IN SHORT
Economist and MIT alumnus Robert J. Shiller PhD ’72 won the 2013 Nobel Prize in economic sciences for his empirical analysis of asset prices. Shiller, currently a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, will share the award with Eugene F. Fama and Lars Peter Hansen of University of Chicago.
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