Christopher A. Sims - Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — 2011
photo Christopher A. Sims

Christopher A. Sims

Prize
Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — 2011
for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy
Together with: Thomas J. Sargent
Citizenship
United StatesUnited States
Languages
English
date of birth
10/21/1942
place of birth
Washington, D.C.
date of death
3/14/2026
place of death
Minneapolis
Lived
83 years
occupation
  • Nobel Prize winner
  • professor
  • university teacher
  • economist
  • statistician
field of work
  • economics
educated at
  • Harvard University
    • academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
    • end time: 1968
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • Greenwich High School
employer
  • Harvard University
  • Princeton University
  • University of Minnesota
  • Yale University
position held
  • President of the American Economic Association
    • start time: 2012
    • end time: 2013
member of
  • Econometric Society
    • start time: 1974
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
doctoral student
  • Agustin F. Ayuso-Lamadrid
  • Fernando Ballabriga
  • Baekin Cha
  • Heetaik Chung
  • Gestur Davidson
  • Evangelos Falaris
  • Hae-Shin Hwang
  • Beth Fisher Ingram
  • Moonsoo Kang
  • Jae-Young Kim
  • Yum-Keung (Fred) Kwan
  • John C. Larson
  • Bong Soo Lee
  • Eric Michael Leeper
  • Cristina Mazon
  • Yash Mehra
  • Javier Valles
    • end time: 1990
  • Eva Ventura-Colera
  • Mayra Zermeno-Livas
  • Dante Amengual
  • Gerald Nickelsburg
  • Xiaoguang Ni
  • Soledad Núñez Ramos
  • Jose A. Peris
  • Robert A. Shakotko
  • Sangdal Shim
  • Haoshu Tian
  • Ernst Schaumburg
  • Jae Won Lee
  • Chiong-long Kuo
  • Stefano George Athanasoulis
  • Saroj Bhattarai
  • Francesco Bianchi
    • end time: 2009
  • Shioji Etsuro
  • Salih Neftçi
  • Lars Peter Hansen
  • Alfonso Novales Cinca
  • Beth Ingram
  • Carol A. Dahl
  • Fabio Canova
  • Eric M. Leeper
  • George Eugene Tauchen
  • George Eugene Tauchen
  • John Geweke
  • Frank Schorfheide
  • Tao Zha
  • Paul R. Bergin
  • Steven Peter Cassou
  • Sŏng-hyŏn Kim
  • Herman J. Bierens
  • Bartosz Maćkowiak
  • Thomas Lubik
  • Marco Del Negro
    • end time: 1998
  • Giorgio Primiceri
  • Albert Marcet
  • Harald Uhlig
  • Teresa Garcia-Milà i Lloveras
notable work
  • vector autoregression
  • fiscal theory of the price level
Read on Wikipedia