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Robert Shimer

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University of Chicago Department of Economics 1126 East 59th Street Chicago, IL 606371
Terminal Degree:1996 Economics Department; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (from RePEc Genealogy)

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(99%) Department of Economics
University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois (United States)
http://economics.uchicago.edu/
RePEc:edi:deuchus (more details at EDIRC)

(1%) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
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Working papers

  1. Fernando E. Alvarez & Katarína Borovičková & Robert Shimer, 2021. "Consistent Evidence on Duration Dependence of Price Changes," NBER Working Papers 29112, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Mohammad Akbarpour & Julien Combe & Yinghua He & Victor Hiller & Robert Shimer & Olivier Tercieux, 2020. "Unpaired Kidney Exchange: Overcoming Double Coincidence of Wants without Money," NBER Working Papers 27765, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  3. Maryam Farboodi & Gregor Jarosch & Robert Shimer, 2020. "Internal and External Effects of Social Distancing in a Pandemic," NBER Working Papers 27059, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  4. Qi Li & Robert Shimer, 2019. "Liquidity and Price Dispersion in Markets with Information Heterogeneity," 2019 Meeting Papers 1491, Society for Economic Dynamics.
  5. Katarína Borovičková & Robert Shimer, 2017. "High Wage Workers Work for High Wage Firms," NBER Working Papers 24074, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  6. Maryam Farboodi & Gregor Jarosch & Robert Shimer, 2017. "The Emergence of Market Structure," NBER Working Papers 23234, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  7. Robert Shimer, 2017. "Measuring Sorting with Time-Varying Characteristics," 2017 Meeting Papers 1628, Society for Economic Dynamics.
  8. Robert Shimer & Gregor Jarosch & Maryam Farboodi, 2016. "Meeting Technologies in Decentralized Asset Markets," 2016 Meeting Papers 844, Society for Economic Dynamics.
  9. Fernando E. Alvarez & Katarína Borovičková & Robert Shimer, 2016. "Decomposing Duration Dependence in a Stopping Time Model," NBER Working Papers 22188, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  10. Robert Shimer & Katarina Borovickova & Fernando Alvarez, 2015. "The Proportional Hazard Model: Estimation and Testing using Price Change and Labor Market Data," 2015 Meeting Papers 1364, Society for Economic Dynamics.
  11. Robert Shimer & Iván Werning, 2015. "Efficiency and Information Transmission in Bilateral Trading," NBER Working Papers 21495, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  12. Robert Shimer & Katarina Borovickova & Fernando Alvarez, 2015. "The Accelerated Failure Time Model: Estimation and Testing using Price Change and Labor Market Data," 2015 Meeting Papers 1434, Society for Economic Dynamics.
  13. Katarina Borovickova & Fernando Alvarez & Robert Shimer, 2014. "The net benefit from employment and duration dependence in the exit rate from unemployment," 2014 Meeting Papers 1149, Society for Economic Dynamics.
  14. Robert Shimer, 2013. "Private Information and the Mortgage Market: Evidence and a Theory of Crises," Working Papers Central Bank of Chile 716, Central Bank of Chile.
  15. Robert Shimer & Veronica Guerrieri, 2013. "Markets with Multidimensional Private Information," 2013 Meeting Papers 210, Society for Economic Dynamics.
  16. Veronica Guerrieri & Robert Shimer, 2012. "Dynamic Adverse Selection: A Theory of Illiquidity, Fire Sales, and Flight to Quality," NBER Working Papers 17876, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  17. Robert Shimer & Fernando Alvarez, 2012. "Human Capital and Unemployment," 2012 Meeting Papers 888, Society for Economic Dynamics.
