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 (age 80) Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
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
Influences	John Maynard Keynes George Akerlof Irving Fisher
Influenced	Pierre Perron Eric Janszen
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Robert James Shiller (born March 29, 1946) 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.

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. 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.

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

References

Other websites

• Article on Robert J. Shiller (German language) Archived 2013-10-19 at the Wayback Machine
• Robert Shiller's interview on the housing crisis with The Politic Archived 2021-04-21 at the Wayback Machine
• Video conversation on the economy with Shiller and Robert Wright on Bloggingheads.tv.
• "Finance and the Good Society – Irreconcilable or Inseparable?" Archived 2013-10-16 at the Wayback Machine Presentation by Robert J. Shiller for the CFO Insight Magazine, August 2012
• Link to podcast lecture at London School of Economics on Sub Prime Crisis Archived 2009-02-12 at the Wayback Machine
• RSA Vision webcasts – Robert Shiller in conversation with Daniel Finkelstein on "How Human Psychology Drives the Economy" Archived 2009-06-12 at the Wayback Machine

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