The Karl Borch Lecture is an annual lecture held by world-class scholars on a current research topic. The first Karl Borch Lecture was held by Bengt Holmström, MIT, in 2002, and the second Karl Borch Lecture was held by Oliver Hart, Harvard University, in May 2003.
The third Karl Borch Lecture was held by
Robert Wilson,
Stanford University, in October 2004, and the fourth Karl Borch Lecture was held
by Michael Brennan,
UCLA,
on Friday September 23 2005, on the topic 'Changing
attitudes towards risk'.
The fifth Karl Borch Lecture was held
by
Stephen A. Ross, MIT, on Friday May 12 2006, on the topic 'A Neoclassical Look
at Behavioral Finance: A Tale of Two Anomalies'.
The sixth Karl Borch Lecture will be held
by Hayne
Leland, University of California, Berkeley,
on Friday June 8 2007, 12.15-13.45 in Aud. E, on the topic 'The
Optimal Financial Scope of the Firm'. Please see the
press release (in Norwegian)
for further details.
Karl Borch was a professor at the School between 1963 and 1986, and is considered one of the founders of economics of uncertainty, counting 150 scientific articles in journals and conference proceedings, and three books.
The Karl Borch Lecture is sponsored by the Norwegian Foundation for Research in Economics and Business.
Last updated: 2007-06-04. Contact: Stein Fossen