  18. Robert Shimer & Veronica Guerrieri, 2011. "Competitive Equilibrium in Asset Markets with Adverse Selection," 2011 Meeting Papers 565, Society for Economic Dynamics.
  19. Richard Rogerson & Robert Shimer, 2010. "Search in Macroeconomic Models of the Labor Market," NBER Working Papers 15901, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  20. Robert Shimer & Fernando Alvarez, 2009. "Unemployment and Human Capital," 2009 Meeting Papers 28, Society for Economic Dynamics.
  21. Veronica Guerrieri & Robert Shimer & Randall Wright, 2009. "Adverse Selection in Competitive Search Equilibrium," NBER Working Papers 14915, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  22. Fernando Alvarez & Robert Shimer, 2008. "Search and Rest Unemployment," NBER Working Papers 13772, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  23. Robert Shimer, 2007. "Plenary Session," 2007 Meeting Papers 1043, Society for Economic Dynamics.
  24. Robert Shimer, 2007. "Reassessing the Ins and Outs of Unemployment," NBER Working Papers 13421, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  25. Robert Shimer, 2006. "Stock-Flow Matching Model: A Quantitative Analysis," 2006 Meeting Papers 877, Society for Economic Dynamics.
  26. Robert Shimer & Ivan Werning, 2006. "Reservation Wages and Unemployment Insurance," NBER Working Papers 12618, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  27. Robert Shimer & Iván Werning, 2006. "On the Optimal Timing of Benefits with Heterogeneous Workers and Human Capital Depreciation," NBER Working Papers 12230, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  28. Robert Shimer & Ivan Werning, 2005. "Liquidity and Insurance for the Unemployed," NBER Working Papers 11689, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  29. Robert Shimer, 2005. "A Theory of the Matching Function," 2005 Meeting Papers 673, Society for Economic Dynamics.
  30. Robert Shimer, 2005. "Mismatch," NBER Working Papers 11888, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  31. Richard Rogerson & Robert Shimer & Randall Wright, 2004. "Search-Theoretic Models of the Labor Market-A Survey," NBER Working Papers 10655, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  32. Robert Shimer, 2004. "Business Cycles, Wage Setting, and Asymmetric Information," 2004 Meeting Papers 37, Society for Economic Dynamics.
  33. Robert Shimer, 2004. "The Consequences of Rigid Wages in Search Models," NBER Working Papers 10326, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  34. Robert Shimer, 2003. "The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies: Evidence and Theory," NBER Working Papers 9536, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  35. Robert Shimer, 2001. "The Assignment of Workers to Jobs In an Economy with Coordination Frictions," NBER Working Papers 8501, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  36. Katharine G. Abraham & Robert Shimer, 2001. "Changes in Unemployment Duration and Labor Force Attachment," NBER Working Papers 8513, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  37. Daron Acemoglu & Robert Shimer, 1999. "Productivity Gains from Unemployment Insurance," Working papers 99-29, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics.
  38. Robert Shimer, 1999. "The Impact of Young Workers on the Aggregate Labor Market," NBER Working Papers 7306, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  39. Shimer, R. & Smith, L., 1998. "Assortive Matching and Search," Papers 98-09, Michigan - Center for Research on Economic & Social Theory.
  40. Daron Acemoglu & Robert Shimer, 1998. "Holdups and Efficiency with Search Frictions," Working papers 98-14, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics.
  41. Acemoglu, Daron & Shimer, Robert, 1997. "Efficient Wage Dispersion," CEPR Discussion Papers 1572, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  42. Acemoglu, D. & Shimer, R., 1997. "Efficient Unemployment Insurance," Working papers 97-9, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics.

