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Christopher A. Sims

1942 - Today

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Christopher Albert Sims (born October 21, 1942) is an American econometrician and macroeconomist. He is currently 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christopher A. Sims has received more than 171,672 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Christopher A. Sims is the 146th most popular economist (up from 154th in 2019), the 1,966th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,362nd in 2019) and the 48th most popular American Economist.

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  • 170k

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  • 57.45

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Christopher A. Sims ranks 146 out of 315Before him are Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, Jeremy Rifkin, Ernst Engel, James Mirrlees, William F. Sharpe, and Benedetto Cotrugli. After him are Gustav von Schmoller, Lucas Papademos, Christopher A. Pissarides, John Bates Clark, Kenneth E. Boulding, and Michał Kalecki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Christopher A. Sims ranks 140Before him are Frank Zane, Herbjørg Wassmo, Muslim Magomayev, Pedro Rocha, Péter Nádas, and Ivo Viktor. After him are Linda Evans, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Felice Gimondi, Étienne Balibar, Vasily Alekseyev, and Michel Kafando.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Christopher A. Sims ranks 1,966 out of 18,182Before him are Chris Kyle (1974), Robert Lefkowitz (1943), Bill Paxton (1955), Ken Norton (1943), Mark W. Clark (1896), and Mandy Patinkin (1952). After him are Bo Diddley (1928), Liberace (1919), Linda Evans (1942), Paul Marcinkus (1922), Ian Somerhalder (1978), and Elizabeth George (1949).

Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Christopher A. Sims ranks 48Before him are Jim Rogers (1942), Robert Reich (1946), Walt Whitman Rostow (1916), Robert C. Merton (1944), Jeremy Rifkin (1945), and William F. Sharpe (1934). After him are John Bates Clark (1847), Daniel McFadden (1937), James Heckman (1944), Robert F. Engle (1942), Frank Knight (1885), and Paul Milgrom (1948).