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TORONTO
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Professor Elhanan Helpman, one of the world's leading economists, will speak on the "Productivity of Nations" in the third lecture in the Rotman School's Great Minds for Great Business lecture series. Prof. Helpman's lecture will address the latest thinking on links between productivity and long-term growth among leading industrial nations.
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Monday, November 29
4:30 pm (with reception to follow)
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Where? |
Fleck Atrium
Joseph L. Rotman School of Management
105 St. George Street
Toronto
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"We are pleased to welcome one of the world's great thinkers to Toronto and the Rotman community," says Rotman School Dean Roger Martin, who will host the lecture. "Elhanan Helpman's presentation is extremely timely as Canada is currently struggling with issues of improving Canadian productivity and competitiveness in the global economy."
The Rotman School initiated the Great Minds for Great Business lecture series in 1998, as a way to bring eminent thinkers, scholars and business leaders to the Rotman School of Management to stimulate serious discussion of today's important issues in management and business. The first Great Minds for Great Business Lecturer was Professor Emeritus Myron Scholes of Stanford University, the co-winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in the field of derivatives. Professor Douglass North of Washington University, the co-winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Economic Science for his work in economic history, joined us in October 1998.
Elhanan Helpman is a professor of economics at Harvard University, the Archie Sherman Professor of International Economic Relations at Tel Aviv University, Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and director of the Institute's Economic Growth and Policy Program. He holds a B.A. degree in Economics and Statistics from Tel Aviv University, an M.A. degree in Economics from the same institution, and a Ph.D. degree in Economics from Harvard University. He has been on the faculty at Tel Aviv University since his graduation from Harvard in 1974, and at Harvard since 1997. During his career he has been a visiting professor at Harvard and MIT and also held short visiting positions at Universities and research institutes in Europe and Japan.
Prof. Helpman's research interests have changed over time. They included economic theory, public economics, urban economics and macroeconomics. But he has always maintained an interest in international economics. His contributions include studies on the balance of payments, exchange rate regimes, stablization programs and foreign debt. More important are his studies of international trade, economic growth and political economy. He is a co-founder of the "new trade theory" and the "new growth theory," which emphasizes economies of scale and imperfect competition. Much of his work in these areas is summarized in three books: Market Structure and Foreign Trade (with Paul Krugman); Trade Policy and Market Structure (with Paul Krugman); and Innovation and Growth in the Global Economy (with Gene Grossman). His work on political economy has also been published in leading journals. Most recently his work has focused on economic growth and political economy.
Apart from pure research, Dr. Helpman has studied the Israeli economy and has been an active participant in Israeli policy debates. He was a member of the Advisory Board of the Bank of Israel, the Council for National Planning, and the National Council for Research and Development. In addition, he was a member of the board of Bank Hapoalim in Israel.
Dr. Helpman has served on the editorial boards of several scientific journals, as co-editor of the Journal of International Economics and as editor of the European Economic Review. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and was a member of its Council. He has delivered major invited lectures, such as the Frank Graham Memorial Lecture at Princeton University, the Schumpeter Lecture of the European Economic Association, the Walras-Bowley Lecture of the Econometric Society, and the Colin Clark Lecture of the Australasian Meeting of the Econometric Society. He was awarded the Mahalanobis Memorial Medal by the Indian Econometric Society. He is a member of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities, a Foreign Honourary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an Honourary Member of the American Econometric Association. He has also been President of the Israeli Economic Association and was awarded the Israeli Prize.
For more information, contact:
Ken McGuffin
Media Relations Officer
Rotman School of Management
Voice: (416) 946-3818
Fax: (416) 978-1373
E-mail: mcguffin@rotman.utoronto.ca
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