Corporate Finance Center was founded in June 2006 at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. The Laboratory strives to promote high-quality research on the application of financial theory and methods to real-world corporate financial policy, corporate activity, and corporate governance studies. The Laboratory's goal is to advance new knowledge for companies and to provide a platform for discussing empirical findings in corporate finance.
International Conference «ESG Corporate Dynamics: the Challenges for Emerging Capital Markets»
ESG Conference is a truly significant platform for sharing cutting-edge research on the ESG transformation of companies in BRICS countries and other emerging capital markets.
In 2025, the conference plans to bring together leading experts and researchers from different countries worldwide to share best practices in the field of ESG.
The keynote speakers for the 2025 conference will be:
- Ahmet Faruk Aysan (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar) with a report on "Agents as Cofounders? Startup Signals of AI Adoption and Venture Funding"
- Kai Wu (Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing) with a report titled "The Hidden Costs of Greening Supply Chains."
More detailed information about the conference can be found at the link.
On June 17th, the regular research seminar of the Corporate Finance Centre was held. The seminar was dedicated to discussing current issues of asset pricing in emerging capital markets and methods for assessing the impact of digital transformation across economic sectors on the sustainable development of companies.
On June 9th, the regular research seminar of the Corporate Finance Center was held. The seminar was dedicated to discussing a comprehensive set of metric indicators for assessing business resilience to structural crises and high uncertainty for companies in emerging markets, in the context of challenges posed by new globalization processes, for the purpose of constructing composite indices.
