Christopher Albert Sims

**Christopher Albert Sims** (* 21. Oktober 1942 in Washington D. C.; † 14. März 2026) weer en US-amerikaansch Ökonom. 2011 wurr hüm de Nobelpries för Wertschapswetenschapen tospraaken. He kreeg de Utteknung gemeensam mit Thomas John Sargent för sien Forschen up dat Rebeet vun de Makroökonomie.

## Leven
1959 fung Sims en Studium an de Harvard University an, dat he 1963 mit den Bachelor in Mathematik afslooten hett. 1968 kreeg he dor sien Doktertitel Ph. D. in Wertschapswetenschapen. He bleev denn noch twee Johr as Assistenzperfesser in  Harvard, wessel denn 1970 an de University of Minnesota, wo he bit 1974 Associate Perfesser un denn bit 1990 Perfesser weer. Van 1990 bit 1999 lehr he as Henry Ford II Perfesser an de Yale University, bevör 1999 an de Princeton University gung. Dor weer he Perfesser för Ökonomie un siet 2004 is he Harold H. Helm '20 Professor of Economics and Banking. 1974 weer he Gastperfeeser in Yale un 1979/80 an dat Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Sims arbeit up dat Rebeet vun de Makroökonomie un de Ökonometrie. Buterdem is he för vektorautoregressive Modelle bekannt.

## Liddmaat vun
* 1975 Econometric Society (1995 deren Präsident)
* 1988 American Academy of Arts and Sciences
* 1989 National Academy of Sciences

## Warken
* *The Dynamics of Productivity Change. A Theoretical and Empirical Study*. Dissertation, Harvard University, 1968.
* Herausgeber: *Advances in econometrics. Sixth world congress*. (Papers given at the Sixth World Congress of the Econometric Society in Barcelona in August 1990.) University Press, Cambridge [u. a.] 1994, ISBN 0-521-44459-4

Artikel (Utwahl)
* *Discrete Approximations to Continuous Time Distributed Lags in Econometrics*. In: *Econometrica*. Band 39, Nr. 3, 1971, S. 545–563
* *Distributed Lag Estimation When the Parameter Space is Explicitly Infinite-Dimensional*. In: *Annals of Mathematical Statistics*. Band 42, Nr. 5, 1971, S. 1622–1636.
* *Money, Income, and Causality*. In: *American Economic Review*. Band 62, Nr. 4, 1972, S. 540–552
* *Seasonality in Regression*. In: *Journal of the American Statistical Association*. Band 69, 1974, S. 618–627
* *Exogeneity and causal orderings in macroeconometric models*. In: *New methods in business cycle research*. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis 1977.
* *Macroeconomics and Reality*. In: *Econometrica*. Band 48, Nr. 1, 1980, S. 1–48
* *Policy Analysis with Econometric Models*. In: *Brookings Papers on Economic Activity*. Band 13, 1982, S. 107–164.
* mit: Harald Uhlig: *Understanding Unit Rooters. A Helicopter Tour*. In: *Econometrica*. Band 59, Nr. 6, 1991, S. 1591–1599
* mit Eric M. Leeper: *Towards a Modern Macroeconomic Model Usable for Policy Analysis*. In: *NBER Macroeconomics Annual*. MIT Press, 1994, S. 81–118
* *A Simple Model for Study of the Determination of the Price Level and the Interaction of Monetary and Fiscal Policy*. In: *Economic Theory*. Springer, Band 4, Nr. 3, 1994, S. 381–399.
* *Macroeconomics and Methodology*. In: *Journal of Economic Perspectives*. Band 10, Nr. 1, 1996, S. 105–120
* mit Eric M. Leeper und Tao Zha: *What Does Monetary Policy Do?* In: *Brookings Papers on Economic Activity*. Band 27, 1996, S. 1–78
* mit Tao Zha: *Bayesian Methods for Dynamic Multivariate Models*. In: *International Economic Review*. Band 39, Nr. 4, 1998, S. 949–968
* *Role of interest rate policy in the generation and propagation of business cycles. What has changed since the '30s?*. Proceedings 1998 Boston FRB Annual Res. Conf., Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 1999, S. 121–160
* mit Tao Zha: *Error Bands for Impulse Responses*. In: *Econometrica*. Band 67, Nr. 5, 1999, S. 1113–1156
* *The Precarious Fiscal Foundations of EMU*. In: *De Economist*. Band 147, Nr. 4, 1999, S. 415–436
* *Fiscal consequences for Mexico of adopting the dollar*. In: *Journal of Money, Credit and Banking*. Band 33, Nr. 2, 2001, S. 597–616
* *Solving Linear Rational Expectations Models*. In: *Computational Economics*. Band 20, Nr. 1/2, 2002, S. 1–20
* *The Role of Models and Probabilities in the Monetary Policy Process*. In: *Brookings Papers on Economic Activity*. Band 33, 2002, S. 1–62
* *Rational Inattention. Beyond the Linear-Quadratic Case*. In: *American Economic Review*. Band 96, Nr. 2, 2006, S. 158–163

## Literatur
* Mark Blaug (Hrsg.): *Who's who in economics*. 4. Auflage, Elgar, Cheltenham [u. a.] 2003, S. 770 f., ISBN 1-84064-992-5

## Weblenken

* ''Chris Sims's Page''. auf princeton.edu
* DNB-Katalog

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