About Robert Shiller
His 1989 book Market Volatility (MIT Press) is a mathematical and behavioral analysis of price fluctuations in speculative markets. His 1993 book Macro Markets: Creating Institutions for Managing Society's Largest Economic Risks (Oxford University Press) proposes a variety of new risk-management contracts, such as futures contracts in national incomes or in real estate that would permit the management of risks to standards of living. His book Irrational Exuberance (Princeton 2000, Broadway Books, 2001, 2nd edition, Princeton, 2005, and in 15 foreign language editions) is an analysis and explication of speculative bubbles, with special reference to the stock market and real estate. His book The New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st Century (Princeton University Press, 2003, 2004, and in 8 foreign language editions) is an analysis of an expanding role of finance, insurance, and public finance in our future. He has been research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research since 1980, and has been co-organizer of NBER workshops: on behavioral finance with Richard Thaler since 1991, and on macroeconomics and individual decision making with George Akerlof since 1994. He is co-founder, with Karl Case and Allan Weiss, of Case Shiller Weiss, Inc., an economics research and information firm which was sold in 2002 and renamed Fiserv CSW, Inc. He is also co-founder and principal, with Allan Weiss and Samuel Masucci, of Macro Securities Research, LLC, a firm devoted to the securitization of new risks, and of Macro Financial, LLC, a boutique investment bank. He serves as Vice President of the American Economic Association and President of the Eastern Economic Association, 2005. He writes a column “Finance in the 21st Century” for Project Syndicate, which publishes around the world. He is married to Virginia M. Shiller, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist specializing in child and family therapy and author of Rewards for Kids! Ready-to-Use Charts & Activities for Positive Parenting.
Online Papers by Robert Shiller
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Robert J. Shiller is the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, and fellow at the International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management. He received his B. A. from the University of Michigan in 1967 and his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972. He has written on financial markets, financial innovation, behavioral economics, macroeconomics, real estate, statistical methods, and on public attitudes, opinions, and moral judgments regarding markets.