Christopher Pissarides

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Christopher Pissarides

Sir Christopher Antoniou Pissarides ( Χριστόφορος Πισσαρίδης ; born February 20, 1948 in Nicosia , Cyprus ) is a Cypriot-British economist and professor of economics and politics at the London School of Economics . In 2010 he received the Nobel Prize in Economics and in 2013 he became the first Regius Professor of Economics .

Live and act

Christopher Pissarides was born as the son of Antonios and Evdokia Pissarides and studied economics at the University of Essex from 1967 to 1971 , where he obtained his bachelor's degree in 1970 and his master's degree in 1971 . 1971 to 1973 he received his PhD from the London School of Economics . His dissertation , supervised by Michio Morishima , is entitled Individual Behavior in Markets with Imperfect Information. After a short stint at the Central Bank of Cyprus , he was a lecturer in economics at the University of Southampton from 1974 to 1976 before moving back to the London School of Economics. There he was lecturer from 1976 to 1982 and reader for economics from 1982 to 1986. Since 1986 he has represented this subject as a professor. Since 1994 he has also been doing research at the Center for Economic Policy Research and since 2001 at the Institute for the Future of Work . Visiting professorships led him to Harvard University and the National Bureau of Economic Research (1979–1980), Princeton University (1984), the European University Institute Florence (1989), the University of California, Berkeley (1990–1991), the Institute for Higher studies in Vienna (1992), the University of California, Los Angeles (1996) and at Yale University (2000).

Since October 2013 he has been head of the Laboratory for the Study of Economic Growth at the St. Petersburg State University .

Pissarides works on the interaction between the labor market and macroeconomics , in particular on unemployment , labor market policy , growth and structural change .

He has two sons and a daughter.

Awards

Memberships

Works

Books
  • Labor Market Adjustment. Microeconomic Foundations of Short-Run Neoclassical and Keynesian Dynamics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1976, ISBN 0-521-21064-X .
  • Equilibrium Unemployment Theory. Basil Blackwell, Oxford [and a.] 1990, ISBN 0-631-15213-X ; 2nd edition, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. [u. a.] 2000, ISBN 0-262-16187-7 .
  • as editor with Jeffrey A. Frankel: NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2005. National Bureau of Economic Research, MIT Press Cambridge, Mass. [u. a.] 2007, ISBN 0-262-56229-4 .
  • as editor with Tito Boeri and Daniela Del Boca: Women at Work. An economic perspective. A Report for the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti, Oxford University Press, Oxford [u. a.] 2005, ISBN 0-19-928188-2 .
Article (selection)
  • The Role of Relative Wages and Excess Demand in the Sectoral Flow of Labor. In: Review of Economic Studies. Volume 45, No. 3, October 1978, pp. 453-467.
  • Job Matchings with State Employment Agencies and Random Search. In: Economic Journal. Volume 89, No. 356, December 1979, pp. 818-833.
  • From School to University. The Demand for Post-Compulsory Education in Britain. In: Economic Journal. Volume 92, No. 367, September 1982, pp. 654-667.
  • Search Intensity, Job Advertising, and Efficiency. In: Journal of Labor Economics. Volume 2, No. 1, January 1984, pp. 128-143.
  • Efficient job rejection. In: Economic Journal. Volume 94, No. 376a, 1984, pp. 97-108.
  • Short-run Equilibrium Dynamics of Unemployment Vacancies, and Real Wages. In: American Economic Review. Volume 75, No. 4, September 1985, pp. 676-690.
  • Unemployment and Vacancies in Britain. In: Economic Policy. Volume 3, No. 3, 1986, pp. 499-559.
  • Search, Wage Bargains and Cycles. In: Review of Economic Studies. Vol. 54, No. 3, July 1987, pp. 473-483.
  • with Jonathan Wadsworth: Unemployment and the Inter-regional Mobility of Labor. In: Economic Journal. Volume 99, No. 397, September 1989, pp. 739-755.
  • with R. Jackman and Richard Layard: On Vacancies. In: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Department of Economics. Volume 51, No. 4, November 1989, pp. 377-394.
  • Loss of Skill during Unemployment and the Persistence of Employment Shocks. In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics. Volume 107, No. 4, November 1992, pp. 1371-1391.
  • with Charles Bean: Unemployment, consumption and growth. In: European Economic Review. Volume 37, No. 4, May 1993, pp. 837-854.
  • with Dale Mortensen : Job Creation and Job Destruction in the Theory of Unemployment. In: Review of Economic Studies. Volume 61, No. 3, July 1994, pp. 397-415.
  • Search Unemployment with On-the-Job Search. In: Review of Economic Studies. Volume 61, No. 3, July 1994, pp. 457-475.
  • The impact of employment tax cuts on unemployment and wages. The role of unemployment benefits and tax structure. In: European Economic Review. Volume 42, No. 1, January 1998, pp. 155-183.
  • with Dale Mortensen: Unemployment Responses to 'Skill-Biased' Technology Shocks. The Role of Labor Market Policy. In: Economic Journal. Volume 109, No. 455, April 1999, pp. 242-265.
  • with Petrongolo Barbara: Looking into the Black Box. A survey of the matching function. In: Journal of Economic Literature. In: American Economic Association. Volume 39, No. 2, June 2001, pp. 390-431.

literature

  • Who's Who 2008. 160th edition, A&C Black, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8 , p. 1844
  • Mark Blaug and Howard R. Vane (Eds.): Who's who in economics . 4th edition, Elgar, Cheltenham and Northampton 2003, ISBN 1-84064-992-5 , pp. 649-651
  • Christopher Antoniou Pissarides , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 46/2010 of November 16, 2010, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Commons : Christopher Pissarides  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ At the St. Petersburg University a laboratory under the direction of Christopher Pissarides started its work (russ.)
  2. ↑ Directory of members: Christopher A. Pissarides. Academia Europaea, accessed January 6, 2018 (English, with biographical and other information).
personal data
SURNAME Pissarides, Christopher
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pissarides, Sir Christopher Antoniou (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cypriot economist
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Nicosia , Cyprus