Departmental Seminar - Sep 2nd

Departmental Seminar - Sep 2nd

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Joseph E. Stiglitz

We are very honoured to kick off our Departmental Seminar series this Fall with Joseph E. STIGLITZ who is visiting with us this Fall.

Joseph E. STIGLITZ is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is also the co-chair of the High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress at the OECD, and the Chief Economist of the Roosevelt Institute. A recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the John Bates Clark Medal (1979), he is a former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank and a former member and chairman of the (US president's) Council of Economic Advisers. In 2000, Stiglitz founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, a think tank on international development based at Columbia University. He has been a member of the Columbia faculty since 2001 and received that university's highest academic rank (university professor) in 2003. In 2011 Stiglitz was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Known for his pioneering work on asymmetric information, Stiglitz's work focuses on income distribution, risk, corporate governance, public policy, macroeconomics and globalization. He is the author of numerous books, and several bestsellers. His most recent titles are People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent, Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited, The Euro, Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy, and The Great Divide.

Joseph E. STIGLITZ will present a paper, joint with Jungyoll YUN, and Andrew KOSENKO, at the first Departmental Seminar this year on the theme:

Characterization, Existence, and Pareto Optimality in Markets with Asymmetric Information and Endogenous and Asymmetric Disclosures: Basic Analytics of Revisiting Rothschild-Stiglitz (read paper, PDF 914 KB)

More about Joseph E. STIGLITZ and his research

The next Departmental Seminar will host Julien SAUVAGNAT on September 9th.

Date: Mon, 2019/09/02 - 14:45 - 16:15
Location: Department of Economics, 28 rue des Saints Pères - ROOM H 405

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