Christopher A. Sims

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Christopher A. Sims (born October 21, 1942) is an econometrician and applied macroeconomist. He is currently the Harold B. Helms Professor of Economics and Banking at Princeton University.

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. Sims is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (since 1989) and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1988). In 1995 he held the chair of President of the Econometric Society.

Sims published numerous important papers in his areas of research: econometrics and macroeconomic theory and policy. Among other things, he was one of the main promoters of the use of Vector autoregression in empirical macroeconomics.