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 MIT Press.
Empirical Evidence and Tax Reform: Lessons from the Mirrlees Review Tuesday, November 16, 2010, LMU, 6 p.m., Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, Grosse Aula November 17 and 18, 2010, 6 p.m., CES, Schackstr. 4, seminar room (207)
Albeto Alesina, Harvard University On the Choice of Institutions First lecture Laudation Torsten Persson, Stockholm University
Welcome address Hans-Werner Sinn, Director of CES Press Release Lecture video
Bruno S. Frey, University of Zurich Happiness Research: A Revolution in Economics Laudation by Lord Richard Layard, LSE, UK
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Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University The Marketplace of Ideas Lecture 1: The Economics of Persuasion Lecture 2: Persuasion in the Media, (paper "The Market for News") Lecture 3: Persuasion in Finance Laudation by Timothy Besley, LSE, UK
James Poterba, MIT Department of Economics Government Policy and Private Retirement Saving Lecture 1: Government Policy and Private Retirement Saving Lecture 2: Risk and Individual Choice in Accumulating Retirement Saving Lecture 3: Public Policy, Annuity Markets, and Drawing Down Retirement Wealth Laudation by Pierre Pestieau, University of Liège, Belgium
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
Oliver Hart, Harvard University Firms versus Markets Lecture 1: Firms versus Markets (pdf-file) Lecture 2: Firm Boundaries, Scope, and Delegation (pdf-file) Lecture 3: More Foundations of Incomplete Contracting (pdf-file) Laudation by Martin Hellwig, University of Mannheim, Germany
Peter A. Diamond, MIT, Department of Economics Taxation, Incomplete Markets and Social Security Lecture 1: Pension Insurance Reform in Germany (pdf-file) Lecture 2: Taxation and Social Security (pdf-file) Lecture 3: Incomplete Markets and Social Security (pdf-file) Laudation by James A. Mirrlees, University of Cambridge, UK, Nobel laureate (1996) (pdf-file)
Guido Tabellini, IGIER, Bocconi University, Milan Fiscal Policy in Representative Democracies Laudation by Vito Tanzi, IMF Washington D.C. (pdf-file)
Rudiger Dornbusch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology International Financial Crises Laudation by Stanley Fischer, IMF Washington D.C.
Paul Krugman , Princeton University Making Sense of Globalization. Laudation by John Komlos, Munich (pdf-file)
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
