Robert J. Shiller

Robert J. Shiller
Shiller at a meeting with President Tsai Ing-wen in July 2017
Born
Robert James Shiller

(1946-03-29) March 29, 1946
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMichigan (B.A. 1967)
MIT (Ph.D. 1972)
Known forIrrational Exuberance, Case-Shiller index
AwardsDeutsche Bank Prize (2009) Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (2013)
Scientific career
FieldsFinancial economics
Behavioral finance
InstitutionsYale University
Doctoral advisorFranco Modigliani
Doctoral studentsJohn Y. Campbell[3]
InfluencesJohn Maynard Keynes
George Akerlof
Irving Fisher
InfluencedPierre Perron
Eric Janszen
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Robert James Shiller (born March 29, 1946)[4] is an American Nobel Laureate, economist, academic, and best-selling author. He serves as a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and is a fellow at the Yale School of Management's International Center for Finance.[5]

Early life

Shiller was born in Detroit, Michigan. He studied at Kalamazoo College and the University of Michigan where he received his B.A. degree in 1967.[6] He received the S.M. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1968, and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1972.

Career

Shiller has been a researcher of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) since 1980, was vice president of the American Economic Association in 2005, and president of the Eastern Economic Association for 2006–2007.[7]

Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Shiller received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics.[8][9]

References

  1. ↑ Grove, Lloyd. "World According to ... Robert Shiller". Portfolio.com. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
  2. ↑ Blaug, Mark; Vane, Howard R. (2003). Who's who in economics (4 ed.). Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 1-84064-992-5.
  3. ↑ Campbell, John Y. (2004), "An Interview with Robert J. Shiller", Macroeconomic Dynamics, 8 (5), Cambridge University Press: 649–683, doi:10.1017/S1365100504040027, S2CID 154975037, retrieved 2009-03-22
  4. ↑ "The Closing: Robert Shiller". The Real Deal. November 1, 2007. Archived from the original on November 2, 2012. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  5. ↑ "ICF Fellows". About. Yale University School of Management. Retrieved 21 September 2012.
  6. ↑ Van Sweden, James (October 22, 2013). "Alumnus Wins Nobel Prize". www.kzoo.edu. Kalamazoo College. Retrieved October 31, 2013.
  7. ↑ "Past Presidents". Eastern Economic Association. Archived from the original on February 11, 2017. Retrieved February 9, 2017.
  8. ↑ The Prize in Economic Sciences 2013 Archived 2018-06-22 at the Wayback Machine, nobelprize.org, retrieved 14 October 2013
  9. ↑ 3 US Economists Win Nobel for Work on Asset Prices, ABC News, October 14, 2013

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