Manchot Lecture

Professor Mellisa Dell

Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics
Harvard University

Topic: TBA

Dell´s research focuses on economic growth and political econom. She has examined the factors leading to the persistence of poverty and prosperity in the long run, the effects of trade-induced job loss on crime, the impacts of U.S. foreign intervention, and the effects of weather on economic growth.

Professor Dirk Bergemann 

Professor of Economics
Yale University

The Role of Information Design in the Digital Economy

Bergemann's research is in the area of game theory, contract theory, venture capital, and market design. His most recent work is in the area of auction and information design. His research is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, the Knight Foundation, the Omidyar Network and Google.

Professor Per Krusell

Professor of Economics
Stockholm University

Centennial Professor
London School of Economics

Climate Policy: Another Case for "Whatever it Takes"?

Per Krusell's research has focused on macroeconomics, broadly defined, with particular contributions in the areas of technological change, inequality, political economy, macroeconomic policy and labor economics. He is currently pursuing a long-term project on the interactions between global sustainability, in particular climate change and the economy.

Professor Eliana La Ferrara 

Professor of Development Economics
Università Bocconi, Milan

Eliana La Ferrara's research is in development economics, with a particular focus on ethnicity, social norms, institutions and the media. She holds the Fondazione Romeo ed Enrica Invernizzi Chair in Development Economics at the Bocconi University in Milan.

Professor Guido Tabellini

Professor of Economics
Università Bocconi, Milan

Is Europe an optimal political area?

Guido Tabellini's research focuses on political economy. He holds the Intesa Sanpaolo Chair in Political Economics at the Bocconi University in Milan. Professor Tabellini has been a President of the European Economic Association and a recipient of its highest prize, the Y. Jahnsson Award.

Professor Monika Piazzesi

Joan Kenney Professor of Economics

Department of Economics, Stanford University

Crazy house prices? Lessons from recent booms and busts 

Monika Piazzesi's research focuses on asset pricing and time series econometrics. She is a professor at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and program director of the Asset Pricing Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Professor Thomas Piketty

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
École d'Économie de Paris/Paris School of Economics (PSE)

Rising inequality and globalisation 

Thomas Piketty is the author of numerous articles published in journals and of a dozen books. He has done major historical and theoretical work on the interplay between economic development and the distribution of income and wealth. In particular, he is the initiator of the recent literature on the long run evolution of top income shares in national income. These works have led to radically question the optimistic relationship between development and inequality posited by Kuznets and to emphasize the role of political, social and fiscal institutions in the historical evolution of income and wealth distribution. He is also the author of the international bestseller “Capital in the 21st century” (Source: Paris School of Economics).

Professor Charles F. Manski

Board of Trustees Professor

Northwestern University

Communicating Uncertainty in Policy Analysis

Charles Manski's research spans econometrics, judgement and decision and the analysis of public policy. He is author of “Public Policy in an Uncertain World”, “Identification for Prediction and Decision” and “Identification Problems in the Social Sciences”. He has served as Director of the Institute for Research on Poverty and editor of the Journal of Human Resources. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the British Academy (Source: Northwestern University). 

Professor Susan Athey

The Economics of Technology Professor
Professor of Economics (by courtesy),
School of Humanities and Sciences

Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

The Internet and the News Media

Susan Athey is professor at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and served as chief economist for the Microsoft Corporation. In 2007, she won the John Bates Clark Medal awarded by the American Economics Association. The Medal is awarded to junior scientists who have made a “significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge”.

Professor Daron Acemoglu

Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Rights and States: A Political Economy Perspective

Professor Acemoglu is one of the top ten most cited economists in the world and also known to the general public as author of the international bestseller “Why Nations Fail”. The German newspaper Die Welt concludes about his work: “One should keep in mind the name Daron Acemoglu”.

Professor John Hardman Moore

University of Edinburgh & London School of Economics

Professor Hal Varian

Chief Economist at Google, Inc.
Emeritus Professor at University of California, Berkeley

Professor Matthew Rabin

Edward G. and Nancy S. Jordan Professor of Economics

University of California, Berkeley

Professor James J. Heckman

Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics

University of Chicago

2000 Nobel Memorial Prize Winner in Economic Sciences

Professor Torsten Persson

Professor and Director at the Institute for International Economic Studies

Stockholm University

Centennial Professor

London School of Economics

Professor Jean Tirole

Toulouse School of Economics & Institut d'Économie Industrielle        

Financial Crises: Regulation, Liquidity Provision and Crisis Management      

Professor Philippe Aghion

Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics

Harvard University

How to Stimulate Growth in Europe?

Professor Paul Milgrom

Shirley and Leonard Ely Professor of Humanities and Sciences

Stanford University

Professor Alvin Roth

George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration

Harvard University