FOR THE MEDIA
For interviews with Lars Peter Hansen and for other media inquiries, please contact:
Diana Petrova
MFR Program Executive Director
Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics
University of Chicago
1126 E. 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Office: 773-702-3908
dpetrova@uchicago.edu
RESOURCES
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Proposed Biography
Lars Peter Hansen is the David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor and the Director of BFI’s Macro Finance Research (MFR) Program at the University of Chicago. He is the leading expert in economic dynamics who works at the forefront of economic thinking and modeling, drawing approaches from macroeconomics, finance, and statistics. Hansen has made fundamental advances in our understanding of how economic agents cope with changing and risky environments. He is the recipient of the 2013 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.