X Rodolfo Debenedetti Lecture – Edward Lazear

Edward Lazear, Jack Steele Parker Professor of Human Resources Management and Economics at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, will hold the X Ing. Rodolfo Debenedetti Lecture about “Demographics and Business Formation”.

Edward Lazear is a labor economist who is a founder of a field known as personnel economics. His research centers on employee incentives, promotions, compensation, and productivity in firms. He also has devoted study to culture and language, with an emphasis on explaining the rise in multiculturalism in the United States. Recent work includes an already widely known theory of educational production. His current research is on entrepreneurship, leadership, and its relation to personnel economics.