Franco Modigliani – Robert Solow – I.S.E.O. Temporary Chair in Economic Sciences 2025

For the second time, the I.S.E.O. Institute re-established the “Franco Modigliani – Robert Solow – I.S.E.O. Temporary Chair in Economic Sciences” at the University of the 2nd edition featured prof. ROBERT MERTON, Nobel Laureate in Economics 1997, professor at Mit and Emeritus professor at Harvard.

The temporary chair provides “the annual assignment of the qualification of Franco Modigliani – Robert Solow – I.S.E.O. Professor to an economist awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics or to an economist of international renown”, states the resolution of the Academic Senate.

Thanks to the precious and long-lasting partnership between the I.S.E.O. Institute and the University of Brescia, every year the faculty of Economics of the University of Brescia will feature – even if for a short time – a Nobel Prize for Economics as visiting professor (something never happened before in the University of Brescia): the lectures are addressed to students enrolled in the master’s degree and PhD.

“We are really proud – explains Riccardo Venchiarutti, who became president of the I.S.E.O. Institute after the death of Robert Solow – to be able to offer students from Brescia the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to attend lectures held by Nobel Prize winners for Economics: and we are even happier knowing that the newly established chair bears the name of our founder Franco Modigliani and our past president Robert Solow, two world-wide important economists but, even more, two extraordinary men to whom the world owes a lot”.

The chair was activated in 2024, in June: the first Nobel Prize selected by the two bodies was Robert Engle, Nobel Laureate in Economics 2003. His course was titled “Climate Finance”.

The 2025 course was called “Longevity Finance”, it consisted of a few classes, exclusively reserved for Master’s and PhD students at the University of Brescia.

Lectures took place during the first week of June, concluding in the public conference “Futura Colloquia” on June 6th.