Speaker:Prof. Christopher Antoniou Pissarides, London School of Economics

Topic: Employment Dynamics and Urbanization

Time: Nov 29, 2013, 7:00pm

Location:Report Hall, EMS

About the Speaker:Christopher Antoniou Pissarides is a Cypriot economist. He currently holds the Norman Sosnow Chair in Economics at the London School of Economics. His research interests focus on several topics of macroeconomics, notably labor, economic growth, and economic policy.In 2010, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics,jointly with Peter A. Diamond and Dale Mortensen, for his contributions to the theory of search frictions and macroeconomics.

Pissarides is mostly known for his contributions to the search and matching theory for studying the interactions between the labor market and the macroeconomy. He helped develop the concept of the matching function (explaining the flows from unemployment to employment at a given moment of time), and pioneered the empirical work on its estimation.