OREANDA-NEWS. April 29, 2010. Marat Bashirov, Senior Vice President for Strategic Communications and Regional Policy of CJSC IES-Holding awarded diplomas to the winners of the First National Prize in Applied Economics. The awarding ceremony took place on April 8 in Moscow in the context of the Ninth International Academic Conference sponsored by the State University - Higher School of Economics (HSE).

IES-Holding is a partner of the Prize awarded for outstanding published research works related to analysis of the Russian economy. The founders of the Prize aim at ascertaining and promoting of scientific works of great importance both for development of scientific research and economic education in Russia, and for enhancement of efficiency of the Russian economy and economic policy.

In 2010 the Prize was awarded to Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Klara Sabirianova Peter for their work Myths and Reality of Flat Tax Reform: Micro Estimates of Tax Evasion Response and Welfare Effects in Russia.

In his speech at the ceremony the Senior Vice President of CJSC IES congratulated the winners and expressed gratitude to the founders and jury of the Prize. "I hope that the prize will promote rapprochement of academic science and real sector of the national economy", commented Mr. Bashirov. "The winners of the Prize in 2010 are Russian researchers who work overseas. But in recent years scientists tend to return back home. All conditions for their successful work in Russia have been already created". 

National Prize in Applied Economics was established in 2009 by the Higher School of Economics (HSE, Moscow), New Economic School (NES, Moscow), the Gorky Urals State University (USU, Ekaterinburg), the Association of Russian Economic Think Tanks (ARETT, Moscow), the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO, RAS) and Business magazine Expert (Moscow). The Prize will be awarded biannually starting from 2010. The amount of the Prize in 2010 accounted for 1.5 million rubles.