NBER profile: Robert Shimer.

• Position: National Bureau of Economic Research - Brief article

Robert Shimer is a Research Associate in the NBER's Program on Economic Fluctuations and Growth and the Alvin H. Baum Professor in Economics and the College at the University of Chicago. He received his B.A. in economics from Yale University in 1990, his M. Phil. in economics from Oxford University in 1992, and his Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 1996.

Shimer began his academic career at Princeton University and joined the economics faculty at the University of Chicago in 2003. Shimer is a visiting professor at MIT this fall semester. He is also a consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and is currently editor of the Journal of Political Economy.

Shimer's research looks at the...