Richard Musgrave Visiting Professorship 2011: Timothy Besley
The 2011 award winner is Professor Timothy Besley, Director of the Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD) and Kuwait Professor of Economics and Political Science Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
From September 2006 to August 2009, he served as an external member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee. He is a CESifo Research Fellow, a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and is a program member of the Institutions, Organizations and Growth Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR).
He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the British Academy, and the European Economics Association. He is also a foreign honorary member of the American Economic Association. Professor Besley is a past co-editor of the American Economic Review, and a 2005 winner of the Yrjö Jahnsson Award of the European Economics Association. His research, which mostly has a policy focus, is mainly in the areas of Development Economics, Public Economics and Political Economy.
On 8 April 2011 he delivered the third Richard Musgrave Lecture on the topic "Some Principles of Public Organization".
Hans-Werner Sinn, Timothy Besley and Robin Boadway
Robin Boadway and Timothy Besley
Timothy Besley and Robin Boadway
