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Grand Paris campus: lecture by economist Andrei Shleifer on 11 March
Harvard Professor Andrei Shleifer, considered as one of the world’s foremost economists, has been a visiting professor at SKEMA since 2020. He will be giving a lecture on ‘world after COVID-19’ on 11 March between 3pm and 4.30pm.
Prof. Shleifer, a Russian-American economist and winner of the American Economic Association's John Bates Clark medal, is recognised worldwide for his prolific research work, which has made him one of world's most cited researchers, and for his work on law and finance with SKEMA Prof. Florencio López-de-Silanes.
The title of his lecture will be: "Imagining the Future: Memory and Beliefs about COVID and Other New Risks"*. It will directly echo his current work at SKEMA, focusing on the French and European economic and financial recovery post-COVID-19.
Question and answer session
Before he takes the floor, Prof. Shleifer will be introduced by Florencio López-de-Silanes, SKEMA's Associate Dean for Academic Strategy. After the lecture, he will take questions from a panel of students and from the live and online audiences.
*Summary of the lecture: "Contrary to the facts, young people were at a much higher risk of dying from COVID-19 than old people. Fundamental features of human memory explain this puzzle and other beliefs about new risks in finance and other areas, like climate change".
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About Andrei Shleifer
Andrei Shleifer is an economist at Harvard University. He holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard and a PhD from MIT. He taught at Princeton and at the Chicago Booth School of Business before joining Harvard in 1991. His research interests include corporate governance, law, finance, behavioural finance and institutional economics. He has published seven books, including The Grabbing Hand (with Robert Vishny), Inefficient Markets: An Introduction to Behavioral Finance, and A Crisis of Beliefs: Investor Psychology and Financial Fragility (with Nicola Gennaioli). He has written more than one hundred articles. Andrei Shleifer is also the editor-in-chief of the Quarterly Journal of Economics and a member of the Econometric Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Finance Association.
In 1999, he won the American Economic Association's John Bates Clark medal. According to RePEc, Andrei Shleifer is the world's most cited economist.
