The University of Brescia, in collaboration with the I.S.E.O. (Institute of Economic and Employment Studies) Foundation, awards the ‘Franco Modigliani - Robert Solow - Iseo Temporary Chair in Economic Sciences’ to Prof. Robert Merton, 1997 Nobel Prize winner for Economics, lecturer at the prestigious MIT in Boston and Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, one of the leading experts in finance and international markets.
Established in 2024, the chair is awarded annually to an economist awarded the Nobel Prize in economics or to an internationally renowned economist who is awarded the title of ‘Franco Modigliani-Robert Solow-I.S.E.O. Professor’.
After the inauguration of the chair's first year with Prof. Robert Engle, Nobel Laureate in Economics in 2003, the University of Brescia welcomes a Nobel Laureate among its professors again this year: Prof. Merton, in fact, will be a guest professor at the Department of Economics and Management, where he will hold a course for students of the University of Brescia enrolled in the two-year degree course and the PhD course in Economics. The course is scheduled for 3, 4 and 5 June in Room B4 of the Contrada Santa Chiara campus.