MFM team wins RCC award for Code on Solving Nonlinear Macroeconomic Models
On May 8, 2o18 the Macro Financial Modeling (MFM) project team presented a poster at a symposium called Mindbytes organized by University of Chicago's Research Computer Center (RCC). On behalf of the...
Joint Program Student Michael Barnett Receives Stevanovich Fellowship Award
One of the aims of the Macro Financial Research Initiative (MFRI) is to support graduate student research including students in the Joint Program in Financial Economics at the University of Chicago...
Financial Stability, the Global Economy, and Monetary Policy: A Discussion with Charles Evans and Lars Peter Hansen
On April 7, 2018, I had the opportunity to interview Charles Evans, the President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago since September 2017 for a special panel discussion during the...
Discussion Section with Kevin Murphy featuring Lars Peter Hansen
Discussion Section with Kevin Murphy: Featuring Lars Peter Hansen View the original feature story on the Becker Friedman Institute website. In his latest Discussion Section interview,...
Hansen Explores “Curse of the Top 5”
A provocative panel at the 2017 American Economic Association meeting, featuring Professor Hansen and other senior scholars, explored the oversized role that a handful of economics journals plays in...
Hansen Joins Laureates in Signing Letter in Support of Precision Agriculture (GMOs)
Lars Peter Hansen joined more than 100 fellow Nobel laureates in signing a letter calling on Greenpeace to stop its opposition to the improvement of crops and food through biotechnology, a process...
Hansen Receives Honorary Degree from Colby College
In May 2016, Professor Lars Peter Hansen was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College. The honor was presented at Colby's 195th Commencement Ceremony on their campus in...
New Entry for Hansen in Dictionary of Economics
Esther-Mirjam Sent authored a new entry for The New Palgrave Dicitonary of Economics about the work of Lars Peter Hansen. She identifies five phases to his work: Generalised Method of Moments...
“Incertitudes,” French Documentary about Hansen Released
Professor Hansen was the subject of a video documentary by Histoires Courtes, a French series of non-fiction films featuring monologues by scientists discussing their approach to inquiry. The film...
Interview with Lars Peter Hansen
In December 2015, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis's quarterly "The Region" interviewed Professor Hansen at length. Their conversation explored his work in the generalized method of moments...
On Hubris and Humility: Conversation with Charles Plosser
Central banks can’t solve all our economic problems and should maintain a narrow scope, focusing on what the tools of monetary policy can do well, according to Charles Plosser, former president of...
Addressing the Uncertainty Behind Economic Policy: Conversation with Charles Evans
Explaining the thinking behind policy for a standing-room only audience of about 150, the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank president said analysis is followed by a key caveat: “I could be wrong about...