Journal Lectures

Since 1998, the Editors of The Economic Journal have invited world-class economists to give a Lecture at the annual Royal Economic Society Conference. The lectures were subsequently published in The Economic Journal and are listed below:

1998 J Heaton and D Lucas
Portfolio Choice in the Presence of Background Risk
Vol.110, p1
1999 A Case, I-F Lin and S McLanahan
How Hungry is the Self Gene
Vol.110, p781
2000 Avner Greif
Institutions and Economic Development: Reflection from the late medieval commercial revolution
2001 P Carneiro and J J Heckman
The Evidence on Credit Constraints in Post-secondary Schooling
Vol.112, p705
2002 S Ghosal and M Miller
Co-ordination Failure, Moral Hazard and Sovereign Bankruptcy Procedures
Vol. 113, p276
M Obstfeld and A M. Taylor
Sovereign Risk, Credibility, and the Gold Standard: 1870-1913 versus 1925-31
Vol. 113, p241
2003 Steven D Levitt
Why are Gambling Markets Organized so Differently than Financial Markets?
Vol. 114, p223
2004 Douglas Bernheim
Memory and Anticipation
Vol. 115, p271

2005 Ariel Rubinstein
A Skeptic's Comment on the Study of Economics
Vol. 116, pC1

2006 Narayana Kocherlakota
Household Heterogeneity and Real Exchange Rates
Vol. 117, pC1

2007 Abhijit Banerjee
Theory and Practice in Anti-corruption Policies
2008 Hyun Song Shin
Securitisation and Financial Stability
Vol. 119, p309
2009 Gilles Saint-Paul
Endogenous Indoctrination: Occupational Choices, the Evolution of Beliefs and the Political Economy of Reforms
Vol. 120, p325
2010 Carmen Reinhart
The Forgotten History of Domestic Debt
Vol 121, p319
2011 Vincent Crawford
Efficient Mechanisms for Level-k Bilateral Trading