Professor B. Douglas Bernheim to give keynote addresses.

B. Douglas Bernheim will deliver keynote addresses at two international conferences held during the summer of 2010. The conferences include MBEES III (the Maastricht Behavioral and Experimental Economics Symposium) held in the Netherlands on June 11, 2010, and the CESifo Venice Summer Institute conference on "Behavioural Welfare Economics" held in Italy on July 21-22, 2010.

Professor B. Douglas Bernheim wins Economic Inquiry Best Article Award Professors B. Douglas Bernheim, Patrick Bayer (Duke University), and Karl Scholz (University of Wisconsin) have won Economic Inquiry's 2009 Best Article Award for "The Effects of Financial Education in the Workplace: Evidence from a Survey of Employers," which appeared in the October 2009 issue. The study's central finding is that both participation in and contributions to voluntary savings plans are significantly higher when employers offer retirement seminars. Professor Bayer and Professor Scholz are both former Stanford graduate students.