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Lars Peter Hansen

1952 - Today

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Lars Peter Hansen (born 26 October 1952 in Urbana, Illinois) 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 Economics. Hansen is best known for his work on the generalized method of moments, he is also a distinguished macroeconomist, focusing on the linkages between the financial sector and the macroeconomy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lars Peter Hansen has received more than 259,215 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia. Lars Peter Hansen is the 174th most popular economist (up from 199th in 2019), the 2,652nd most popular biography from United States (up from 3,259th in 2019) and the 57th most popular American Economist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Lars Peter Hansen ranks 174 out of 414. Before him are Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, Lionel Robbins, Wilhelm Röpke, Pierre Leroux, George Shultz, and Walter Eucken. After him are Gustave de Molinari, Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, Nicholas Kaldor, Daniel Ellsberg, and Jim Rogers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Lars Peter Hansen ranks 136. Before him are David Icke, Vandana Shiva, Graham Greene, Clive Barker, Yuriko Koike, and Uljana Semjonova. After him are Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria, Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem, Dirceu, Chuck Lorre, Roger Y. Tsien, and Yoshitaka Amano.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lars Peter Hansen ranks 2,652 out of 20,380. Before him are Daniel Davis (1945), Linda Gray (1940), G. W. Bailey (1944), Marian Anderson (1897), J. J. Abrams (1966), and Kamehameha III (1814). After him are Jane Alexander (1939), Monte Melkonian (1957), John Basilone (1916), Merian C. Cooper (1893), John Kennedy Toole (1937), and David Baltimore (1938).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Lars Peter Hansen ranks 57. Before him are John Bates Clark (1847), William F. Sharpe (1934), Daniel McFadden (1937), Roger Myerson (1951), Henry George (1839), and George Shultz (1920). After him are Daniel Ellsberg (1931), Jim Rogers (1942), Michael Spence (1943), Frank Knight (1885), Robert B. Wilson (1937), and Benjamin Tucker (1854).

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