2024-2025 GCER Distinguished Visitor Series

Christian B. Hansen is the Wallace W. Booth Professor of Econometrics and Statistics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Prof. Hansen is the current academic coordinator for the Booth Executive MBA program. He is also co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy – Microeconomics. Prof. Hansen studies applied and theoretical econometrics. His research has chiefly been in the areas of the use of high-dimensional statistical methods in economic applications, estimation of panel data models, inference using clustered standard errors, quantile regression, and weak instruments. His most recent research has looked at the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence as in input to estimation of causal and policy effects.

Kevin Lang is a professor of economics at Boston University. He is also an elected Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He is the author of Poverty and Discrimination and over 100 papers and articles on topics in Labor Economics. He was awarded the Laurence A. Bloom Professorship in Economics.

Vincent Sterk is a Professor at the Economics Department of University College London, specializing in macroeconomics. He is currently a joint Managing Editor of the Review of Economic Studies, an academic advisor for the Bank of England, and an adjunct professor at NHH Bergen.