Robert J. Shiller | |
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Born | Robert James Shiller March 29, 1946 |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Michigan (B.A. 1967) MIT (Ph.D. 1972) |
Known for | Irrational Exuberance, Case-Shiller index |
Awards | Deutsche Bank Prize (2009) Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (2013) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Financial economics Behavioral finance |
Institutions | Yale University |
Doctoral advisor | Franco Modigliani |
Doctoral students | John Y. Campbell[3] |
Influences | John Maynard Keynes George Akerlof Irving Fisher |
Influenced | Pierre 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]
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.
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]