UCL Department of Economics Annual Gorman Conference and Lecture series

The annual series features a different leading economist each year and has so far included; Eric Maskin, Dan McFadden, James Heckman, Avinash Dixit, Robert M. Townsend, Ken Binmore, Robert Hall, Jerry Hausman, Thomas Sargent, Pierre-Andre Chiappori, Jean Tirole and Torsten Persson. The lectures cover a range of sub-discipline in Economics and are usually produced in book form by the Princeton University Press after the event. A list of W M Gorman’s publications can be found on the Trinity College Dublin website and more information about his life and achievements can be found on the Guardian webpage.

Previous lectures

2024/25

• Speaker: Ariel Pakes
• Lecture 1: Structural Analysis of Market Counterfactuals
• Lecture 2: Market Counterfactuals

Ariel Pakes is one of the leading authorities in the fields of industrial organization, technological change, and econometric modeling. He has served as an economic consultant and provided expert testimony in court and through depositions. In a large joint defense antitrust case, Professor Pakes testified before the judge on the reliability and appropriateness of a structural model that an opposing expert developed. In addition, he has done work for a number of consultancies, government agencies, and large corporations.

Catch up with the recordings below:

2022/23

• Speaker: Per Krusell
• Lecture 1: Economic Policy to Combat Climate Change Lecture 2: Economic Policy to Combat Climate Change

Per Krusell is the Torsten and Ragner Soderberg Chair in Economics at the Institute for International Economic Studies at the University of Stockholm. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Minnesota. He was the President of the European Economic Association in 2020 and he is currently the Secretary of the Prize Committee for The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.  Per Krusell has made fundamental contributions to many areas of macroeconomics including incomplete markets and inequality, political economy and optimal policy making in dynamic models, labor, technological change, and macroeconomic aspects of climate change.

Catch up with the recordings below:

Lecture 1: Economic Policy to Combat Climate Change

Lecture 2: Economic Policy to Combat Climate Change
 

2021/22

•    Speaker: Penny Goldberg
•    Lecture 1: Informality and Development
•    Lecture 2: Trade and Informality in the Presence of Labor Market Frictions and Regulations

Catch up with the recordings below:

Lecture 1 

Lecture 2 

2020/21

Speaker: Daron Acemoglu (MIT)
•    Lecture 1: Tasks, Automation and Labor Market
•    Lecture 2:  New Tasks, Good Automation and Bad Automation: Implications for the Future of Work
•    Jointly organised by UCL Economics, IFS-Deaton Review and CReAM.

Catch up with the recording of Lecture 1 below:

Lecture 1

2018/19

•    Speaker: Claudia Goldin (Harvard)
•    Lectures 1 & 2: A Long Road: Women’s Quest for Career and Family
•    Conference co-sponsored by CReAM and IFS (ESRC Centre) and co-organised by Uta Schönberg, Monica Costa Dias and Claudia Olivetti.  

2017/18

•    Speaker: Torsten Persson (Stockholm University)
•    Lectures 1 & 2: Political selection in Sweden: Facts, causes, and consequences

2016/17

•    Speaker: Eric Maskin (Harvard)
•    Lecture 1: How Should Members of Parliament (and Congress) be Elected?
•    Lecture 2: Elections and Strategic Voting

2015/16

•    Speaker: Jean Tirole (Toulouse School of Economics)
•    Lectures 1 & 2: Intellectual Property and Public Policy

2013/14

•    Speaker:  Pierre-Andre Chiappori
•    Lectures 1 & 2: Matching with Transfers

2012/13

• Speaker: Thomas Sargent 
• Lectures 1 & 2: Beneath and Beyond Demand and Supply Curves

2011/12

• Speaker: Jeremy Hausman
• Lectures 1 & 2: Heterogeneity, Consumer Behaviour and Welfare

2010/11

• Speaker: Robert Townsend
• Lectures 1 & 2: Evaluation of Financial Systems in Developing Countries