Manchot Lecture
Since the academic year 2005/06, with generous support by the Jürgen Manchot Foundation, the BGSE organizes annual Manchot Lectures. The lectures are delivered by internationally distinguished experts and address a general audience interested in economic research.
The 17th Manchot Lecture will take place November 16, 2023:
Professor Per Krusell
Professor of Economics
Stockholm University
Centennial Professor
London School of Economics
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.
The 16th Manchot Lecture took place on July 7, 2022:
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.
4.30 PM, Venue: LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn, Colmantstr. 14-16, 53115 Bonn
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The 15th Manchot Lecture took place on January 23, 2020:
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.
5 p.m. ct, Lecture Hall C, Juridicum
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The 14th Manchot Lecture took place on January 24, 2019:
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 of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
5 p.m. ct, Lecture Hall C, Juridicum
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The 13th Manchot Lecture took place on January 25, 2018:
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 best-seller Capital in the 21st century (Source: Paris School of Economics).
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The 12th Manchot Lecture took place on January 26, 2017:
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).
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The 11th Manchot Lecture took place on January 22, 2016:
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 Standford 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.”
10th Manchot Lecture
The 10th Manchot Lecture took place on January 16, 2015:
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”.
The 9th Manchot Lecture took place on November 15, 2013:
Professor John Hardman Moore
University of Edinburgh and London School of Economics
Leverage Stacks and the Financial System
The 8th Manchot Lecture took place on November 7, 2012:
Professor Hal Varian
Chief Economist at Google, Inc.
Emeritus Professor at University of California, Berkeley
Predicting the Present with Google Trends
The 7th Manchot Lecture took place on January 27, 2012:
Professor Matthew Rabin
Edward G. and Nancy S. Jordan Professor of Economics
University of California, Berkeley
Incorporating Psychology into Economic Theory
The 6th Manchot Lecture took place on January 28, 2011:
Professor James J. Heckman
Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
2000 Nobel Memorial Prize Winner in Economic Sciences
The Developmental Origins of Inequality
The 5th Manchot Lecture took place on December 17, 2009:
Professor Torsten Persson
Professor and Director at the Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University, and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics
State Capacity, Conflict, and Development
The 4th Manchot Lecture took place on February 5, 2009:
Professor Jean Tirole
Toulouse School of Economics & Institut d'Économie Industrielle
Financial Crises: Regulation, Liquidity Provision and Crisis Management
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The 3rd Manchot Lecture took place on January 25, 2008:
Professor Philippe Aghion
Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics,
Harvard University
How to Stimulate Growth in Europe?
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Intro
Lecture part I
lecture part II
Discussion
The 2nd Manchot Lecture took place in December 2006:
Professor Paul Milgrom
Shirley and Leonard Ely Professor of Humanities and Sciences,
Stanford University
Market Design
The 1st Manchot Lecture took place in January 2006:
Professor Alvin Roth
George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration,
Harvard University
The Economist as Engineer