Christopher A. Sims

Christopher A. Sims

Born	October 21, 1942 (1942-10-21) (age 69) Washington, D.C.
Nationality	American
Institution	Princeton University
Field	Macroeconomics Econometrics Time series
Alma mater	Harvard University (A.B, PhD) UC Berkeley[1]
Opposed	"Structural" macroeconomic models
Contributions	Use of vector autoregression
Awards	Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2011)
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Christopher Albert "Chris" Sims (born October 21, 1942) is an econometrician and macroeconomist. He is currently the Harold B. Helms Professor of Economics and Banking at Princeton University.^[2] Together with Thomas Sargent, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2011.^[3] The award cited their "empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy".^[4]

Sims earned his A.B. in mathematics from Harvard University magna cum laude in 1963 and his PhD in Economics from Harvard in 1968. He has held teaching positions at Harvard, University of Minnesota, Yale University and, since 1999, Princeton. Sims is a Fellow of the Econometric Society (since 1974),^[5] a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1988) and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (since 1989). In 1995 he was the president of the Econometric Society. He will be the President-Elect of the American Economic Association in 2011 and then the President of the American Economic Association in 2012.

Sims published numerous important papers in his areas of research: econometrics and macroeconomic theory and policy. Among other things, he was one of the main promoters of the use of vector autoregression in empirical macroeconomics, and contributed to the development of Bayes estimators for vector autoregression.

He also helped develop the fiscal theory of the price level and the theory of rational inattention.

Publications

• Sims, Christopher (January 1980). "Macroeconomics and reality" (PDF). Econometrica 48 (1): 1–48. doi:10.2307/1912017. JSTOR 1912017. http://www.econ.umn.edu/library/mnpapers/1977-91.pdf. 

References

1. ^ "Christopher A. Sims Curriculum Vitae". December 23, 2008. http://sims.princeton.edu/yftp/vita4web.pdf. Retrieved October 10, 2011. 
2. ^ "Christopher A Sims". Thomson Reuters website. http://science.thomsonreuters.com/nobel/laureates/sims-christopher. Retrieved October 10, 2011. 
3. ^ "Nobel prize for economics awarded to two Americans". BBC News website. October 10, 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15241454. Retrieved October 10, 2011. 
4. ^ "The Prize in Economic Sciences 2011". Nobelprize.org. December 10, 2008. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2011/. Retrieved October 10, 2011. 
5. ^ Fellows of the Econometric Society as of February 2011, Econometric Society , Retrieved October 12, 2011.

External links

• Sims's biography on the official website of the Nobel Prize
• Sims's homepage on the Princeton University website

Persondata
Name	Sims, Christopher
Alternative names	Christopher A. Sims, Chris Sims
Short description	American time-series statistician and econometrician, developer of vector auto-regressive models, Bayesian statistician, President of the Econometric Society, 2011 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics (with Thomas J. Sargent)
Date of birth	October 21, 1942
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