Lars Peter Hansen is an American economist. He is the David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, Statistics, and the Booth School of Business, at the University of Chicago and a 2013 recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in... Wikipedia
Born: 1952 (age 71 years), Urbana, IL
Education: University of Minnesota (1978), Utah State University (1974), and Logan High School
Doctoral students: Narayana Kocherlakota; Masao Ogaki; Amir Yaron; Ravi Jagannathan
Contributions: Generalized method of moments, robust control applied to macroeconomics and asset pricing
Doctoral advisor: Christopher A. Sims
Field: Macroeconomics
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