OREANDA-NEWS. May 21, 2013. The first in a series of lectures sponsored by VTB addressed to students at Russian universities by leading world economists, including three winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics.

At the end of May of this year, the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) will host a lecture by Nobel Prize winner and Professor at the Northwestern University (Illinois, USA) Dale Mortensen, and Nobel Prize winner and Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Robert Aumann will deliver a lecture at the Higher School of Management of the St Petersburg State University (HSM SPSU).

The economists will share their views on the current economic situation and give their forecasts. They will also answer students’ questions.

Subsequently VTB will continue sponsoring lectures by prominent world economists at Russian institutions of higher learning. Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, Bradford DeLong and Thomas Sargent, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and Professor of Economics at New York University are scheduled to talk to students in September.