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
| Paul Milgrom 2008 |
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2009 Lecture and Conference |
| Lars Peter Hansen 2006 |
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2007 Lecture and Conference |
| Ariel Rubinstein 2004 |
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2005 Lecture and Conference |
| Edward C. Prescott 2002 Nobel Laureate 2004 |
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| Daniel McFadden 2000 Nobel Laureate 2000 |
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| Robert Aumann 1998 Nobel Laureate 2005 |
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| Thomas Sargent 1996 Nobel Laureate 2011 |
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| Peter Diamond 1994 Nobel Laureate 2010 |
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Announcements
Nemmers Conference May 11-12
Econometric Society North American Summer Meeting
Events
Economics Junior Recruiting Seminar
February 10, 2012 • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Economics Junior Recruiting Seminar
February 13, 2012 • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM









