Professor Thomas Sargent
On Friday 3 October 2008 at the EUI Degree Conferring Ceremony, Professor Thomas Sargent, the Berkley Professor of Economics and Business at New York University, was conferred the Honoris Causa degree along with Professor John H. Jackson, Professor of Law and Director of the Institute of International Economic Law at Georgetown University, Washington DC, and Prof. Dr. Fritz W. Scharpf, Emeritus Director, Max Planck Institute for the Studies of Societies.
The Laudatio for Professor Sargent was presented by Ramon Marimon, Director of the Max Weber Programme, Professor in the Economics Department. Thomas Sargent is known as "one of the leaders of the rational expectations revolution" and the author of numerous path-breaking papers. Working with Neil Wallace, Sargent developed the saddle path stability characterization of the rational expectations equilibrium and also produced the Policy Ineffectiveness Proposition.
Degree Conferring Ceremony at the European University Institute and the Laudationes of the distinguished professors
Professor Tony Atkinson
On Friday 1 October 2004 at the EUI Degree Conferring Ceremony, Professor Atkinson was conferred the Honoris Causa degree.
Sir Anthony B. Atkinson contributions to the economics of inequality and public sector economics by Professor Rick van der Ploeg
Professor Jacques Drèze
Honoris Causa awarded at the EUI Conferring Ceremony of 4 October 2002
Laudatio by Professor Omar Licandro (taken from the EUI Review, Autumn 2002, part 3:3)