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...
Hansen Shares Views with Audiences in Asia
Becker Friedman Institute Research Director Lars Peter Hansen gave eight talks at six universities in four Asian cities during two weeks in June, speaking to varied audiences on uncertainty,...
On Asset Pricing, Market Efficiency and Bubbles: Hansen’s Answers
On January 4, 2014, the American Financial Association (AFA) hosted a panel discussion with 2013 Nobel laureates. AFA President Luigi Zingales, the panel moderator, posed questions about connections...
The Road to Stockholm
The 2013 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was awarded jointly to Eugene F. Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert J. Shiller for their empirical analysis of...
Big Challenges and Big Ideas As Seen By 2013 Nobel Laureates
Can the transmission of signals between neurons be sped up? Is the long economic slump the new normal, or are markets still efficient? What advice can guide policymakers trying to prevent future...
The State of Economics
Eugene Fama and Lars Hansen shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics with Robert Shiller for fundamental work that helps understand the behavior of asset prices. But the unprecedented events of 2008...
Celebrating a Nobel Prize, the Chicago Way
After the press conferences, the television interviews, the parties and champagne, the University of Chicago celebrates Nobel Prizes Chicago-style: we examine, illuminate, and maybe even debate the...
Lars Hansen, Eugene Fama, and Robert Shiller Share 2013 Nobel Prize
Becker Friedman Institute research director Lars Peter Hansen, Eugene Fama of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and Robert Shiller of Yale University share the 2013 Sveriges...