Friday May 17, in the Emeroteca room of the Bank of Italy, Professor Sargent (Nobel Laureate for Economics 2011) gave a seminar on his paper 'Macroeconomics After Lucas', in preparation for a conference organized by the University of Chicago in honor of the US economist Robert Lucas. Attending the event were also Deputy Governor Chiara Scotti and Head of the Department of Economics and Statistics Sergio Nicoletti Altimari.
Thomas J. Sargent is currently the William Berkley Professor of Economics at the New York University and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics 2011, jointly with Professor Christopher A. Sims, for their empirical research on cause and effect in macroeconomics.
In his speech, Professor Sargent talked about the methodological principles and quantitative tools that allowed Robert Lucas to lay the foundations for modern macroeconomic theory.