Christopher A. Pissarides

Sir Christopher Antoniou Pissarides FBA (/ˌpɪsəˈriːdiːz/; Greek: Χριστόφορος Αντωνίου Πισσαρίδης; born 20 February 1948^[1]) is a British-Cypriot economist.

Sir Christopher Pissarides
Born	(1948-02-20) 20 February 1948 (age 77)[1] Nicosia, Cyprus
Nationality	Cypriot, British
Institution	London School of Economics 1976–present University of Southampton 1974–76 University of Cyprus 2011–present[2] Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 2013–present[3]
Field	Labour economics
Alma mater	London School of Economics University of Essex
Doctoral advisor	Michio Morishima
Influences	Dale Mortensen
Contributions	Macroeconomic search and matching theories of unemployment, matching function, structural growth
Awards	IZA Prize in Labor Economics (2006) Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2010)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

He is the School Professor of Economics & Political Science and Regius Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, and Professor of European Studies at the University of Cyprus.

In 2010, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics, jointly with Peter A. Diamond and Dale Mortensen, "for their analysis of markets with theory of search frictions."^[4] In 2011, he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea.^[5]

Early life

Pisaridis is a Greek Orthodox. He was born in Nicosia, Cyprus.^[6]

He received his BA in Economics in 1970 and MA in Economics in 1971 from the University of Essex. He later enrolled at the London School of Economics, where he obtained a doctorate in economics in 1973 for a thesis entitled "Individual Behavior in Markets with Imperfect Information".^[7]

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