The New Economic School (NES) is a graduate school in modern economics with an accompanying research center.
The research center was esablished in 1995, it enables students, visiting scholars and NES faculty (including those returning from training abroad) work together on research projects related to the economic transition.
The initial core program of the Center is the study of the problems of Transforming Government in Economies in Transition (GET). Some recent areas of research have included
- macroeconomic stabilization
- financial industrial groups, banking and financial markets
- reform in Volga cities
- fiscal federalism
- rent-seeking and corruption
- income distribution and poverty
- pensions, health care, and the environment
In its teaching activities, the school aims to provide a standard graduate economics curriculum to students from Russia and other parts of the former Soviet Union. The School’s goal is to train world-class, professional economists to serve the growing needs of the academic, public and private sectors in the region.
The academic program is designed to promote the development of the discipline of economics, and to train a new generation of academic economists. To this end, NES actively encourages its graduates to complete their Ph.D. studies abroad in the hope that, on their return, these NES graduates, together with locally trained instructors, will form the core of new faculties at NES, other universities, and research institutions in the region.
The NES website is available in English and Russian. It includes an 3 working paper series which are downloadable in English and/or Russian, these are the recent research of NES-affiliated faculty and staff; the best papers prepared by NES students in their thesis work; the third is lecture notes.