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Christopher A. Sims
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American econometrician and macroeconomist (1942-2026)
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- Born
- 1942
- Died
- 2026
- Works
- 9
Top works
- The dynamics of productivity change
- Methods for inference in large multiple-equation Markov-switching models
- MCMC method for Markov mixture simultaneous-equation models
- Were there regime switches in U.S. monetary policy?
- Advances in Econometrics
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
Discography
- Dream Walking2018
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5 total works indexed
- RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 23,882x
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 22,931x
- A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate
· 2009 · cited 22,298x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,048x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,519x
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Key facts
- Born
- Christopher Albert Sims , ( 1942-10-21 ) October 21, 1942, Washington, D.C. , U.S.
- Died
- March 14, 2026 (2026-03-14) (aged 83), Minneapolis , Minnesota, U.S.
- Education
- Harvard University ( AB , PhD )
- Thesis
- The dynamics of productivity change: a theoretical and empirical study (1968)
- Doctoral advisor
- Hendrik S. Houthakker
- Discipline
- Macroeconomics , Econometrics , Time series
- Institutions
- Princeton University , Yale University , University of Minnesota , Harvard University
- Doctoral students
- Lars Peter Hansen , Harald Uhlig
- Notable ideas
- Use of vector autoregression
- Awards
- Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2011)
- Website
- Information at IDEAS / RePEc
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- Nobel Prize 2011-Press Conference KVA-DSC 7720.jpg
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- Christopher A. Sims
- date of birth
- 1942-10-21
- name in native language
- Christopher A. Sims
- date of death
- 2026-03-14
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Christopher Albert Sims (October 21, 1942 – March 14, 2026) was an American econometrician and macroeconomist. He was the John J.F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics at Princeton University. Together with Thomas Sargent, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2011. The award cited their "empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy".
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