The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2011
Awarded on: 2011-10-10
"for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy"
Affiliations:
- Princeton University – Princeton, NJ, USA
Christopher A. Sims
Born: 1942-10-21 in Washington, D.C., USA
Gender: male
Field: American econometrician and macroeconomist (1942–2026)
Biography
Christopher Albert Sims was an American econometrician and macroeconomist. He was 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".