The Vancouver School of Economics is pleased to host Economics Professor Enrico Moretti for a seminar on “City Growth and Aggregate Growth”. The event is free, and open to UBC students, faculty, staff, alumni, and the general public. Registration for the event is not required.
The seminar will be in Room 105 of the Lasserre Building, located on Main Mall between the Old Administration Building and the Belkin Art Gallery.
Enrico Moretti is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley where he holds the Michael Peevey and Donald Vial Career Development Chair in Labor Economics. He is the Director of the Urbanization Program at the International Growth Centre (London School of Economics) and Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. He is also Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge) and Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London) and the Institute for the Study of Labor (Bonn). His research interests include Labor Economics, Urban Economics and Regional Economics.