Walras-Bowley Lecture - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Walras-Bowley Lecture is an annual 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....

, given by a non-North-American member at the summer North American meeting or, in World Congress years, at the World Congress. The lecture was named in honor of Léon Walras

Léon Walras

Marie-Esprit-Léon Walras was a French mathematical economist associated with the creation of the general equilibrium theory.-Life and career:...

and A. L. Bowley

Arthur Lyon Bowley

Sir Arthur Lyon Bowley was an English statistician and economist who worked on economic statistics and pioneered the use of sampling techniques in social surveys....

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2011 Manuel Arellano

Manuel Arellano

Manuel Arellano is a highly cited Spanish economist specialising in econometrics and empirical microeconomics. He has been a professor of economics at CEMFI in Madrid since 1991.He studied economics at Universidad de Barcelona....

, CEMFI

CEMFI

CEMFI is an institution devoted to teaching and research in Economics. It was started in 1987, becoming the foundation of the Bank of Spain in 1991. It is located in Madrid....

2010 Orazio Attanasio

Orazio Attanasio

Orazio Attanasio is an Italian economist. He graduated from the University of Bologna in 1982 and London School of Economics in 1988. He then went to teach at Stanford. He is currently professor at University College London and member of IFS.- Publication :#Pension Wealth and Household Saving:...

, University College London

University College London

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2009 Jean-Marc Robin, Paris School of Economics

Paris School of Economics

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, University of Paris I, and University College London

University College London

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2008 Zvi Eckstein, Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University is a public university located in Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel. With nearly 30,000 students, TAU is Israel's largest university.-History:...

2007 Christopher Pissarides

Christopher A. Pissarides

Christopher Antoniou Pissarides F.B.A. is a Cypriot economist. He currently holds the Norman Sosnow Chair in Economics at the London School of Economics. His research interests focus on several topics of macroeconomics, notably labor, economic growth, and economic policy. In 2010, he was awarded...

, London School of Economics

London School of Economics

The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...

2006 Nobuhiro Kiyotaki

Nobuhiro Kiyotaki

is a Japanese economist and professor at Princeton University especially known for proposing several models that provide deeper microeconomic foundations for macroeconomics, some of which play a prominent role in New Keynesian macroeconomics.-Career:...

, London School of Economics

London School of Economics

2005 Timothy Besley, London School of Economics

London School of Economics

2004 John Sutton

John Sutton (economist)

John Sutton is the Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics.Sutton received his undergraduate education at University College Dublin, a graduate degree from Trinity College Dublin, and earned his Ph.D. at University of Sheffield. He taught at the University of...

, London School of Economics

London School of Economics

2003 Sergiu Hart

Sergiu Hart

Sergiu Hart is an Israeli mathematician and economist and the past President of the Game Theory Society . He is the Kusiel-Vorreuter University Professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel.Hart was born in Bucharest, Romania and immigrated to...

, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ; ; abbreviated HUJI) is Israel's second-oldest university, after the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. The Hebrew University has three campuses in Jerusalem and one in Rehovot. The world's largest Jewish studies library is located on its Edmond J...

Richard Blundell

Richard Blundell, CBE, FBA is a British Economist and Econometrician.He is currently the David Ricardo Professor of Political Economy at University College London and Research Director at Institute for Fiscal Studies...

, University College London

University College London

University College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...

2001 Mathias Dewatripont

Mathias Dewatripont

Mathias François Dewatripont is a Belgian economist and professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles and visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ....

, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Université Libre de Bruxelles

The Université libre de Bruxelles is a French-speaking university in Brussels, Belgium. It has 21,000 students, 29% of whom come from abroad, and an equally cosmopolitan staff.-Name:...

2000 Torsten Persson

Torsten Persson

Torsten Persson is a Swedish economist and the director of the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University. He has also taught in England, the United States, and Israel...

, Stockholm University

Stockholm University

Stockholm University is a state university in Stockholm, Sweden. It has over 28,000 students at four faculties, making it one of the largest universities in Scandinavia. The institution is also frequently regarded as one of the top 100 universities in the world...

Philippe Aghion

Philippe Aghion is a French economist. He is Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics at Harvard University, having previously been Professor at University College London, an Official Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and an Assistant Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology .His main...

, 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...

Adrian Pagan

Adrian Pagan is an Australian economist and Professor of Economics in the School of Economics at the University of Sydney...

