Each year, the International Economics Section (IES) at Princeton University invites a member of the international economics community to deliver the prestigious Frank D. Graham Memorial Lecture. This year, on April 9, Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, the Edward G. and Nancy S. Jordan Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley, delivered the 73rd annual Graham Lecture titled “Carbon Taxes in the Global Economy: A Quantitative Analysis.”

About Rodríguez-Clare

Rodríguez-Clare is a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, director of the Trade Research Programme at the International Growth Centre, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society.

He received his Ph.D. at Stanford University in 1993. He was Associate Professor of Business Economics at the University of Chicago before moving to Costa Rica to serve as Chairman of the Council of Presidential Advisors from 1998 to 2002. He was a Visiting Professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government in 2002 and the M.I.T. Department of Economics in 2005, and a Senior Research Economist at the Research Department of the Inter-American Development Bank from 2002 to 2005. In 2005, he became a professor of economics at Pennsylvania State University, where he stayed until 2011, the year he joined the Berkeley faculty.

About the Graham Lecture

Frank Graham was a Princeton professor from 1921 to 1949 and the second Walker Professor of Economics and International Finance. Professor Graham published widely on international trade and international monetary issues.

After his untimely death in 1949, the lecture was established by his friends inside and outside the department to honor his memory. It is the signature event of the International Economics Section and has been delivered over the years by a veritable Who’s Who in International Economics, including ten Nobel Laureates.

A complete list of previous Graham Lecturers can be found here.