The Department of Economics is pleased to announce that Professor Elhanan Helpman will be presenting a seminar at the University of Glasgow on Wednesday 11 February 2009. 

Professor Helpman, Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade at Harvard University, www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/helpman will be presenting his paper on ‘Inequality and Unemployment in a Global Economy'. 

He has made significant and important contributions to a number of different areas in economics and is best known for his work in International Trade, particularly the so-called New Trade Theory which he co-authored with Paul Krugman, last year’s Nobel laureate. 

The lecture starts at 4pm in the Main Lecture Theatre of the Sir Charles Wilson Building, University Avenue.

Further information:
www.gla.ac.uk/economics/sire/newsandevents/seminars/


First published: 6 February 2009