Event : Seminar by Nobel Laureate Professor Sir James Mirrlees

Thu 28th Apr 2005 04:00 pm to Thu 28th Apr 2005 05:30 pm

Topic: Asymmetric information and imperfect rationality

James Mirrlees is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. Since 2002, he has been Distinguished Professor-at-Large at the Chinese University of Hong Kong with a joint appointment in the Departments of Economics and Finance. From 1968-1995, Professor Mirrlees was Edgeworth Professor of Economics and Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. He has also held Visiting Professorships at the M.I.T., U.C. Berkeley and Yale.

Professor Mirrlees was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1996 (shared with William Vickrey) for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information. In 1997, he was awarded a knighthood for contributions to economic science.

From 1989 to 1992, Professor Mirrlees was President of the Royal Economic Society. He is also a Fellow of the Econometric Society (of which he is a past President) and has been an adviser to the Government of China. He has numerous publications in leading international journals in a wide range of areas of economics. His main research interests lie in the areas of optimal taxation as well as the policy implications of imperfect rationality and asymmetric information.

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