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The Fisher-Schultz Lecture of the Econometric Society

Econometric Society

The Econometric Society is an international society for the advancement of economic theory in its relation with statistics and mathematics. It was founded on December 29, 1930 at the Stalton Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio....

is an annual lecture given by a non-European member at the European meeting or, in World Congress years, at the World Congress. The lecture was named in honor of Irving Fisher

Irving Fisher

Irving Fisher was an American economist, inventor, and health campaigner, and one of the earliest American neoclassical economists, though his later work on debt deflation often regarded as belonging instead to the Post-Keynesian school.Fisher made important contributions to utility theory and...

and Henry Schultz

Henry Schultz

Henry Schultz was an American economist and statistician, one of the founders of econometrics.-Life:Henry Schultz was born on September 4, 1893 in a Polish family in Szarkowszczyzna, the Russian Empire...

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2011 Susan Athey

Susan Athey

Susan Carleton Athey is an American economist. She is currently Professor of Economics at Harvard University and the first female winner of the John Bates Clark Medal.- Early life :...

, Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

2010 Drew Fudenberg

Drew Fudenberg

Drew Fudenberg is the Frederick E. Abbe Professor of Economics at Harvard University. His extensive research spans many aspects of game theory, including equilibrium theory, learning in games, evolutionary game theory, and many applications of game theory to other fields...

, Harvard University

Harvard University

2009 Faruk R. Gül

Faruk Gül

Faruk R. Gül is a Turkish American economist, a professor of economics at Princeton University and a Fellow of the Econometric Society.Gül did his undergraduate studies at Boğaziçi University, and received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1986, where he was a student of Hugo F. Sonnenschein...

, Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

2008 Joel L. Horowitz, Northwestern University

Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....

2007 Matthew O. Jackson, Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

2006 Lars Peter Hansen

Lars Peter Hansen

Lars Peter Hansen is an economist at the University of Chicago.- Biography :After graduating from Utah State University and the University of Minnesota Lars Peter Hansen (b. October 26, 1952 in Champaign, Illinois) is an economist at the University of Chicago.- Biography :After graduating from...

, University of Chicago

University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

2005 Ariel Pakes, Harvard University

Harvard University

2004 Paul R. Milgrom

Paul Milgrom

Paul Robert Milgrom is an American economist. He is the Shirley and Leonard Ely Professor of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, a position he has held since 1987. Dr. Milgrom is an expert in game theory, specifically auction theory and pricing strategies...

, Stanford University

Stanford University

2003 Charles F. Manski

Charles F. Manski

Charles Frederick Manski, Professor of Economics at Northwestern University, is an econometrician in the realm of Rational choice theory, an innovator in the arena of identification. Manski’s research spans econometrics, judgement and decision, and the analysis of social policy...

, Northwestern University

Northwestern University

2002 Douglas Gale, New York University

New York University

New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...

2001 Gary E. Chamberlain, Harvard University

Harvard University

2000 James J. Heckman, University of Chicago

University of Chicago

1999 Alvin E. Roth

Alvin E. Roth

Alvin E. "Al" Roth is an American economist currently serving as the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration at Harvard Business School...

, Harvard University

Harvard University

1998 David Card

David Card

David Edward Card is a Canadian labour economist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley.Card earned his B.A. degree from Queen's University in 1978 and his Ph.D. degree in Economics in 1983 from Princeton University....

, University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

1997 Bengt R. Holmström

Bengt R. Holmström

Bengt Robert Holmström is the Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics at M.I.T. He is a Finnish citizen and belongs to the Swedish speaking minority in Finland....

, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...

1996 Robert F. Engle

Robert F. Engle

Robert Fry Engle III is an American economist and the winner of the 2003 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, sharing the award with Clive Granger, "for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility ".-Biography:Engle was born in Syracuse, New York and went on to...

, University of California, San Diego

University of California, San Diego

The University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...

1995 George A. Akerlof, University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

1994 Peter C. B. Phillips

Peter C. B. Phillips

Peter Charles Bonest Phillips is a leading econometrician. He received his PhD from London School of Economics under the supervision of John Denis Sargan in 1974. Since 1979 he has been Professor of Economics and Statistics at Yale University...

, Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

1993 Clive W. J. Granger, University of California, San Diego

University of California, San Diego

The University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...

1992 Robert H. Porter, Northwestern University

Northwestern University

1991 Robert E. Lucas, Jr., University of Chicago

University of Chicago

1990 David M. Kreps

David M. Kreps

David Marc "Dave" Kreps is a game theorist and economist and professor at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He is known for his analysis of dynamic choice models and non-cooperative game theory, particularly the idea of sequential equilibrium, which he developed with Stanford...

, Stanford University

Stanford University

1989 Angus S. Deaton

Angus Deaton

Angus Stewart Deaton is a leading microeconomist. He was educated at Fettes College in Edinburgh, where he was a Foundation Scholar, and earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D...

, Princeton University

Princeton University

1988 Oliver Hart, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1987 Joseph E. Stiglitz

Joseph E. Stiglitz

Joseph Eugene Stiglitz, ForMemRS, FBA, is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and the John Bates Clark Medal . He is also the former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank...

