Christopher A. Pissarides

Christopher Antoniou Pissarides ( Χριστόφορος Πισσαρίδης; born February 20, 1948 in Nicosia, Cyprus) is a Cypriot economist and professor of economics and political science at the prestigious London School of Economics. In 2010 he received the Nobel Prize in Economics.

Life and work

Christopher Pissarides was born the son of Antonio and Evdokia Pissarides 1967 to 1971 and studied economics at the University of Essex, where he in 1970 and his bachelor's degree in 1971 his Masters earned. 1971 to 1973 he completed his PhD at the London School of Economics. His supervised by Michio Morishima thesis is entitled Individual Behaviour in Markets with Imperfect Information. After a short period for the Central Bank of Cyprus from 1974 to 1976 he was a lecturer in economics at the University of Southampton, before he moved to the London School of Economics again. He was from 1976 to 1982 Lecturer and 1982-1986 Reader for economics. Since 1986 he represents this subject as a professor. Since 1994 he also conducts research at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and since 2001 at the Institute for the Study of Labor. He was Guest professor at Harvard University and the National Bureau of Economic Research (1979-1980), Princeton University (1984 ), the European University Institute in Florence (1989 ), the University of California, Berkeley (1990-1991 ), the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna (1992 ), the University of California, Los Angeles (1996) and at Yale University ( 2000).

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

He has two sons and a daughter. His hobbies include cooking, gardening and walking.

Awards

  • 2005 IZA Prize in Labor Economics (Institute for the Study of Labor, with Dale Mortensen )
  • 2007-2008 Excellence in Refereeing Award ( American Economic review )
  • 2008 Republic of Cyprus Aristeion for the Arts, Literature and Sciences
  • 2009 Honorary Doctor of the University of Cyprus
  • 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics jointly with Peter A. Diamond and Dale T. Mortensen

Memberships

  • Royal Economic Society (1996-2003 Board Member)
  • European Economic Association (2005 - Board Member, 2009 Vice President, 2011 President )
  • 1997 Econometric Society (2005 - Board Member)
  • 2002 British Academy
  • 2008 Society of Labor Economists

Works

  • Labour 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 [ua ], 1990, ISBN 0-631-15213- X; 2nd edition, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.. [ among other things ] 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.. . [ inter alia ] In 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 [ua ] 2005, ISBN 0-19-928188-2.
  • The Role of Relative Wages and Excess Demand in the Sectoral Flow of Labour. 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, p 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. Volume 54, No. 3, May 1987, pp. 473-483.
  • With Jonathan Wadsworth: Unemployment and the Inter- regional Mobility of Labour. 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 falling on Unemployment and the Persistence of Employment Shocks. In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics. Volume 107, No. 4, November 1992, pp. 1371-1391.
  • 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, May 1994, pp. 397-415.
  • Search Unemployment with On-the- Job Search. In: Review of Economic Studies. Volume 61, No. 3, May 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 Labour Market Policy. In: Economic Journal. Volume 109, No. 455, April 1999, pp. 242-265.
  • With Barbara Petrongolo: 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.
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