Background
Shimer, Robert J. was born on August 21, 1968 in New York City. Son of Zachary and Susan Rosenthal Shimer.
Shimer, Robert J. was born on August 21, 1968 in New York City. Son of Zachary and Susan Rosenthal Shimer.
Bachelor, Yale University, 1990. Master of Philosophy, Oxford University, 1992. Doctor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996.
He was an editor of the Journal of Political Economy from 2004 to 2012. His research focuses on the search and matching approach to labor economics. He is especially known for arguing that the standard labor market matching model predicts fluctuations in the unemployment rate much smaller than those actually observed over the business cycle, an observation which has sometimes been called the Shimer puzzle.
His book Labor Markets and Business Cycles was published in 2010 by Princeton University Press, and was recommended by Robert Hall:
Shimer"s definitive account of the modern theory of labor market volatility presents many new results and deserves a prominent place on the bookshelf of every macroeconomist and labor economist.
Member of Society Economic Dynamics, Econometric Society, American Economic Association.
Married Alicia Menendez, July 11, 1998.