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Lecture on “Pricing Carbon in China, the United States, and the World Economy”

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Date:

4 Aug 2017

Time:

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

Venue:

Lecture Theatre 6,2/F Cheng Yu Tung Building,The Chinese University of Hong Kong,12 Chak Cheung Street, Shatin, N.T.

Speaker(s):

Professor Dale Jorgenson

Biography of Speaker:

Professor Dale Jorgenson received a PhD in economics from Harvard in 1959. After teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, he joined the Harvard faculty in 1969 and was appointed the Frederic Eaton Abbe Professor of Economics in 1980. He served as Chairman of the Department of Economics from 1994 to 1997. He is currently the Samuel W. Morris University Professor at Harvard University. Professor Jorgenson was elected to the Econometric Society (1964), the American Statistical Association (1965) and Fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1982). Professor Jorgenson was awarded honorary doctorates by many universities worldwide, including The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Professor Jorgenson has conducted groundbreaking research on information technology and economic growth, energy and the environment, tax policy and investment behavior, and applied econometrics. His 1963 article, “Capital Theory and Investment Behavior,” was chosen as one of the twenty most outstanding papers published in the first 100 years of the American Economic Review. He received the prestigious John Bates Clark Medal of the American Economic Association in 1971. This Medal is awarded every two years to an economist under forty for excellence in economic research. Professor Jorgenson was President of the Econometric Society in 1987 and served as President of the American Economic Association in 2000. Many of his former students are university President and professors at leading academic institutions in the United States and abroad and several occupy endowed chairs. Professor Lawrence Lau, former Vice Chancellor and President of The Chinese University of Hong Kong is one of the students of Professor Jorgenson. Professor Jorgenson’s latest book, The World Economy: Growth or Stagnation, edited with Kyoji Fukao and Marcel Timmer, was published by the Cambridge University Press in 2016.

Admission:

Free

Enquiries:

Tel: 3943 1620
Email: igef@cuhk.edu.hk