Lessons from a Nobel Laureate: Lars Peter Hansen Brings His Thinking to Fourth-Graders
Professor Hansen spoke with fourth-graders at the University of Chicago Lab schools, who featured the visit in their publication, Lab Life. The only thing cooler than getting to hold a Nobel...
How Useful is Economics? Interview with Lars Peter Hansen
Professor Hansen attended the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting and was interviewed about his perspective of the usefulness of economics. Watch the video interview here....
At Lindau, Hansen Shares Views on Uncertainty and Investment
At a gathering of economics Nobel laureates in Lindau, Germany, Lars Peter Hansen discusses revealing ways to characterize how uncertainy affects security markets. He explores the implications...
Hansen on Risk, Ambiguity, and Measurement: Interview
Professor Hansen joined Russ Roberts for his popular economics podcast, EconTalk. Hansen and Roberts discussed a wide range of topics with a special focus on Hansen's Nobel lecture, "Uncertainty...
Three Nobel Lectures and the Rhetoric of Finance
Economist John Cochrane, who blogs as The Grumpy Economist, attended the Nobel Lectures in economics and shared his perspective on the laureates' presentations, including Hansen's. He wrote, "Lars...
Lars Peter Hansen on Imperfect Models: Interview
David Brancaccio of the radio program Marketplace interviewed Professor Hansen shortly after he won the Nobel prize. DB: One example that comes to mind is we know a lot about climate change, but...
Lars Peter Hansen on the Importance of Building Better Models
Lars Peter Hansen appeared on the Goldstein on Gelt radio program and podcast to discuss the importance of building new models that address previous gaps in our understanding of the linkages between...
Lars Peter Hansen, the Nobel Laureate in the Middle
Jeff Sommer of the New York Times featured a story about Lars Peter Hansen shortly after Hansen was named a recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in economics. The article depicts the similarities and...
Economist: Methods for all Moments
The Economist covered the Nobel Prize announcement of 2013, including the work of Lars Peter Hansen....
The Generalized Method of Moments and Lars Peter Hansen’s Nobel
Economist John Cochrane explains the work behind Lars Peter Hansen's Nobel prize in his blog, The Grumpy Economist. Lars has done so much deep and pathbreaking research, that I can't begin to...