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Esmee Fairbairn Lecture with guest speaker Ali Hortaçsu
The Esmée Fairbairn Lecture has been an established part of Lancaster University’s annual programme of public lectures for over 40 years.
Date and time
Location
Lancaster University Management School
West Pavilion Lancaster LA1 4YX United KingdomAbout this event
Ali Hortaçsu
Ali Hortaçsu is the Ralph and Mary Otis Isham Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago. He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2016 and a Fellow of The Econometric Society since 2013.
He received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1996 and his Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University in 2001.
His research mainly focused on examining the efficiency of markets. Generally, he utilizes detailed micro-level data from the markets he studies to estimate preference and technology parameters that rationalize individual behavior. He then uses the estimated preferences and technological parameters to construct efficient benchmarks and assess how far observed market outcomes are from efficiency. This comparison also motivates discussions of how market rules can be altered to improve efficiency. He has applied the above framework to many market settings, including financial markets, energy markets, the Internet, and a variety of market clearing mechanisms, including auctions, matching, and costly search.
He is a Co-Editor (with Kate Ho and Alessandro Lizzeri) of the Handbook of Industrial Organization, vols. 4 and 5, and has been a Co-Editor in the Journal of Political Economy, RAND Journal of Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, and an Associate Editor in the American Economic Review, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Industrial Economics, and a member of the editorial board in the Quantitative Marketing and Economics. He also served as a member of the NSF Economics panel.
Location
Lancaster University Management School, West Pavilion, Lecture Theatre 18
Programme
5:30 pm – Registration
6:00 pm – Lecture: Ali Hortacsu
8:00 pm – Event Close
The Foundation was established by Ian Fairbairn in 1961 in memory of his wife Esmée, who had played a prominent role in developing the Women's Royal Voluntary Service during the Second World War as well as helping to create the Citizens Advice Bureaux. She was tragically killed in an air raid towards the end of the Second World War.
The Esmee Fairbairn Lecture is an annual event run by the Economics Department and open to staff, students and the general public including local High Schools.
For further information please contact, Dakshina De Silva
d.desilva@lancaster.ac.uk