LaBS at the 14th Joint HSE-NES-Bank of Russia workshop
On March 26, 2025, LaBS researchers participated in the 14th Joint HSE-NES-Bank of Russia workshop on economic studies.
Managerial ability and bank liquidity creation: a new paper by Sedki Zaiane
A new article "The nonlinear relationship between managerial ability and bank liquidity creation in the MENA region: Does institutional quality matter?" by Sedki Zaiane, postdoc at the LaBS, was published in the Journal of Economic Studies.

Maria Semenova participated in the EUSPb scientific seminar
On January 30, 2025, Maria Semenova (LaBS Head and Associate Professor at the School of Finance) participated in the regular economics seminar at the European University at Saint-Petersburg.
Сorporate lending dynamics in Russian regions under the pandemic pressure: a new article by Polina Popova
A new article "COVID-19, corporate non-performing loans, and corporate lending dynamics: Evidence from Russian regions" by Polina Popova, research assistant at the LaBS, was published in the recent issue of Applied Econometrics.

Maria Semenova participated in MENA-Asian FEBS Conference
On November 21, 2024, Maria Semenova(LaBS Head and Associate Professor at the School of Finance) participated in MENA-Asian Conference of the Financial Engineering and Banking Society.
We are hiring! A Postdoc position at the LaBS
We are happy to announce that we are hiring within the framework of the HSE International recruitment postdoc programme. Application deadline is January 31st, 2025.
CEO characteristics as determinants of the direction of the nonlinear relationship between CEO stock options and firm strategic risk-taking
The paper "The nonlinear relationship between CEO stock options and strategic risk taking: the moderating role of CEO characteristics" by Sedki Zaiane, Postdoc at the LaBS, was published in Corporate Governance.

Banking in emerging markets was at focus of the LaBS international workshop
On November 1st LaBS held the 13th International Banking Workshop "Banking in Emerging Markets: Challenges and Opportunities".

LaBS in Nizhny Novgorod
On October 3d Maria Semenova and Polina Popova participated in the XI International Conference Modern Econometric Tools and Applications – META2024.

Maria Semenova and Madina Karamysheva participated in iCEBA 2024
At the 4th International Conference on Econometrics and Business Analytics Maria Semenova (LaBS Head and Associate Professor at the School of Finance) presented her paper "Bank Runs and Media Freedom: What You Don’t Know Won’t Hurt You?" (co-authored with Vladimir Sokolov and Alexander Benov) . Madina Karamysheva (Research Fellow at the LaBS and Assistant Professor at the Schoool of Finance) presented her paper "Policymaker Meetings as Heteroscedasticity Shifters: Identification and Simultaneous Inference in Unstable SVARs" (co-authored with Bulat Gafarov, Andrey Polbin and Anton Skrobotov).
