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Nobel Laureate Finn Kydland Takes Part in Distinguished Speaker Series – Video Now Available to View

4 May, 2015

As part of CERGE-EI’s Distinguished Speakers Series, with generous support from Tatra Banka foundation, Nobel Laureate Finn Kydland visited CERGE-EI on Thursday 23 April, 2015. He met with several faculty members and students to discuss their research and in the afternoon gave a public lecture "Innovation  and Capital Formation in Today’s Policy Environment". You can now watch a video of the full lecture. SlidesLive version is also available.  

The same lecture was also given in Bratislava on 20 April, 2015 and has been live streamed to several universities.

Professor  Kydland is the Henley Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, founder of  the Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance, a Research Associate for the Federal Reserve Banks of Dallas, Cleveland and St. Louis, and a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin.

He was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Economics. The prize, shared with Edward C. Prescott of Arizona State University, was for "contribution to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles."