Robert J. Shiller

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]

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 79) Detroit, Michigan, U.S.[1][2]
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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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.^[6] 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.^[7]

Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Shiller received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics.^[8][9]