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.{{cite web|url=http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/news-events/lecture/schwartz.aspx|title=Home - Nancy L. Schwartz Memorial Lecture - Kellogg School of Management|publisher=|accessdate=20 December 2016}}{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1999/08/01/lectures-a-memorial-to-early-kellogg-leader/|title=Lectures A Memorial To Early Kellogg Leader|website=Chicago Tribune |date=August 1999 |publisher=|access-date=20 December 2016}}{{cite web|url=https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/news_articles/2010/alvin_roth.aspx|title=The practical power of game theory - Kellogg School of Management|publisher=|accessdate=20 December 2016}}
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. 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/news-events/lecture/schwartz/speakers/2010-2019/2018.aspx|title="Marketplaces, Intermediaries, and Product Quality"|publisher=Kellogg School of Management|accessdate=20 May 2018}}
- Stephen Morris. Taking Incomplete Information Seriously: The Misunderstanding of John Harsanyi.{{Cite web|title=Stephen Morris {{!}} Nancy L. Schwartz Memorial Lecture {{!}} Kellogg School of Management|url=https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/news-events/lecture/schwartz/speakers/2010-2019/2019.aspx|access-date=2021-03-12|website=www.kellogg.northwestern.edu}}
= 2020-present =
- Avinash Dixit. Community-Based Organizations to Combat Corruption.{{Cite web|title=Avinash Dixit {{!}} Nancy L. Schwartz Memorial Lecture {{!}} Kellogg School of Management|url=https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/news-events/lecture/schwartz/speakers/2020-2029/2020.aspx|access-date=2021-03-12|website=www.kellogg.northwestern.edu}} (postponed)
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