, Australian National University

Australian National University

The Australian National University is a teaching and research university located in the Australian capital, Canberra.As of 2009, the ANU employs 3,945 administrative staff who teach approximately 10,000 undergraduates, and 7,500 postgraduate students...

1997 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...

, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Pompeu Fabra University

Pompeu Fabra University is a university in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is widely considered to be one of the best universities in Spain and in Europe, and was ranked 1st in scientific productivity in Spain in 2009. Founded in 1990, it is named after the Catalan philologist Pompeu Fabra...

1996 John Moore

John Hardman Moore

John Hardman Moore is an economic theorist. He was appointed Professor of Political Economy at the University of Edinburgh in 2000. Previously, in 1983, he was appointed to the London School of Economics, where in 1990 he became Professor of Economic Theory, a position he still holds.- Education...

, London School of Economics

London School of Economics

1995 Guy Laroque, INSEE

INSEE

INSEE is the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies. It collects and publishes information on the French economy and society, carrying out the periodic national census. Located in Paris, it is the French branch of Eurostat, European Statistical System...

1994 Jean Tirole

Jean Tirole

Jean Marcel Tirole is a French professor of economics. He works on industrial organization, game theory, banking and finance, and economics and psychology. Tirole is director of the Jean-Jacques Laffont Foundation at the Toulouse School of Economics, and scientific director of the Industrial...

University of Basel

The University of Basel is located in Basel, Switzerland, and is considered to be one of leading universities in the country...

1992 Elhanan Helpman

Elhanan Helpman

Elhanan Helpman is an Israeli-American economist who works in the field of international trade, political economy and economic growth.-Biography:...

, Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University is a public university located in Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel. With nearly 30,000 students, TAU is Israel's largest university.-History:...

Russian Academy of Sciences

The Russian Academy of Sciences consists of the national academy of Russia and a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation as well as auxiliary scientific and social units like libraries, publishers and hospitals....

Reinhard Selten

-Life and career:Selten was born in Breslau in Lower Silesia, now in Poland, to a Jewish father, Adolf Selten, and Protestant mother, Käthe Luther. For his work in game theory, Selten won the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences...

, University of Bonn

University of Bonn

The University of Bonn is a public research university located in Bonn, Germany. Founded in its present form in 1818, as the linear successor of earlier academic institutions, the University of Bonn is today one of the leading universities in Germany. The University of Bonn offers a large number...

1989 Partha Dasgupta

Partha Dasgupta

Professor Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta, FRS, FBA , is the Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge; Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; and Professor of Environmental and Development Economics at the...

, University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...

1988 Ariel Rubinstein

Ariel Rubinstein

Ariel Rubinstein is an Israeli economist who works in game theory. He was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1972–1979, in both mathematics and economics...

, Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University is a public university located in Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel. With nearly 30,000 students, TAU is Israel's largest university.-History:...

Mervyn King (economist)

An ex-officio member of the Bank's interest-rate setting Monetary Policy Committee since its inception in 1997, Sir Mervyn is the only person to have taken part in every one of its monthly meetings to date. His voting style is often seen as "hawkish", a perspective that emphasises the dangers of...

, London School of Economics

London School of Economics

1986 David Hendry

David Forbes Hendry

Sir David Forbes Hendry, FBA is a British econometrician, currently a professor of economics and from 2001-2007 was Head of the Economics Department at the University of Oxford...

, University of Oxford

University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...

1985 A. B. Atkinson

Anthony Barnes Atkinson

Sir Anthony Barnes "Tony" Atkinson, FBA, is a British economist and has been a Senior Research Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford since 2005.-Career:Atkinson served as Warden of Nuffield College from 1994 to 2005...

, London School of Economics

London School of Economics

(Econometrica
Econometrica
Econometrica is a peer-reviewed academic journal of economics, publishing articles not only in econometrics but in many areas of economics. It is published by the Econometric Society and distributed by Wiley-Blackwell. Econometrica is one of the most highly ranked economics journals in the world...

Vol. 55, No. 4, 749-764)

1984 Jean-Michel Grandmont, CEPREMAP (Econometrica
Econometrica
Econometrica is a peer-reviewed academic journal of economics, publishing articles not only in econometrics but in many areas of economics. It is published by the Econometric Society and distributed by Wiley-Blackwell. Econometrica is one of the most highly ranked economics journals in the world...

