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Professor Robert J. Shiller, Nobel Prize Winner and Foreign Member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Turns 80

29 03 2026

Dear Professor,

The Presidium of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, members of the Division of the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts, and all our academic community sincerely congratulate you on the occasion of your 80th birthday.

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics Sciences, your important scholarly works on the topics of rationality (or irrationality) of financial markets, as well as your research revealing the expectations of investors regarding the value of future returns have made a significant contribution to the fintech education and culture around the world, including the Baltic countries.

We are impressed by your exceptional competence in popularisation of the modern finances and your reference to bitcoin as the biggest financial bubble of the time, your Case-Shiller Index that remains the industry standard, and your contribution to the training of highly competent scholars. Your active international activities and civic initiatives are also noteworthy. Our community is impressed by the success of your books, which have been selected as the best economic publications in the world.

We particularly appreciate your sincere and consistent attention to Lithuania. The professional and personal ties you have cultivated with Lithuanian researchers, academic and economic institutions point to your open-mindedness, your ability to bring together the communities of the social scientists of Europe and the USA.

Dear Professor, please accept our heartfelt wishes for creative success, important discoveries, meaningful work, and personal happiness.

Prof. Vytautas Nekrošius, President of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
Prof. Aušra Maslauskaitė, Chair of the Division of the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts

29 March, 2026
Vilnius

Robert J. Shiller at 80: the Rebel who Challenged Wall Street’s Faith (prepared by Academician Antanas Buračas)