IED Distinguished Visitors – Spring 2016 Prof. Richard Blundell, UCL April 4-8, 2016
It is with great pleasure to inform you of our Distinguished Visitor, Richard Blundell, who will be visiting us from Monday, April 4th through Friday, April 8th, 2016. Richard Blundell is the David Ricardo Chair of Political Economy at University College London. A graduate of the University of Bristol and London School of Economics, he was appointed Research Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) in 1986. He is now Director of the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy. He has held visiting professor positions at UBC, MIT, and Berkeley. He holds Honorary Doctorates from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland; the Norwegian School of Economics, NHH, Bergen, Norway; and the University of Mannheim, Mannheim. He was knighted in the 2014 Queen’s New Years Honours list for services to Economics and Social Science.
In 1995 he was awarded the Yrjö Jahnsson Prize for his work in microeconometrics and the analysis of labour supply, welfare reform and consumer behaviour. In 2000 he was awarded the Econometric Society Frisch Prize Medal for his paper “Estimating Labour Supply Responses using Tax Reforms.” In 2008 he was the recipient of the Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize given to a high level economist whose research combines both the theoretical and applied aspects of economics. He was awarded the CESifo Prize in 2010 and the Sandmo Prize in 2011. He was recipient of the IZA Prize in Labor Economics in 2012. He was awarded the 2015 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Prize in Economics.
In 2004 he was President of the European Economics Association. He was President of the Econometric Society in 2006. He was President of the Society of Labor Economics in 2010. He was President of the Royal Economic Society 2011-2013. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, Fellow of the British Academy, Honorary Member of the American Economic Association and Honorary Member American Academy of Arts and Science.
His research covers the empirical microeconomic study of consumer, savings, and labour supply behaviour. He has studied the impact of taxation on labour supply. He has developed new microeconometric tools for the study of dynamic panel data models and the nonparametric analysis of individual decisions.
He has worked on a number of high profile policy reports in his position as Research Director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and has been very influential in the economic policy debate in the UK, particularly on issues of personal tax reform, pension reform and the analysis of inequality. He was an editor and author of the Mirrlees Review of Tax Reform which reported its findings in 2011 with high profile presentations at the IMF, the EU and the UK Treasury.
His published papers have appeared in Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Journal of Econometrics, and other top journals. He has been on the editorial board of many academic journals and was co-editor of Econometrica from 1997-2001 and co-editor of the Journal of Econometrics from 1992 to 1997. He is currently an Editorial Board member of Annual Reviews.
SCHEDULE
Richard Blundell will give one seminar and two lectures:
Lecture 1: "Income and Consumption Dynamics: Partial Insurance and Inequality" Monday, April 4th 11AM-12:30PM Room 546
Lecture 2: "How Revealing is Revealed Preference" Wednesday, April 6th 11AM-12:30PM Room 546
Seminar: "Female Labour Supply, Human Capital and Tax Reform" Thursday April 7th 2-3:30PM Room 315
OFFICE HOURS
To schedule office hours, please email Gillian Gurish at [email protected] with your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choices. You can view the open times on the calendar at http://www.bu.edu/econ/research/lectures/distinguished-visitors/. Every attempt will be made to give you your desired time; however, it will be based on a first- come-first-serve basis. The following are the dates and times to request a 30-minute meeting:
Tuesday, April 5th from 2pm to 5:30pm Wednesday, April 6th from 2pm to 5:30pm
Please note that our Distinguished Visitor Guest Office is Room 417.
The Department and the IED hope you will enjoy Richard Blundell’s visit and take the opportunity to attend his scheduled seminar and lectures. If you have any questions, please contact Eleanor Langdon at the IED or visit her office located at 264 Bay State Rd, Room 512.