Vol. 53, No. 5, 995-1045)

1983 Jean-Jacques Laffont

Jean-Jacques Laffont

Jean-Jacques Marcel Laffont was a French economist specializing in public economics and information economics. Educated at the University of Toulouse and the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique in Paris, he was awarded the Ph.D...

, Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse (Econometrica
Econometrica
Econometrica is a peer-reviewed academic journal of economics, publishing articles not only in econometrics but in many areas of economics. It is published by the Econometric Society and distributed by Wiley-Blackwell. Econometrica is one of the most highly ranked economics journals in the world...

Vol. 53, No. 1, 1-30)

1982 C. Christian von Weizsäcker, University of Bern (Econometrica
Econometrica
Econometrica is a peer-reviewed academic journal of economics, publishing articles not only in econometrics but in many areas of economics. It is published by the Econometric Society and distributed by Wiley-Blackwell. Econometrica is one of the most highly ranked economics journals in the world...

Vol. 52, No. 5, 1085-1116)

1981 Eytan Sheshinski, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1980 James Mirrlees

James Mirrlees

Sir James Alexander Mirrlees is a Scottish economist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was knighted in 1998....

, University of Oxford

University of Oxford

1979 Werner Hildenbrand

Werner Hildenbrand

Werner Hildenbrand is a German economist and mathematician. He was educated at the University of Heidelberg, were he received his Diplom in mathematics, applied mathematics and physics in 1961. He continued his education at the University of Heidelberg and received his Ph.D...

, University of Bonn

University of Bonn

T. N. Srinivasan

Thirukodikaval Nilakanta "T. N." Srinivasan is the Samuel C. Park, Jr. Professor of Economics at Yale University. He was formerly chairman of the department of economics at Yale University...

, The World Bank

World Bank Group

The World Bank Group is a family of five international organizations that makes leveraged loans, generally to poor countries.The Bank came into formal existence on 27 December 1945 following international ratification of the Bretton Woods agreements, which emerged from the United Nations Monetary...

1977 Menahem Yaari, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1976 Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen, CH is an Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory, and for his interest in the problems of society's poorest members...

, London School of Economics

London School of Economics

Université catholique de Louvain

The Université catholique de Louvain, sometimes known, especially in Belgium, as UCL, is Belgium's largest French-speaking university. It is located in Louvain-la-Neuve and in Brussels...

London School of Economics

Michio Morishima

was a Japanese economist, mathematician and econometrician, who was a faculty member at the London School of Economics from 1970-88 as the Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics...

, London School of Economics

London School of Economics

Robert Aumann

Robert John Aumann is an Israeli-American mathematician and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel...

, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Edmond Malinvaud

Edmond Malinvaud is a French economist. He was the first president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences....

, Direction de la Prévision (Econometrica
Econometrica
Econometrica is a peer-reviewed academic journal of economics, publishing articles not only in econometrics but in many areas of economics. It is published by the Econometric Society and distributed by Wiley-Blackwell. Econometrica is one of the most highly ranked economics journals in the world...

Vol. 41, No. 3, 383-410)

1970

1969 F. H. Hahn

Frank Hahn

Frank Horace Hahn is a British economist whose work has focused on general equilibrium theory, monetary theory, Keynesian economics and monetarism...

, London School of Economics

London School of Economics

Osaka University

, or , is a major national university located in Osaka, Japan. It is the sixth oldest university in Japan as the Osaka Prefectural Medical College, and formerly one of the Imperial Universities of Japan...

1966 A. W. Phillips

William Phillips (economist)

Alban William Housego "A. W." "Bill" Phillips, MBE was an influential New Zealand economist who spent most of his academic career at the London School of Economics . His best-known contribution to economics is the Phillips curve, which he first described in 1958...

, London School of Economics

London School of Economics

1965 Pieter de Wolff

1964

1963 Pierre Massé, Commissariat général du Plan (Econometrica
Econometrica
Econometrica is a peer-reviewed academic journal of economics, publishing articles not only in econometrics but in many areas of economics. It is published by the Econometric Society and distributed by Wiley-Blackwell. Econometrica is one of the most highly ranked economics journals in the world...

Vol. 33, No. 2, 265-276)

1962

1961 Maurice Allais

Maurice Allais

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, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris

École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris

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