{"id":9954,"date":"2024-10-02T10:04:37","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T14:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/?p=9954"},"modified":"2024-10-04T12:12:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T16:12:43","slug":"university-of-chicago-professor-lars-hansen-2013-nobel-laureate-in-economic-sciences-to-highlight-purdue-presidential-lecture-on-oct-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/2024\/Q4\/university-of-chicago-professor-lars-hansen-2013-nobel-laureate-in-economic-sciences-to-highlight-purdue-presidential-lecture-on-oct-17","title":{"rendered":"University of Chicago professor Lars Hansen, 2013 Nobel laureate in economic sciences, to highlight Purdue Presidential Lecture on Oct. 17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. \u2014 Nobel laureate Lars Peter Hansen, a leading expert at the forefront of economic thinking and asset-price modeling, will join Purdue University President Mung Chiang this month as keynote for the next edition of the university\u2019s Presidential Lecture Serie<\/span>s.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Hansen, the David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and Statistics at the University of Chicago, shared the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2013<\/a> with University of Chicago colleague Eugene Fama and Robert Shiller of Yale University. They were recognized for their groundbreaking research on the workings of financial markets, asset prices and behavioral economics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hansen\u2019s Presidential Lecture<\/a> appearance, titled \u201cUncertainty in Our Scientific Inputs Into Policy: Disguise It or Embrace It?\u201d is at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17, in the Purdue Memorial Union\u2019s North Ballroom. The event is free and open to the public, but a general admission ticket<\/a> will be required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cProfessor Hansen is a leading expert in economic dynamics who works at the vanguard of macroeconomics, finance and econometrics, shaping our understanding of asset pricing and how economists model complex financial markets,\u201d Chiang said. \u201cWhat an honor this will be for our Purdue and Greater Lafayette communities to hear timely insights from one of the brightest business minds of our time whose research and scholarship have made fundamental advances in our understanding of how economic agents cope with changing and risky environments.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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