Faculty 

Barcelona GSE Opening Ceremony 2010-11

 

When: Monday, November 22 at 12.00h
Where: CaixaForum (view map)

RSVP: events@barcelonagse.eu or call +34 93 542 12 22

 

The inaugural lecture,"Economic Policy Making: Lessons from Recent U.S. Experience" will be delivered by Prof. Alan Krueger (Princeton University).

 

The ceremony will be attended by the Catalan Minister of Economy and Finance, Prof. Antoni Castells; the Secretary for Economy of the Spanish Government, Prof. José M. Campa; and the Vice President of the European Commission and Honorary President of the Barcelona GSE, Mr. Joaquín Almunia.

 

About Prof. Alan Krueger

Alan Krueger is Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). On March 7, 2009, he was nominated by Barack Obama to be United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for economic policy. He is among the 50 highest ranked economists in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc.

 

From 1994-95 Prof. Krueger served as Chief Economist at the United States Department of Labor. He is known for developing and applying the method of natural experiments to study the effect of education on earnings, the minimum wage on employment, and other issues. His recent book, What Makes a Terrorist: Economics and the Roots of Terrorism, analyzed the causes of terrorism from an economic perspective.