Internal Seminar
The seminars are held weekly, on Tuesdays, 14:00.
The potential list of speakers includes staff members, research assistants and external speakers. The format is flexible: from 30 to 60 minutes, with slides, with a whiteboard, with videoconference. The working language is English, but presentations in Russian are welcome too.
If you want to present, please contact Kirill Afanasev koafanasev@hse.ru
Where: Kantemirovskaya 3A at 5th floor (Center for Market Studies) & online platform Yandex.Telemost.
https://telemost.360.yandex.ru/j/8590273598
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Forthcoming seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title of the Report |
| 02.06.2026 | Mikhail Sokolov (HSE University – St. Petersburg) | Payback Period of an Investment Project and Its Properties |
| Temur Mukhamedov (NES) | Dynamic Auctions with Insider Information and Private–Common Values | |
| 09.06.2026 | Vasily Gusev (HSE University – St. Petersburg) | Potential functions for matching problem |
| 16.05.2026 | Ilia Danilin (European University at St. Petersburg) | Market Structure, Emission Tax, and R&D Incentives: Cournot Duopoly |
| 23.05.2026 | Konstantin Sorokin (HSE University – St. Petersburg) | Community detection using Ricci-Foster flows |
Previous seminars
Seminars 2025-2026
| Date | Speaker | Title of the Report |
| 30.09.2025 | Alexander Nesterov (HSE University – St. Petersburg) | New tasks and plans |
| 07.10.2025 | Dmitriy Tsilevich (HSE University — St. Petersburg) | Optimal Decision-Making Architecture (ru) |
| 11.10.2025 (V OMCHA) |
Vasily Gusev (HSE University — St. Petersburg) | An Axiomatic Characterization of Weighted Congestion Games (ru) |
| Konstantin Sorokin (HSE University — St. Petersburg) | A Topological Approach to the Analysis of Big Data Dynamics (ru) | |
| Yakov Zhukov (HSE University — St. Petersburg) | Characterization of Finite Games: The Method of Potential Functions (ru) | |
| Dmitriy Tsilevich (HSE University — St. Petersburg) | Optimal Decision-Making Architecture (ru) | |
| 21.10.2025 | Ilyas Bayramov (Stony Brook University) | Coalition Formulation and Schelling Games (ru) |
| 28.10.2025 | Aleksei Semyonov (MIPT) | Stability Concepts in the Permutation Problem (ru) |
| 18.11.2025 | Sergey Chistyakov (St. Petersburg State University) | The Principle of Minimum Disproportion (ru) |
| 25.11.2025 | Grigory Siyalov (HSE University — St. Petersburg) | Pure-Strategy Nash Equilibria in Weight-Scaling Congestion Games (ru) |
| 02.12.2025 | Alexander Nesterov (HSE University — St. Petersburg) | Presentation of the Laboratory’s Annual Results and Plans for the Future Talk on Tayfun Sönmez’s book “Minimalist Market Design” (ru) |
| 09.12.2025 | Nikolay Osipov (SPbU) | Von Neumann–Morgenstern Axioms of Rationality and Inequalities in Analysis (ru) |
| 16.12.2025 | Oleg Sviridov (HSE University — St. Petersburg) | Talk on Mehmet Ismail's article "Super-Nash Performance" (ru) |
| 23.12.2025 | Arseniy Samsonov (HSE University — St. Petersburg) | Inclusive Networks, joint with Kemal Kivanç Aköz, Daniil Fomichev and Shahir Safi (ru) |
| 13.01.2025 | Alexander Nesterov (HSE University — St. Petersburg) | Applied problem: construction regulations in Saint Petersburg (ru) |
| 20.01.2025 | Andrei Belyi (HSE University – St. Petersburg) | Interaction of LLM agents. Agent-based auctions (ru) |
| 27.01.2025 (online) | Yi Shi (HSE University) | On the nature of conditional cooperation (en) |
| 03.02.2026 | Sergey Chistyakov (SPbU) | Mathematical Models for Constructing Tax Scales (ru) |
| 10.02.2026 | Ekaterina Chesnokova and Ekaterina Yakovenko (supervisor Konstantin Sorokin) | Topological Methods for the Analysis of Financial Markets (ru) |
| 17.02.2026 14:40 Room 339 (Job market seminar) |
Alexander Alekseev (University of Regensburg) | The Economics of Babysitting a Robot |
| 19.02.2026 (Thursday) 14:40 Room 339 (Job market seminar) |
Javier Sanchez Bachiller (University of Luxembourg) | Emigration prospects and educational choices: Evidence from the Lorraine-Luxembourg corridor |
| 24.02.2026 | Yakov Zhukov (HSE University – Saint Petersburg) | Quasi-perfect Dynamic Principles of Optimality for Sequences of Cooperative Games (ru) |
| 03.03.2026 | Ksenia Rezina and Konstantin Sorokin (HSE University – Saint Petersburg) | Formal concept analysis for studying the dynamics of neural specializations (ru) |
| 10.03.2026 | Grigory Siyalov (HSE University – Saint Petersburg) | Stability in matching with negative externalities (ru) |
| 17.03.2026 | Anna Shchiptsova (HSE University – Saint Petersburg) | Preference discovery in large centralized higher education market with two-tier admission: the role of student beliefs (ru) |
| 24.03.2026 (online) | Tianxiong Yu (University of Luxembourg) | Capacity Pooling and Cost Allocation in M/G/1 Systems with Endogenous Capacity Choice (en) |
| 31.03.2026 | Vladimir Zubchenko (HSE University – Saint Petersburg) | Incentives and Efficiency in Expert Prediction Aggregation (ru) |
| 07.04.2026 | Artemii Lomakin (HSE University – Saint Petersburg) | Detecting Bid Leakage in Procurement Auctions: A Machine Learning Approach with New Electronic Data (ru) |
| 14.04.2026 | Konstantin Sorokin (HSE University – Saint Petersburg) | CW Trees (ru) |
| 21.04.2026 at 10:00 (online) |
Olga Rospuskova (California Institute of Technology) | Local Coordination and the Geometry of Social Networks (en) |
| 28.04.2026 (online) |
Zaifu Yang (University of Macao) | Efficient and Fair Matching Mechanisms with Multilevel Coordination (en) |
| 05.05.2026 | Ekaterina Vostrenkova (HSE University – Saint Petersburg) | Strategy-proof mechanisms in congestion games (ru) |
| 12.05.2026 (online) |
Polina Borisova (Paris School of Economics) | TikToks vs. Movies: How Temporal Design Shapes Engagement (ru) (draft) |
| 20.05.2026 Wednesday (Room 339) 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
Manshu Khanna (Peking University HSBC Business School) | Timely Negotiations (en) (preprint) |
| Inacio Bo (University of Macau) | Visibly Fair Mechanisms (en) (preprint) | |
| 26.05.2026 (online) |
Constantine Sorokin (University of Glasgow) | How Adverse Selection Helps to Overcome Moral Hazard in Collective Contracts |
Seminars 2024-2025
| Date | Speaker | Title of the report |
| 05.11.2024 | Alexander Nesterov (National Research University Higher School of Economics - St. Petersburg) | New goals and plans (ru) |
| 12.11.2024 | Anna Shchiptsova (National Research University Higher School of Economics - St. Petersburg) | Global Phosphate Fertilizer Market, Spatially Distributed Model (ru) |
| 19.11.2024 | Ekaterina Vostrenkova (National Research University Higher School of Economics - St. Petersburg) | Optimal distributive right (ru) |
| 26.11.2024 | Artur Ignatyev, Yuri Dmentyev (Computer Science Space POMI RAS) | Fair Division with Subsidy (en) |
| 03.11.2024 | Yakov Zhukov (National Research University Higher School of Economics - St. Petersburg) | Cyclical potential games (ru) |
| 10.12.2024 | Vasily Gusev (National Research University Higher School of Economics - St. Petersburg) | How truthful mechanisms affect equilibrium in hiring games (ru) |
| 17.12.2024 | Alexey Suzdaltsev (National Research University Higher School of Economics - St. Petersburg) | Auctions with investments: new findings (ru) |
| 24.12.2024 | Alexey Kondratyev (National Research University Higher School of Economics - St. Petersburg) | Sustainability as a criterion for selecting positional scoring rules in sports (ru) |
| 14.01.2025 | Mikhail Sokolov (National Research University Higher School of Economics - St. Petersburg) | The property of “averaging” and its applications to the characterization of investment project performance indicators (ru) |
| 21.01.2025 | Marina Sandomirskaya (National Research University Higher School of Economics - St. Petersburg) | Pricing, Market Power, and Friction in a Finite Market: The Role of Capacities (en) |
| 28.01.2025 | Oleg Sviridov (National Research University Higher School of Economics - St. Petersburg) | Lexicographic probabilities and sequential equilibrium (ru) |
| 04.02.2025 | Yulia Kuchumova (National Research University Higher School of Economics - St. Petersburg) | Tax Audit Ecpectation Adjustment: Direct and Indirect Effects of an Audit (en) |
| 11.02.2025 | Konstantin Sorokin (National Research University Higher School of Economics - St. Petersburg) | A topological approach to the study of distortion of mappings between networks (ru) |
| 18.02.2025 | Arseniy Samsonov (Ozyegin University) | Information Agreements (en) |
| 25.02.2025 | Nikolay Knyazev (St. Petersburg State University) | Flexibility design of the project system (ru) |
