Christopher Sims is a Professor of Economics and Banking at Princeton University. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and has served as president of the Econometric Society. He has been a visiting scholar at several US Federal Reserve banks. His research interests include applied and theoretical econometrics, especially application of Bayesian approaches, and applied and theoretical macroeconomics, particularly monetary and fiscal policy. Recently he has worked on the application of information theory to modeling economic behavior.

Christopher Sims earned his Ph.D. in Economics in 1968 at Harvard University. He held teaching positions at Harvard, University of Minnesota, Yale University and, since 1999, Princeton. He is currently the President-elect of the American Economic Association and will be the President in 2012.

Christopher Sims has been awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Economics for his substantive contributions to empirical macroeconomics using VAR analysis.

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