0 #EconTwitter

Meet Alexey Kolokolov, Assistant Professor of Finance. His research explores econometrics and financial markets, with key contributions in high-frequency data analysis, forecasting, and modeling extreme market events #econtwitter

Let us introduce Assistant Professor of Economics Nadezhda Pozdnyakova. Her research interests focus on macroeconomics, international economics, and behavioral macroeconomics #econtwitter

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Mokyr “for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress” and the other half jointly to Aghion and Howitt “for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction.” #NobelPrize

🌍 NES Professor Natalya Volchkova took part in the @UNCTAD webinar “World Investment Report 2025: EAEU in the Spotlight”. She discussed FDI trends and shared policy ideas to boost the EAEU’s investment appeal — from digital integration to institutional modernization #EconTwitter

🎓 Exciting news: NES alumna Anastasiia Arbuzova (BAE'2019) joins the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) as a postdoctoral fellow! Her research explores autocracies, development economics, and gender issues. #econtwitter

In medieval Europe, relics of saints were not only sacred — they powered local economies. Their theft was widespread and often seen as more honorable than buying. Read the column on GURU by Oleg Voskoboynikov: bit.ly/4mew40u #econtwitter

The 32nd NES Commencement Ceremony has taken place! We are proud of all NES Class of 2025 graduates and wish them every success on their journey ahead. Congratulations! 🎓 #NESCommencement2025

Right after the conference, the Summer School on Socioeconomic Opportunity & Inequality started in Dilijan – organized by YES & UChicago. NES professors taking part (left to right): Hosny Zoabi, Ruben Enikolopov, Kate Koppi & Douglas Campbell (@TradeandMoney)

From June 30 to July 2, the 15th Anniversary Conference of the Armenian Economic Association took place in Yerevan. Professors, from left to right: Ruben Enikolopov @renikolopov(NES&Pompeu Fabra), Ariel Kalil @ariel_kalil (UChicago), Hosny Zoabi(NES), and Steven Durlauf(UChicago)

Pictured: Egor Starkov (MAE’2013), Evgenii Safonov (MAE’2015), Tatiana Mayskaya (MAE’2012), Mikhail Drugov (MAE’2001), Anton Kolotilin (MAE’2007), Kirill Evdokimov (MAE’2012), Denis Shishkin (MAE’2014), Kiryl Khalmetski.

#NES Professors and Alumni Reunite at SAET 2025 — the XXIV Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory #econtwitter