Distinguished Speakers
The CERGE-EI Distinguished Speaker Series hosts world-famous economists including Nobel Prize Laureates. In 2015, CERGE-EI hosted Nobel Laureates Finn E. Kydland (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Angus Deaton (Princeton University) and in 2013 Eric Maskin (Harvard University). In 2012, Christopher Sims (Princeton University) visited CERGE-EI shortly after receiving the Nobel Prize in Economics, along with Paul Milgrom (Stanford University), Philippe Aghion (Harvard University), and Alan Krueger (Princeton University).
List of distinguished speakers at CERGE-EI:
Madeleine Albright
Georgetown University
64th Secretary of State of the United States
Prof. Kenneth S. Arrow
Harvard University
1972 Nobel Prize Winner
Prof. Gary S. Becker
University of Chicago
1992 Nobel Prize Winner
Prof. Angus Deaton
Princeton University
2015 Nobel Prize WinnerConference “International Comparison of Income, Prices and Production”, 23 May, 2015
Prof. Robert F. Engle III
Princeton University
2003 Nobel Prize Winner
Prof. Edward Glaeser
Harvard University
CERGE-EI Blog Post
Lecture "Triumph of the City", 19 June, 2014
Prof. James J. Heckman
University of Chicago
2000 Nobel Prize Winner
Prof. Alan Krueger
Princeton University
Lecture "Reasons for Confidence in the US Economy", 14 May, 2012
Prof. Finn E. Kydland
University of California, Santa Barbara
2004 Nobel Prize WinnerLecture "Innovation and Capital Formation in Today's Policy Environment", 23 April, 2015
Prof. Eric Maskin
Harvard University
2007 Nobel Prize WinnerCERGE-EI Interview with Professor Eric Maskin
Lecture "Financial Crises: Why They Occur and What to Do about Them", 24 April, 2013
Prof. James A. Mirrlees
University of Cambridge
1996 Nobel Prize Winner
Prof. Robert A. Mundell
Columbia University
1999 Nobel Prize Winner
Prof. Christopher Pissarides
London School of Economics and Political Science
2010 Nobel Prize Winner
Prof. Edward C. Prescott
Arizona State University, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
2004 Nobel Prize Winner
Prof. Thomas J. Sargent
New York University
2011 Nobel Prize Winner
Prof. Christopher Sims
Princeton University
2011 Nobel Prize Winner
Prof. Vernon L. Smith
Chapman University
2002 Nobel Prize WinnerLecture on "Exchange, Specialization and Property Rights as a Discovery Process", 25 February, 2010
Prof. Robert M. Solow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
1987 Nobel Prize Winner
Prof. Joseph E. Stiglitz
Columbia University
2001 Nobel Prize Winner
Prof. Jean Tirole
Toulouse School of Economics
2014 Nobel Prize Winner
Seminar "Incentives and Prosocial Behaviour", October 27, 2003