, Princeton University

Princeton University

1986 Robert B. Wilson

Robert B. Wilson

Robert Butler "Bob" Wilson, Jr. is an American economist and the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus at Stanford University. He is known for his contributions to management science and business economics. His doctoral thesis introduced sequential quadratic programming, which...

, Stanford University

Stanford University

1985 Andreu Mas-Colell

Andreu Mas-Colell

Andreu Mas-Colell is a Spanish economist, an expert in microeconomics and one of the world's leading mathematical economists. He is the founder of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and a professor in the department of economics at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain...

, Harvard University

Harvard University

1984 Hugo F. Sonnenschein

Hugo F. Sonnenschein

Hugo Freund Sonnenschein is a prominent American economist and educational administrator. Currently the Adam Smith Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago, his specialty is microeconomic theory; with a particular interest in game theory...

, Princeton University

Princeton University

1983 Arnold Zellner

Arnold Zellner

Arnold Zellner was an American economist and statistician specializing in the fields of Bayesian probability and econometrics...

, University of Chicago

University of Chicago

1982 Jerry A. Hausman

Jerry A. Hausman

Jerry A. Hausman is the John and Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a famous econometrician. He has also published numerous papers in applied microeconomics...

, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1981 Peter A. Diamond

Peter A. Diamond

Peter Arthur Diamond is an American economist known for his analysis of U.S. Social Security policy and his work as an advisor to the Advisory Council on Social Security in the late 1980s and 1990s. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2010, along with Dale T. Mortensen...

, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1980 Martin S. Feldstein, Harvard University

Harvard University

1979 Daniel L. McFadden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1978 Herbert E. Scarf

Herbert Scarf

Herbert Eli "Herb" Scarf is an American mathematical economist and Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...

, Yale University

Yale University

1977 Christopher A. Sims

Christopher A. Sims

Christopher Albert "Chris" Sims is an econometrician and macroeconomist. He is currently the Harold B. Helms Professor of Economics and Banking at Princeton University. Together with Thomas Sargent, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2011. The award cited their "empirical...

, University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...

1976 John S. Chipman, University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota

1975 Dale W. Jorgenson

Dale W. Jorgenson

Dale Weldeau Jorgenson is the Samuel W. Morris University Professor at Harvard University, teaching in the Department of Economics and John F. Kennedy School of Government...

, Harvard University

Harvard University

1974 Lionel W. McKenzie

Lionel W. McKenzie

Lionel Wilfred McKenzie was the Wilson Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Rochester. He was born in Montezuma, Georgia. He completed undergraduate studies at Duke University in 1939 and subsequently moved to Oxford that year as a Rhodes Scholar...

, University of Rochester

University of Rochester

The University of Rochester is a private, nonsectarian, research university in Rochester, New York, United States. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The university has six schools and various interdisciplinary programs.The...

1973 Zvi Griliches

Zvi Griliches

Hirsh Zvi Griliches was an economist at Harvard University. He was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in an assimilated Jewish family that spoke Russian at home. During World War II he was sent to the Dachau concentration camp...

, Harvard University

Harvard University

1972 Roy Radner

Roy Radner

Roy Radner is currently Leonard N. Stern School Professor of Business at New York University. He is a micro-economic theorist with varied interests...

, University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

1971 Arthur Goldberger

Arthur Goldberger

Arthur Stanley Goldberger was an econometrician and an economist. He worked with Nobel Prize winner Lawrence Klein on the development of the famous Klein–Goldberger macroeconomic computer model at the University of Michigan...

, University of Wisconsin, Madison

1970 Marc Nerlove

Marc Nerlove

Marc Leon Nerlove is an American economist specialized in agricultural economics and econometrics. He is currently Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland. In 1969 he was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal for his contributions to economics.Marc Nerlove...

, University of Chicago

University of Chicago

1969 Gérard Debreu

Gerard Debreu

Gérard Debreu was a French economist and mathematician, who also came to have United States citizenship. Best known as a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he began work in 1962, he won the 1983 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.-Biography:His father was the...

, University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

1968 Franklin M. Fisher

Franklin M. Fisher

Franklin Marvin Fisher is an American economist. He has taught economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1960.-Biography:...

, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1967 Lawrence R. Klein, University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

1966 Tjalling C. Koopmans, Yale University

Yale University

1965 Jacob Marschak

Jacob Marschak

Jacob Marschak was an American economist of Ukrainian Jewish origin.- Life :...

, UCLA

1964 James Tobin

James Tobin

James Tobin was an American economist who, in his lifetime, served on the Council of Economic Advisors and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and taught at Harvard and Yale Universities. He developed the ideas of Keynesian economics, and advocated government intervention to...

, Yale University

Yale University

1963 Leonid Hurwicz

Leonid Hurwicz

Leonid "Leo" Hurwicz was a Russian-born American economist and mathematician. His nationality of origin was Polish. He was Jewish. He originated incentive compatibility and mechanism design, which show how desired outcomes are achieved in economics, social science and political science...

, University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota

1962 Robert M. Solow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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