The application request

The papers should present the results of original research carried out with modern research methodology. Papers presented at sessions could usually be summarized in PowerPoint during 15-20 minutes. As a rule, the average presentation on a round table lasts from 5 to 7 min. Conference program of the sessions and round tables will be formed according the requests. 

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 11, 2013, only through on-line registration at this webpage.  

A detailed summary of the proposed presentation should be attached to the application, in Word or RTF format, in 1 - 3 pages with 1, 5 line spacing (up to 7000 symbols). 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. 

The group of applicants after on-line registration until November 11, 2013 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. One applicant may submit one individual paper at the conference and not more than two co-authored papers . On one session there should be no more than 2 papers submitted from the same organization. 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' review 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 28, 2014, 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) by March 5, 2014 for publication on the Conference website. At the end of the conference Higher School of Economics will prepare and issue a conference e-volume, containing all papers which were presented at the conference. Final versions of the papers should be sent by May 20, 2014. (20 000 symbols with spaces in Word, RTF). 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. 

Participants from the CIS and Eastern Europe countries whose papers are included in the program may apply for a grant from the Moscow Office of the World Bank until February 14, 2014 to interconf@hse.ru   

Online registration for participation without presenting a paper will be available from November 11, 2013 until March 14, 2014 at the conference website. 

Honorary guests of the Conference as well as those colleagues specially invited by the Program Committee, heads and chairmen of session meetings as well as discussants are exempt from the registration fee.

Programs and papers of the previous I-ХIV International Academic Conferences on the problems of economic modernization organized by HSE are available at http://conf.hse.ru/2013/history.