Lars Peter Hansen

At-a-Glance

2013 recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, Statistics, and the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago
Director at Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics at the University of Chicago since 2011
Developer of the econometric technique, generalized method of moments (GMM)
Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota (1978)
B.S. in Mathematics and Political Science from Utah State University (1974)

Biography

Lars Peter Hansen is an American economist and the David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, Statistics, and the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. He has served as Director at the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics at the University of Chicago since 2011. In 2013, he was a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.