BiografÃa / Speaker Info
Christopher Albert "Chris" Sims is an econometrician and macroeconomist. He currently serves as Professor of Economics and Finance at Princeton University. In 2011 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics shared with Thomas Sargent.
Christopher Albert Sims is an econometrician, macroeconomist, professor and researcher. He studied at Harvard University where he earned a PhD in Economics.
He is Professor of Economics and Finance at Princeton University. He has teaching experience at several universities, including Harvard, Minnesota and Yale University. In addition, he was president of the Econometric Society and was president of the American Economic Association. He has published numerous articles, important in his areas of research: econometrics and macroeconomic theory and policy. Among other things, he was one of the main promoters of Vector Autoregression in empirical macroeconomics.
Among his awards, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics (2011) together with his colleague Thomas Sargent and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
