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Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics

Lecture and Conference

In 1994, bequests to Northwestern University from the late Erwin Esser Nemmers, a former member of the Northwestern University faculty, and his brother, the late Frederic E. Nemmers, led to the establishment of four endowed professorships in the Kellogg School of Management, and biennial prizes in economics, mathematics, and more recently musical composition. The Nemmers family ran a church music publishing house in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The prize in economics is named in honor of the Nemmers' father.

The Nemmers' hoped that their prizes would carry with them the prestige attached to the Nobel prizes. They are designed to recognize "work of lasting significance" and in particular, recognize "major contributions to new knowledge or the development of significant new modes of analysis." The Nemmers prize is awarded every two years.

2010 Nemmers Prize Winner

Elhanan Helpman
Harvard University

Lecture
"Income Distribution and Foreign Trade and Investment"
Thursday, April 28, 2011
3:30pm
Free and Open to the Public
McCormick Auditorium, James L. Allen Center

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Conference
"The Political Economy of Growth and Development"
Friday and Saturday, May 11-12, 2012
Free Registration Required
McCormick Auditorium, James L. Allen Center

The conference will feature twelve papers, mostly by young scholars, as well as keynote lectures by Alberto Alesina (Harvard University) and Fabrizio Zillibotti (University of Zurich). The conference wll be concurrent with the visit of the current holder of the Nemmers Prize, Elhanan Helpman, to campus in the Spring Quarter of 2012. Details of the conference will be posted shortly.

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Previous Nemmers Prize Winners