Manchester Economics Seminars (MES)
The aim of MES is to provide a forum for distinguished scholars to talk about their research to a general economics, rather than a specialist, audience.
2011-2012
November 16, 2011
Venue: Room G7, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building
Time: 2.30pm - 4pm
Professor Barry McCormick, Oxford University
Title: "NHS Emergency Care: Can Economics Inform Policy?"
Bio
Barry McCormick is the Director of the Centre for Health Service Economics and Organisation at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. He has previously served as Chief Economist and Director of Analysis in the Department of Health 2002-2010, and was an academic consultant to the Treasury from 2001-2002. Prior to working at the Department of Health, Barry worked in academia and was Professor of Economics at the University of Southampton from 1991-2002. His current research focus is on health economics; he has also published widely on issues in labour economics and migration. He served on the Editorial Board of Economic Journal Conference Volume from 1992-1995, was the founding editor of the Economic Review, 1983-92, and was a Council/Executive Committee member of the Royal Economic Society for 2004-9. In 2010, he was awarded a CBE.
December 7, 2011 CANCELLED
Venue: Room G7, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building
Time: 2.30pm - 4pm
Dr Robert Chote, Office for Budget Responsibility
Title: TBA
February 22, 2012
Venue: Room G7, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building
Time: 2.30pm - 4pm
Dr Matthew Bennett, Office of Fair Trading
Title: TBA
March 7, 2012
Venue: Room G7, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building
Time: 2.30pm - 4pm
Professor Andrew Harvey, Cambridge University
Title: Dynamic Modles for Volatility and Heavy Tails
March 21, 2012
Venue: Room G7, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building
Time: 2.30pm - 4pm
Professor Joshua Aizenman, University of California at Santa Cruz
Title: TBA
April 18, 2012
Venue: Room G7, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building
Time: 2.30pm - 4pm
Professor Ray Rees, University of Munich
Title : The Mirrlees Commission Report on the UK Tax System