https://www.carloalberto.org/event/inauguration-ceremony-academic-year-2022-2023/
Welcome Addresses
Stefano Geuna, Rector, University of Turin
Giorgio Barba Navaretti, President, Fondazione Collegio Carlo Alberto
Inaugural Lecture “Economic Research and Public Policy: Immigration and Minimum Wages”
DAVID CARD University of California, Berkeley, Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, 2021
Introduction by Elena Esposito, Affiliate, Fondazione Collegio Carlo Alberto
David Card is the Class of 1950 Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of the Center for Labor Economics and the Econometric Lab.
From 2012 to 2017 he was Director of the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Card’s research interests include wage determination, education, inequality, immigration, and gender-related issues. He co-authored the 1995 book Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage, co-edited eight additional titles, and has published over 100 journal articles and book chapters. In 1995, he received the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark Prize, which is awarded to the economist under 40 whose work is judged to have made the most significant contribution to the field. He was President of the AEA in 2021 and co-recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2021.
