Nancy L. Schwartz Memorial Lecture

The Nancy L. Schwartz Memorial Lecture is a series of public lectures held every year by the Kellogg Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences of Northwestern University.^[1][2][3]

Nancy Lou Schwartz was the Morrison Professor of Decision Sciences. She was also the Kellogg School's first female faculty member appointed to an endowed chair. Schwartz became a part of Kellogg in 1970, chaired MEDS as well as served as director of the school's doctoral program until her death in 1981.^[1] To date, sixteen out of the thirty-four speakers held or have gone on to win a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Lectures

1983 - 1989

• Reinhard Selten (Nobel Laureate 1994). Evolution, Learning, and Economic Behavior.
• Truman F. Bewley. Knightian Uncertainty.
• Robert E. Lucas, Jr.,(Nobel Laureate 1995). On the Mechanics of Economic Development.
• Robert J. Aumann (Nobel Laureate 2005). Cooperation, Rationality, and Bounded Reality.
• Menachem E. Yaari. On the Role of 'Dutch Books' in the Theory of Choice Under Risk.
• Andreu Mas-Colell. On the Theory of Perfect Competition.
• Hugo Sonnenschein. The Economics of Incentives: An Introductory Account.

1990 - 1999

• Joseph E. Stiglitz. (Nobel Laureate 2001). The Theory of Bankruptcy in Modern Capitalism.
• Ariel Rubinstein. Topics in Language and Economics.
• David M. Kreps. Anticipated Utility and Dynamic Choice.
• Nancy L. Stokey. Shirtsleeves to Shirtsleeves: The Economics of Social Mobility.
• Roy Radner. Economic Survival.
• Robert B. Wilson (Nobel Laureate 2020). Negotiation With Private Information: Litigation and Strikes.
• Peter A. Diamond (Nobel Laureate 2010). Issues in Social Insurance.
• Kenneth J. Arrow (Nobel Laureate 1972). Information and Returns to Scale.
• Gary S. Becker (Nobel Laureate 1992). On Habits, Addictions, and Traditions.
• Vernon L. Smith (Nobel Laureate 2002). Experimental Economics: Behavioral Lessons for Theory and Microeconomic Policy.

2000 - 2009

• Drew Fudenberg. Learning in Games.
• Roger B. Myerson (Nobel Laureate 2007). On the Foundations of Social Institutions.
• Matthew Jackson. Social Structure, Segregation, and Economic Behavior.
• Robert C. Merton. (Nobel Laureate 1997). How to Pursue Both Comparative Advantage and Efficient Diversification of Risk: An Application of Derivative Securities.
• John O. Ledyard. Information Markets.
• Daniel Kahneman (Nobel Laureate 2002). Psychology and Behavioral Economics.
• Bengt R. Holmstrom (Nobel Laureate 2016). Corporate Governance.
• Eric R. Maskin (Nobel Laureate 2007). How to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions: An Application of Auction Theory.
• David Baron. Private Politics.
• Oliver Hart (Nobel Laureate 2016). Financial Contracting.

2010 - 2019

• Vincent P. Crawford. Puffery, Trickery, Rendezvous, and Reassurance: Nonequilibrium Models of Strategic Communication.
• Paul Milgrom (Nobel Laureate 2020). Prices and Auctions in Markets with Complex Constraints.
• Ehud Kalai. Chaos, Learning and Stability in Big Games.
• Colin Camerer. When Game Theory Predicts Surprisingly Well, and Why.
• Hal Varian. Predicting the Present with Search Engine Data.
• Jean Tirole (Nobel Laureate 2014). Laws and Norms.
• K. Daron Acemoglu. Why Nations Fail.
• Al Roth (Nobel Laureate 2012). Market Design.
• Susan Athey. Marketplaces, Intermediaries, and Product Quality.^[4]
• Stephen Morris. Taking Incomplete Information Seriously: The Misunderstanding of John Harsanyi.^[5]

2020-present

• Avinash Dixit. Community-Based Organizations to Combat Corruption.^[6] (postponed)

References

1. "Home - Nancy L. Schwartz Memorial Lecture - Kellogg School of Management". Retrieved 20 December 2016.
2. "Lectures A Memorial To Early Kellogg Leader". Chicago Tribune. August 1999. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
3. "The practical power of game theory - Kellogg School of Management". Retrieved 20 December 2016.
4. ""Marketplaces, Intermediaries, and Product Quality"". Kellogg School of Management. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
5. "Stephen Morris | Nancy L. Schwartz Memorial Lecture | Kellogg School of Management". www.kellogg.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-12.
6. "Avinash Dixit | Nancy L. Schwartz Memorial Lecture | Kellogg School of Management". www.kellogg.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-12.