New Economic School

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The New Economic School (NES) is the leading Russian graduate program in Economics. NES was founded in 1992 by the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences[1] and Moscow State University [2]. The birth and current operation of the school has been supported by a number of highly accredited academic economists such as Don Patinkin, Zvi Griliches, Stanley Fischer, Olivier Blanchard, Bronwyn Hall, Jan Magnus and others.

NES's highly selective incoming classes are about 100 students with degrees in mathematics, physics, economics, computer science, engineering. NES graduates about 60-70 MA students a year. About a dozen NES graduates are placed annually to the top Ph.D. programs in US, UK, Europe, Australia.

NES was one of the first schools in Russia to offer educational loans, and is the only institution in Russia that has the system of tenure and tenure-track faculty positions. It has the highest concentration of the Western Ph.D.s publishing in high profile journals including American Economic Review, Econometrica and Quarterly Journal of Economics.

NES is integrated with Centre for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR), a think tank devoted to research in economic policy and economics of transition.