Christopher A. Sims
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| Born |
Christopher Albert Sims October 21, 1942 Washington, D.C. |
| Nationality | United States |
| Institution |
Princeton University Yale University University of Minnesota Harvard University |
| Field |
Macroeconomics Econometrics Time series |
| Alma mater | Harvard University, (A.B, PhD) |
| Doctoral advisor |
Hendrik S. Houthakker |
| Doctoral students |
Lars Peter Hansen Harald Uhlig |
| Contributions | Use of vector autoregression |
| Awards | Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2011) |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Christopher Albert "Chris" Sims (born October 21, 1942) is an American econometrician and macroeconomist. He is currently the John J.F. Sherrerd ’52 University Professor of Economics at Princeton University. Together with Thomas Sargent, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2011. The award cited their "empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy".
Sims was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Ruth Bodman (Leiserson), a Democratic politician, and Albert Sims, a state department worker. His father was of English and Northern Irish descent, and his mother was of half Estonian Jewish and half English ancestry. He earned his A.B. in mathematics from Harvard University magna cum laude in 1963 and his PhD in Economics from Harvard in 1968 under supervision of Hendrik S. Houthakker. He has held teaching positions at Harvard, Yale University and, since 1999, Princeton. He spent the longest portion of his career at the University of Minnesota, teaching there from 1970 to 1990. Sims is a Fellow of the Econometric Society (since 1974), 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 president of the Econometric Society; in 2012, he was president of the American Economic Association. Sims currently lives in New Jersey.
Sims has 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. He has also advocated Bayesian statistics, arguing for its power in formulating and evaluating economic policies.
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