Sterling Professor of Economics Department of Economics
Yale University
Robert J. Shiller is Sterling Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and Cowles Foundation for Research, and Professor of Finance and Fellow at the International Center for Finance at Yale University. He received his B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1967 and his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972. He has written on financial markets, financial innovation, behavioral economics,
macroeconomics, real estate, statistical methods, and on public attitudes, opinions, and moral judgments regarding markets. He has been research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research since 1980, and has been co-‐‑organizer of NBER workshops: on behavioral finance with Richard Thaler since 1991, and on macroeconomics and individual decision making (behavioral macroeconomics) with George Akerlof 1994-‐‑2007. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Eugene Fama and Lars Peter Hansen in 2013. He served as Vice President of the American Economic Association, 2005 and President of the Eastern Economic Association, 2006-‐‑07. He was elected President of the American Economic Association for 2016. He writes a regular column "ʺFinance in the 21st Century"ʺ for Project Syndicate, which publishes around the world, and "ʺEconomic View"ʺ for The New York Times.