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Robert J. Shiller

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Robert James Shiller (born March 29, 1946) is an American economist, academic, and author. As of 2022, he served as a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and is a fellow at the Yale School of Management's International Center for Finance. Shiller has been a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) since 1980, was vice president of the American Economic Association in 2005, its president for 2016, and president of the Eastern Economic Association for 2006–2007. He is also the co‑founder and chief economist of the investment management firm MacroMarkets LLC. Shiller is known for four major intellectual contributions: 1) he co-developed the Case-Shiller housing price index, which uses a statistical technique to value a house based upon recent sales prices of other houses; 2) he challenged the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EFM), using a statistical model that showed that the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert J. Shiller has received more than 1,014,048 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Robert J. Shiller is the 125th most popular economist (down from 108th in 2019), the 1,663rd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,498th in 2019) and the 38th most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Robert J. Shiller ranks 125 out of 414. Before him are Joan Robinson, Jeremy Rifkin, Jean Tirole, Lucas Papademos, Harriet Martineau, and Knut Wicksell. After him are Tjalling Koopmans, Alan Greenspan, George Stigler, John Harsanyi, James Meade, and Eugene Fama.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Robert J. Shiller ranks 120. Before him are Stan Smith, Fancy, John C. Mather, Wim Jansen, Vuk Drašković, and Htin Kyaw. After him are Riccardo Cocciante, Artur Jorge, Laurent Fabius, Shlomo Sand, Joop Zoetemelk, and Bigas Luna.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert J. Shiller ranks 1,663 out of 20,380. Before him are Richard Jordan Gatling (1818), Jennifer Grey (1960), Vera Miles (1929), John Turturro (1957), Jean M. Auel (1936), and Frank Zane (1942). After him are LeBron James (1984), Thornton Wilder (1897), Cesar Romero (1907), Elmer Bernstein (1922), Josephine Chaplin (1949), and Michelle Rodriguez (1978).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Robert J. Shiller ranks 38. Before him are Thomas Schelling (1921), Thomas J. Sargent (1943), William Nordhaus (1941), Merton Miller (1923), Edward C. Prescott (1940), and Jeremy Rifkin (1945). After him are Alan Greenspan (1926), George Stigler (1911), Eugene Fama (1939), Christopher A. Sims (1942), Robert C. Merton (1944), and Robert Fogel (1926).

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