Richard W. Blundell

Sir Richard William Blundell , CBE FBA (born May 1, 1952 in Shoreham-by-Sea ) is a British economist and professor of political economy at University College London . His field of research is econometrics .

Life

Blundell has held the Chair of Political Economy at University College London since 1984 and has been Research Director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies since 1986 . In 2006 the economist was chairman of the Econometric Society and in 2008 he was president of the Society of Labor Economics. Thomson Reuters has been one of the favorites for a Nobel Prize in Economics since 2015 .

Honors

• 1997: Fellow of the British Academy
• 2000: Frisch Medal of the Econometric Society (with Alan S. Duncan and Costas Meghir )
• 2002: Admission to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2011: Honorary doctorate from the University of Mannheim
• 2012: IZA Prize in Labor Economics
• 2014: Elevation to the knighthood ( Knight Bachelor )
• 2014: BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
• 2014: Member of the Academia Europaea
• 2016: Nemmers Prize for Economics
• 2019: foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 2020: Jacob Mincer Prize

Fonts (selection)

• The Determinants and Effects of Work Related Training in Britain . Institute for Fiscal Studies, London 1996, ISBN 1-873357-56-7 (together with Lorraine Dearden and Costas Meghir).
• Seeking A Premier Economy. The Economic Effects of British Economic Reforms, 1980-2000 (National Bureau of Economic Research - Comparative Labor Markets Series, NBER-CLM). University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill. 2004, ISBN 0-226-09284-4 (with David E. Card).

Web links

• Literature by and about Richard W. Blundell in the catalog of the German National Library
• Richard W. Blundell in the catalog of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics (ZBW)
• university appearance
• IFS
• Richard Blundell at the Institute for the Future of Work
• Entry on IDEAS

Individual evidence

1. ↑ biography (PDF; 20 kB).
2. ↑ Announcing the 2015 Citation Laureates , at Thomson Reuters.
3. ^ Fellows: Sir Richard Blundell. British Academy, accessed October 27, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Awards. econometricsociety.org , accessed on August 16, 2015 . 
5. ↑ Press release of the University of Mannheim (accessed on March 8, 2012) ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/269031/New-Year-Honours-2014-PM-list.pdf