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Zvi Griliches Memorial Lectures
In 2001, in the memory of Zvi Griliches, the International Advisory Board of NES, with the full approval of the entire NES community, decided to establish an annual series of lectures in economics. “The Zvi Griliches Memorial Lectures” are presented by leading scholars and open to economic community in Russia and to the general public.
Zvi Griliches was one of the founders of the New Economic School in Moscow and was one of its main academic architects. He served as a member of the International Advisory Board of NES from its inception until his death. During this period, Zvi has often visited NES. He taught econometrics at NES and helped to shape the program in econometrics.
LECTURES:
2020
A series of lectures by James Robinson, Professor of the Harris School of Public Policy (University of Chicago)
Comparative Constitutional Design
Lecture 1: The Liberal-Democratic Constitutional Tradition and its problems
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Lecture 2: The Islamic Tradition
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Lecture 3: Comparative Constitutionalism
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2018
A series of lectures by Philippe Aghion, Professor, Harvard University
Lecture 1: The Schumpeterian Paradigm
Lecture 2: Secular Stagnation and Growth Measurement
Lecture 3: Innovation-Led Growth Inequality, and Social Mobility
2012
A series of lectures by Ariel Rubinstein, Professor of Economics, Tel-Aviv University
Models of Bounded Rationality: Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives
Lecture 1: My Journey through the Wonderland of Neuroeconomics: the Brain Studies Approach to Bounded Rationality
Lecture 2: The Colonel Blotto Game: an Experimental Economics Approach to Bounded Rationality
Lecture 3: A Model of Persuasion: a Theoretical Approach to Bounded Rationality
2011
A series of lectures by Torsten Persson, Professor of Economics, Stockholm University
Pillars of Prosperity: The Political Economics of Development Clusters
Lecture 1: Overview and the Core Model of Fiscal and Legal Capacity
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Lecture 2: Political Violence and Putting Pieces Together
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Lecture 3: Development Assistance, Political Reform, and Lessons Learned
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2010
A series of lectures by Eric Maskin, Professor of Princeton University, Winner of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2007
Lecture 1: How Should We Elect Presidents?
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Lecture 2: How Accountable should Public Officials Be?
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Lecture 3: How Does Political Pandering Affect Deficits?
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2009
A series of lectures by Elhanan Helpman, Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade and Director of Graduate Studies, Harvard University
New Developments in International Trade Theory
Lecture 1: Overview of Recent Heterogeneity Issues in International Trade – Motivations and Results
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Lecture 2: Contractual Frictions and FDI
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Lecture 3: International Trade: Labor Market Consequences in Heterogeneous Setting
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2008
A series of lectures by Avinash Dixit, Professor of Economics, Princeton University
On the Design and Reform of Institutions of Economic Governance
Lecture 1: General Concepts and Empirical Studies
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Lecture 2: Some Formal Models
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Lecture 3: Formal Models Cont'd
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2006
A series of lectures by Bengt Holmstrom, Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Demand and Supply of Liquidity
Lecture 1: Credit Rationing and the Demand for Liquidity
Lecture 2: Asset Pricing and the Supply of Liquidity
Lecture 3: Local versus Global Liquidity
2006
A series of lectures by Kenneth Rogoff, Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Lecture 1: Oil and the Global Economy
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Lecture 2: Exchange Rate and Commodity Price Volatility and Productivity Growth: The Role of Financial Development
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2005
A series of lectures by Alberto Alesina, Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University
Lecture 1: The Size of Countries: Economic Integration and Political Disintegration.
Lecture 2: The Choice of Electoral Rules
Lecture 3: Preferences for Redistribution: US versus Europe
2003
A series of lectures by Roger Myerson, Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
Lecture 1: Justice, Institutions, and Multiple Equilibria
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Lecture 2: Leadership, Trust, and Constitutions
Lecture 3: Bipolar Multicandidate Elections with Corruption
2002
Lecture by Ariel Pakes, Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Lecture: Recent Developments in Applied Industrial Organization
2001
A series of lectures by Olivier Blanchard, Chair of the Economics Department of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lecture 1: An Overview, Shocks, Institutions, Interactions
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Lecture 2: Which shocks? Which institutions? Which interactions?
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Lecture 3: Labor market institutions, sclerosis, and shocks
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