Robert Shiller - Nobel Laureates Series

Behavioral Finance and Narrative

Ranking as one of the most influential economists in the world, Robert Shiller is regarded as the distinguished authority on financial markets and stock price analysis. Having gained his PhD from MIT and teaching at Yale since 1982 much of his expertise revolves around behavioural finance – most famously predicting the last two stock market crashes each detailed in his ‘Irrational Exuberance’ books.

​He gained widespread credibility in the wake of the 1987 stock market crash following his criticism of the efficient-market hypothesis. Further, presenting a strong voice in the aftermath of the financial crisis and his continued analysis of long-term changes in asset prices eventually won him the Nobel Prize in 2013. To have someone of this calibre come to UCL with The Economist's Society and speak is an incredible gift to us all.