Department of Economics and Economica public lecture
Date: Thursday 12 May 2016
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Robert Pindyck
Chair: Professor Ian Martin
In the Economica-Coase Lecture 2016, Professor Pindyck, one of the world’s leading micro-economists will discuss his recent work, which focuses on economic policies relating to rare disasters, such as low probability catastrophic outcomes from climate change or nuclear terrorism.
Robert Pindyck is the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Professor in Finance and Economics at the Sloan School of Management, MIT. He
is
also
a
Research
Associate
of
the
National
Bureau
of
Economic
Research
and
a
Fellow
of
the
Econometric
Society,
and
he
has
been
a
Visiting
Professor
at
Tel‐Aviv
University,
Harvard
University,
and
Columbia
University.
Ian Martin is a Professor of Finance at the LSE. He received his PhD in Economics from Harvard University. Before moving to LSE, he was an Associate Professor of Finance at Stanford GSB. His research interests include cross-country contagion in financial markets; the valuation of long-dated assets; catastrophes; derivative pricing; and forecasting in financial markets. Professor Martin is the Programme Director of the LSE's MSc in Finance and Economics, and is an editor of Economica.
The Department of Economics at LSE (@LSEEcon) is one of the largest economics departments in the world. Its size ensures that all areas of economics are strongly represented in both research and teaching.
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