The International School of Economics is happy to announce open house days for our prospective students of Master’s and Bachelor’s degree programs in Economics. Open house guests will have an opportunity to get full information about ISET and its programs, get answers to all questions and meet our faculty, students, and alumni. The meeting for Bachelor’s program will be held at the ISET building, on May 4, at 17:00. The Open House Day for Master’s program will be held online, in ZOOM platform, on May 11, at 18:00.

We’re delighted to highlight two of Muhammad Asali upcoming economics papers. Professor Asali has once again proven his international credibility and emphaized the significance of his research in the field. The first piece, Labor Market Flexibility and Exchange Rate Regimes, co-authored with Kuokstis and Spurga, is soon to be published in the European Journal of Political Economy. The work offers the first evidence about the causal relationship between labor market flexibility and the choice of exchange rate regimes. The analysis identifies that more flexible labor markets are expected to have a higher degree of exchange rate fixity; to adopt fixed…

After months of thorough research and hard work, followed by an intensive testing phase, the ISET Policy Institute is delighted to launch its newly redesigned website.  ISET PI is a think-tank with a core mission to deliver policy analyses to the public, and so having the best platform possible is a must. We hope you like the fresh new look of the site, as well as the improved navigation that allows you to find our Research Reports, Policy Briefs, and RIAs, go through our Policy Research, and read our Blogs. You can also follow our News and Events and check our Indexes – including our celebrity publication the Khachapuri Index.  Please let…

Zurab Abramishvili, Head of the Undergraduate Studies at ISET, was selected as a finalist within the University Administration Support Program (UASP) Research Management Fellowship, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and administered by IREX. Within the framework of the fellowship Zurab spent five weeks at Indiana University in Bloomington. The Indiana University visit was a valuable experience for Zurab to further exchange ideas about research management strategies and observe these management practices in person. “I am extremely grateful to Carnegie Corporation of New York and IREX for granting me this opportunity. My experience gained from Indiana University will…