| 04.03.2025 | Ivan Auster (National Research University Higher School of Economics - Moscow) | On the manipulability of the constrained Gale-Shapley and Boston school choice mechanisms. Comparing harm of manipulations (en) |
| 11.03.2025 | Alexander Nesterov (National Research University Higher School of Economics - St. Petersburg) | Reserves in targeted admissions: mechanism design approach (ru) |
| 18.03.2025 | Galina Shirokova (National Research University Higher School of Economics - St. Petersburg) | From Leadership to Resilience: The Role of CEO Entrepreneurial Orientation in Fostering Firm Resilience through Employee Intrapreneurship and AI (ru) |
| 25.03.2025 | Alexander Levin (National Research University Higher School of Economics - Moscow) | Using LLMs for ESG rating creation (ru) |
| 01.04.2025 | Rohit Vaish (Institute of Technology Delhi) | Fair Scheduling of Indivisible Chores (en) |
| 08.04.2025 | Anton Sobolev (University of Mannheim) | Persuasion without Priors (ru) |
| 15.04.2025 | Anna Shchiptsova (National Research University Higher School of Economics - St. Petersburg) | Preferences of applicants when choosing a university: an empirical model for the Russian higher education market (ru) |
| 22.04.2025 | Ivan Samoylenko (National Research University Higher School of Economics - St. Petersburg) | Coopetiton phenomenon, possible models and the reasons behind the existence of cooperation of Nash rational players (ru) |
| 29.04.2025 | Ekaterina Glazunova (UNECON) | Column Generation Method for Solving the Minimum Quota College Student Assignment Problem (ru) |
| 13.05.2025 |
Seminars 2022–2023
| Date | Speaker | Title of the report |
| 28.09.2022 | Nikolay Kukushkin (A. A. Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences) | Financial pyramid model with ‘quasi-rational’ participants (ru) |
| 28.09.2022 | Natalia Nikitina и Eugene Ivashko (KarRC RAS) | Game-theoretic models for drug development based on Desktop Grid (ru) |
| 29.09.2022 | Alexander Usvitsky (TyumSU) | Competition for Market Shares with Dynamic Spillovers: An Experiment (joint work with Dmitry Ryvkin) (en) |
| 05.10.2022 | Alexander Nesterov (National Research University Higher School of Economics - St. Petersburg) | DATING MARKET, FAMILIARITY GRAPHS, AND SELECTIVITY (en) |
| 19.10.2022 | Konstantin Efimov (National Research University Higher School of Economics - St. Petersburg) | Predicting the FAS decision in cases against cartels (ru) |
| 26.10.2022 | Anna Bogomolna (University of Glasgow, UK) | Fair Congestion (en) |
| 16.11.2022 | Alexey Suzdaltsev (National Research University Higher School of Economics - St. Petersburg) | Matching with Resources (en) |
| 16.11.2022 | Anna Ivashko (CarNTs RAS) | Best-Choice Games with Incomplete Information (en) |
| 25.01.2023 | Vasily Gusev (National Research University Higher School of Economics - St. Petersburg) | Punctuality stability of Nash equilibrium (en) |
| 01.02.2023 | Alexey Savvateev (MIPT, CEMI RAS) | Truels: duels of three persons (ru) |
| 02.02.2023 | Berang Kamali-Shahdadi (Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies) | Matching Unskilled/Skilled Workers to Firms Facing Budget Constraints (joint work with Amirreza Ahmadzadeh) (en) |
| 08.02.2023 | Mikhail Sokolov (EUSPb) | Measuring investment project's profitability (en) |
| 15.02.2023 | Dritiman Gupta (O.P. Jindal Global University) | Prize Sharing Rules in Collective Contests: Towards Strategic Foundations (en) |
| 22.02.2023 | Suazo Garin Peyo (National Research University Higher School of Economics) | "Failures of Contingent Thinking," joint with E. Piermont (Royal Holloway, University of London) (en) |
| 01.03.2023 | Elise Christophe (University of Ottawa) | Peaceability and Conflict (en) |
| 15.02.2023 | Bas Dietzenbacher (Maastricht University) | Stable streaming platforms: a cooperative game approach (joint paper with Schlicher and Musegaas) (en) |
| 19.04.2023 | Oleg Baranov (National Research University Higher School of Economics) | Spectrum Auctions as Games: Playing a ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Card (joint work with Lawrence M. Ausubel, Sam Dinkin) (en) |
| 26.04.2023 | Maria Teteryatnikova (National Research University Higher School of Economics) | On Perfect Pairwise Stable Networks (with Philippe Bich) (en) |
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