Haavelmo lectures

Professor Debraj Ray will hold a lecture linked to the theme of conflict and grabbing from Trygve Haavelmo's book from 1954: "A study in the theory of economic evolution". The title of the lecture is: “Beyond the Market: Economic Disparities and Conflict”.

In 2019 it is 50 years and 30 years respectively since Ragnar Frisch and Trygve Haavelmo received The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The Department of Economics and the Faculty of Social Sciences invite to a celebration.

Olivier Blanchard, Professor emeritus at MIT and former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, will hold a lecture on the natural rate unemployment hypothesis, in honour of Trygve Haavelmo.

Professor Sir David F. Hendry from Nuffield College at Oxford University will present "Deciding between Alternative Approaches in Macroeconomics", in honour of Trygve Haavelmo.

Nobel Laureate James J. Heckman gave the lecture "Causal Analysis After Haavelmo", in honour of Trygve Haavelmo.