Lars Peter Hansen

If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents…

— Lars Peter Hansen

I think the understanding of the role of markets has really helped advance the values of entrepreneurship. Its helped shape public policy…

— Lars Peter Hansen

I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you…

— Lars Peter Hansen

I think the understanding of the role of markets has really helped advance the values of entrepreneurship. It's helped shape public policy…

— Lars Peter Hansen

Early on, in discussions of financial oversight, people would say, 'Well, this is a very complicated problem, therefore it requires a complicated…

— Lars Peter Hansen

A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.

— Lars Peter Hansen

It's kind of a funny way to put it, but if you want to study a dynamic economic system, what you'd like…

— Lars Peter Hansen

I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do…

— Lars Peter Hansen

There is a big divergence between views on a variety of policy issues from fiscal stimulus to financial regulation. It's my hope…

— Lars Peter Hansen