The annual special event at CES Every year, the Scientific Advisory Council nominates an outstanding international economist as the Distinguished CES Fellow. The award is presented in November, when the laureate gives the Munich Lectures in Economics, sharing a recent economics research topic with a broad audience.
The Munich Lectures are jointly organized with the Ifo Institute Munich and supported by Munich Re and MIT Press.
"Gender equality and development"
Tuesday, 13 November 2012, 6 p.m., LMU Munich, Grosse Aula Second and third Lecture on Wednesday, 14 November and Thursday, 15 November 2012, 6 p.m., CES, Schackstr. 4, seminar room
Alberto Alesina, Harvard University On the Choice of Institutions Lecture 1 Laudation by Torsten Persson, Stockholm University
Welcome address Hans-Werner Sinn, Director of CES Lectures video ML 2006
Bruno S. Frey, University of Zurich Happiness Research: A Revolution in Economics Laudation by Lord Richard Layard, LSE, UK Lectures video ML 2005
Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University The Marketplace of Ideas Laudation by Timothy Besley, LSE, UK
Lectures video ML 2004
James Poterba, MIT Department of Economics Government Policy and Private Retirement Saving Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3 Laudation by Pierre Pestieau, University of Liège, Belgium
Lectures video ML 2003
Nicholas H. Stern, IG Patel Chair and Director, LSE Asia Research Centre Dynamic Development: Innovation and Inclusion Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3 Laudation by Angus S. Deaton, Woodrow Wilson School, Princteon University Lectures video ML 2002
Oliver Hart, Harvard University Firms versus Markets Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3 Laudation by Martin Hellwig, University of Mannheim, Germany
Lectures video ML 2001
Peter A. Diamond, MIT, Department of Economics (Nobel laureate 2010) Taxation, Incomplete Markets and Social Security Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3 Laudation by James A. Mirrlees, University of Cambridge, UK, Nobel laureate (1996) Lectures video ML 2000
Guido Tabellini, IGIER, Bocconi University, Milan Fiscal Policy in Representative Democracies Laudation by Vito Tanzi, IMF Washington D.C. Lectures video ML 1999
Rudiger Dornbusch, MIT (deceased 2002) International Financial Crises Laudation by Stanley Fischer, IMF Washington D.C.
Lectures video ML 1998
Paul Krugman, Princeton University (Nobel laureate 2008) Making Sense of Globalization. Laudation by John Komlos, Munich
Jean Tirole, Institut d'Economie Industrielle, Université de Toulouse New Paradigms in the Regulation of Telecommunications. Laudation by Charles Wyplosz, Geneva
Anthony B. Atkinson, Nuffield College, Oxford University The Economics of Rolling Back the Welfare State. Laudation by Richard Musgrave, Santa Cruz
Avinash K. Dixit, Princeton University Economic Policies and the Political Process. Laudation by Agnar Sandmo, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration