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February 17, 2025
Susan Collins, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston will deliver the Razin Policy Lecture on April 10, 2025.
The Georgetown Center for Economic Research and the GU Economics Department are pleased to announce Susan Collins, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston will deliver the 2025 Razin Lecture. The keynote lecture will take place on Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 4:00 p.m. in the Copley Formal Lounge at Georgetown University.
Susan M. Collins is president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, which is part of the U.S. central bank. She is a participant on the Federal Open Market Committee, which sets U.S. monetary policy. Since taking office in July 2022, Collins oversees all of the bank’s activities – including economic research and analysis; banking supervision and financial stability efforts; community economic development activities; and a wide range of payments, technology, and finance initiatives.
Collins is an international macroeconomist with a lifelong interest in policy and its impact on living standards. She has published widely and served as a provost, dean, professor, research scholar, and board member at a variety of universities and organizations, including the University of Michigan, the Brookings Institution, Georgetown and Harvard Universities. Collins earned her Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her undergraduate degree at Harvard.
More on the Razin Prize and Policy Lecture, its background, and history can be found here. The recording of the event and past Razin Lectures can be accessed by visiting our Georgetown University Economics YouTube Channel.
January 14, 2025
2024-2025 Distinguished Visitor Series
We are pleased to announce the following three prominent scholars will be the GCER Distinguished Visitors for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Christian B. Hansen is the Wallace W. Booth Professor of Econometrics and Statistics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Prof. Hansen is the current academic coordinator for the Booth Executive MBA program. He is also co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy – Microeconomics. Prof. Hansen studies applied and theoretical econometrics. His research has chiefly been in the areas of the use of high-dimensional statistical methods in economic applications, estimation of panel data models, inference using clustered standard errors, quantile regression, and weak instruments. His most recent research has looked at the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence as in input to estimation of causal and policy effects.
Chris will visit the economics department the week of March 10-14, 2025.
Kevin Lang is a professor of economics at Boston University. He is also an elected Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He is the author of Poverty and Discrimination and over 100 papers and articles on topics in Labor Economics. He was awarded the Laurence A. Bloom Professorship in Economics. Kevin Lang will visit the economics department the week of March 17-21, 2025.
Vincent Sterk is a Professor at the Economics Department of University College London, specializing in macroeconomics. He is currently a joint Managing Editor of the Review of Economic Studies, an academic advisor for the Bank of England, and an adjunct professor at NHH Bergen.
Vincent will visit the economics department the week of April 07-11, 2025.