ACE10 > Keynote Speakers

Peter A. Diamond

Peter Diamond is an Institute Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a fellow and has served as President of the Econometric Society. He is also a past president of the American Economic Association. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

He has made fundamental contributions to public economics, including government debt and capital accumulation, capital markets and risk sharing, optimal taxation, search and matching in labour markets, and social insurance. He is a former Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Theory and the Journal of Public Economics. He is particularly known for the “Diamond-Mirrlees Efficiency Theorem” and was one of the first to show that the search process can result in equilibrium unemployment. He has also extensively analyzed the U.S. social security system. He has published 12 books and over 130 papers.

Michael P. Keane

Michael Keane is a Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Technology Sydney and an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow. Prior to taking up the Federation Fellowship in 2006, he had been a Full Professor of Economics at Yale University, New York University and the University of Minnesota. He was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2005 and to the Council of the Econometric Society in 2009.

Professor Keane is a world leader in the field of choice modelling, the statistical technique that involves developing mathematical models to predict how individuals or firms make decisions in different contexts. He is also a leading expert in the fields of labour economics and human capital.

Professor Keane served as a member of the social sciences peer review panel of the U.S. National Institutes of Health from 1995-2005, and as an associate editor of Econometrica from 2002-2008. He has received a total of 10 major grants from the U.S. NIH and NSF and the Australian Research Council, and he has published roughly 75 papers in major academic journals. He is currently a co-director of the Centre for the Study of Choice at UTS.

Linda L. Tesar

Linda Tesar is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Michigan. She is currently chair of the department. She is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and has been a visitor in the Research Departments of the International Monetary Fund, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

Her research focuses on issues in international finance, with particular interests in the international transmission of business cycles and fiscal policy, the benefits of global risk-sharing, capital flows to emerging markets, international tax competition and the impact of exchange rate exposure. She has published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of International Economics, the Review of Economic Dynamics, and the Journal of Monetary Economics. She is formerly a co-editor and associate editor of the Journal of International Economics.

Carl E. Walsh

Carl Walsh is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and has been a visitor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.

His research is primarily concerned with issues in central banking and monetary policy. His recent work focuses on the role of transparency and monetary policy announcements, the role of the cost channel in the transmission of monetary policy, and the integration of modern theories of unemployment into frameworks for monetary policy analysis. His paper on “Optimal Contracts for Central Bankers” published in the American Economic Review in 1995 has been highly influential and his graduate level textbook Monetary Theory and Policy is extensively used throughout the world. He is a co-editor of the International Journal of Central Banking, an associate editor of Journal of Money, Credit and Banking and a former member of the editorial board of the American Economic Review.