Christopher A. Pissarides
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Official LSE portrait of Professor Sir Christopher Pissarides
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| Born |
20 February 1948 Nicosia, Cyprus |
| Nationality | Cypriot, British |
| Institution |
London School of Economics 1976– University of Southampton 1974–76 University of Cyprus 2011– Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 2013– |
| Field | Labour economics |
| Alma mater |
London School of Economics University of Essex |
| Doctoral advisor |
Michio Morishima |
| Influences | Dale Mortensen |
| Contributions |
Macroeconomic search and matching theories of unemployment, matching function, structural growth |
| Awards |
IZA Prize in Labor Economics (2006) Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2010) |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Sir Christopher Antoniou Pissarides FBA (Greek: Χριστόφορος Αντωνίου Πισσαρίδης; born 20 February 1948) is a British-Cypriot economist. He is the School Professor of Economics & Political Science and Regius Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. His research interests focus on several topics of macroeconomics, notably labour, economic growth, and economic policy. In 2010, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics, jointly with Peter A. Diamond and Dale Mortensen, for his contributions to the theory of search frictions and macroeconomics.
Pissarides was born in Nicosia, Cyprus into a Greek Orthodox family from the village of Agros.
He was educated at the Pancyprian Gymnasium in Nicosia. He received his B.A. in Economics in 1970 and his M.A. in Economics in 1971 at the University of Essex. He subsequently enrolled in the London School of Economics, where he received his PhD in Economics in 1973 under the supervision of the mathematical economist Michio Morishima for a thesis titled Individual behaviour in markets with imperfect information.
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