The application request

Participants are invited to submit extended abstracts of their research papers for presentation at the Conference sessions. Submissions will be accepted from September 10 till November 12, 2012, only through on-line registration at: http://conf.hse.ru/ .

The application should include the speaker’s name, place of work and position, the contact address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail and the title of the proposed paper. A detailed summary of the proposed presentation should be attached to the application, in Word or PDF format, in 1 - 3 pages with 1,5 line spacing (up to 7000 symbols) or full version of the paper. The summary should outline the issue, show the level of the research, include characteristics of the research (theoretical or empirical type of the work, its informational base), as well as its main results. Abstracts which are less than 1 page in length will not be accepted. One applicant may submit 1 paper at the conference and not more than 2 papers in co-authored.

Applicants can also indicate whether they are willing to participate in a symposium on one of the Conference’s special topics. The group of applicants after on-line registration until November 12, 2012 may inform the Conference Program Committee of their wish to submit their papers on one session. A letter should be sent to the address interconf@hse.ru  and should contain information about the title of proposed session; speakers (no more than 3 - 4, already registered as individual applicants) and the topic of the research, as well as name and contact information (phone and e-mail address) of the supposed chairperson of the session. Duration of one session is 1.5 hours. Proposals for the formation of such sessions can be taken into consideration by the Program Committee during the papers' expertise and the formation of the Conference program.

The Program Committee will announce the decision on the inclusion of papers in the Conference program by January 21, 2013, considering the results of the expertise made by independent experts.

Authors of the papers included in the Conference program are requested to send full-text versions of the text (in Word, RTF or PDF format) by March 4, 2013 for publication on the Conference website. Final versions of the papers should be sent by May 20, 2013. The decision about their publication in the Conference e-volume will be made by the editorial board. The papers not presented at the Conference will not be considered for publication.

Papers included in the conference program after further review and consideration of revisions can be accepted for publication in the journals "Economic Issues", "Russian Journal of Management," " Economic Journal of HSE", "Journal of the New Economic Association," "World of Russia", "Journal of Educational Studies”, "Questions of Public Administration ","Economic Sociology ","Economic policy ", “Economic science of modern Russia”; representatives of these journals are invited to participate in the Conference Program Committee.

Participants from the CIS and Eastern Europe countries invited to present their papers may apply for a grant from the Moscow Office of the World Bank until February 11, 2013to interconf@hse.ru.

Online registration for participation without presenting a paper will be available from November 13, 2012 until March 10, 2013 at http://conf.hse.ru/