Guest at UPFM
prof. dr. Peter F. Orazem
will hold a lecture entitled
Human Capital, Housing and Wealth
27. november 2024 | 10:15 | UP Faculty of Management | lecture hall 9
Izolska vrata 2, Koper
About the lecture
Assoc. Prof. Suzana Laporšek, will host prof. dr. Peter F. Orazem on Wednesday, November 27, 2024, at UP FM, where he is participating in the Fulbright Specialist Program. Prof. Orazem will deliver a lecture as part of the undergraduate course Financial Markets, Institutions, and Instruments. In the first part of the lecture, he will discuss the relationship between human capital and wealth, analyzing the role of human capital in mitigating the adverse effects of asset price shocks during recessions. In the second part, he will focus on mortgage-backed securities in the United States and their role in the 2008 financial crisis.
About the guest
Peter Orazem is University Professor Emeritus of Economics and Director of the Program for the Study of Midwest Markets and Entrepreneurship at Iowa State University. He is a 1977 graduate in economics at the University of Kansas and received his Ph.D. in economics from Yale University in 1983. In 2018 and again in 2024, he served as a Fulbright Fellow at the Univerza na Primorskem in Slovenia.
His research deals with labor markets in the United States and in developing countries with a particular interest in human capital, regional economic development, and entrepreneurship. He is coauthor of chapters in the Handbook of Development Economics and the Handbook of Agricultural Economics. He served as a member of the core team for the World Bank’s 2007 World Development Report and wrote papers for the 2008, 2012 and post2015 editions of the Copenhagen Consensus. His research has appeared in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, The Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Finance, the International Economic Review, and numerous other outlets.