Articles

  1. Robert Shimer, 2022. "Comment," NBER Macroeconomics Annual, University of Chicago Press, vol. 36(1), pages 56-67.
  2. Farboodi, Maryam & Jarosch, Gregor & Shimer, Robert, 2021. "Internal and external effects of social distancing in a pandemic," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 196(C).
  3. Robert Shimer & Ivan Werning, 2019. "Efficiency and information transmission in bilateral trading," Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics, vol. 33, pages 154-176, July.
  4. Veronica Guerrieri & Robert Shimer, 2018. "Markets with Multidimensional Private Information," American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, American Economic Association, vol. 10(2), pages 250-274, May.
  5. Robert Shimer, 2017. "Labor Markets," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 125(6), pages 1834-1840.
  6. Veronica Guerrieri & Robert Shimer, 2014. "Dynamic Adverse Selection: A Theory of Illiquidity, Fire Sales, and Flight to Quality," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 104(7), pages 1875-1908, July.
  7. David Cutler & Amy Finkelstein & Adriana Lleras-Muney & James Poterba & David Romer & Robert Shimer, 2013. "Report: Ad Hoc Search Committee for the Editor of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 103(3), pages 774-774, May.
  8. Robert Shimer, 2013. "private information in the mortgage market: evidence and a theory of crises," Journal Economía Chilena (The Chilean Economy), Central Bank of Chile, vol. 16(2), pages 68-95, August.
  9. Robert Shimer, 2013. "Comment," NBER Macroeconomics Annual, University of Chicago Press, vol. 27(1), pages 78-84.
  10. Robert Shimer, 2012. "Reassessing the Ins and Outs of Unemployment," Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics, vol. 15(2), pages 127-148, April.
  11. Shimer, Robert, 2012. "Wage rigidities and jobless recoveries," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 59(S), pages 65-77.
  12. Fernando Alvarez & Robert Shimer, 2011. "Search and Rest Unemployment," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 79(1), pages 75-122, January.
  13. Ebrahimy, Ehsan & Shimer, Robert, 2010. "Stock-flow matching," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 145(4), pages 1325-1353, July.
  14. Veronica Guerrieri & Robert Shimer & Randall Wright, 2010. "Adverse Selection in Competitive Search Equilibrium," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 78(6), pages 1823-1862, November.
  15. Robert Shimer, 2009. "Convergence in Macroeconomics: The Labor Wedge," American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, American Economic Association, vol. 1(1), pages 280-297, January.
  16. Robert Shimer & Ivan Werning, 2008. "Liquidity and Insurance for the Unemployed," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 98(5), pages 1922-1942, December.
  17. Shimer, Robert, 2008. "Comment on: "New Keynesian perspectives on labor market dynamics" by Tommy Sveen and Lutz Weinke," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 55(5), pages 931-935, July.
  18. Robert Shimer, 2008. "The Probability of Finding a Job," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 98(2), pages 268-273, May.
  19. Robert Shimer & Iván Werning, 2007. "Reservation Wages and Unemployment Insurance," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 122(3), pages 1145-1185.
  20. Robert Shimer, 2007. "Daron Acemoglu: 2005 John Bates Clark Medalist," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 21(1), pages 191-208, Winter.
  21. Robert Shimer, 2006. "Mismatch," Proceedings, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
  22. Shimer, Robert, 2006. "On-the-job search and strategic bargaining," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 50(4), pages 811-830, May.
  23. Robert Shimer, 2005. "The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 95(1), pages 25-49, March.
  24. Robert Shimer, 2005. "The cyclicality of hires, separations, and job-to-job transitions," Review, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, vol. 87(Jul), pages 493-508.
  25. Robert Shimer, 2005. "Discussion of Robert E. Hall's REStat Lecture "Employment Efficiency and Sticky Wages: Evidence from Flows in the Labor Market"," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 87(3), pages 408-410, August.
  26. Robert Shimer, 2005. "The Assignment of Workers to Jobs in an Economy with Coordination Frictions," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 113(5), pages 996-1025, October.
  27. Robert Shimer, 2004. "The Consequences of Rigid Wages in Search Models," Journal of the European Economic Association, MIT Press, vol. 2(2-3), pages 469-479, 04/05.
  28. Robert Shimer, 2002. "The Research Agenda: Labor Market Frictions and Business Cycles," EconomicDynamics Newsletter, Review of Economic Dynamics, vol. 4(1), November.
  29. Shimer Robert & Smith Lones, 2001. "Matching, Search, and Heterogeneity," The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, De Gruyter, vol. 1(1), pages 1-18, April.
  30. Robert Shimer, 2001. "The Impact of Young Workers on the Aggregate Labor Market," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 116(3), pages 969-1007.
  31. Robert Shimer & Lones Smith, 2000. "Assortative Matching and Search," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 68(2), pages 343-370, March.
  32. Daron Acemoglu & Robert Shimer, 2000. "Wage and Technology Dispersion," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 67(4), pages 585-607.
  33. Acemoglu, Daron & Shimer, Robert, 2000. "Productivity gains from unemployment insurance," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 44(7), pages 1195-1224, June.
  34. Acemoglu, Daron & Shimer, Robert, 1999. "Holdups and Efficiency with Search Frictions," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 40(4), pages 827-849, November.
  35. Daron Acemoglu & Robert Shimer, 1999. "Efficient Unemployment Insurance," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 107(5), pages 893-928, October.

Chapters

  1. Robert Shimer, 2021. "Comment on "Why Has the US Economy Recovered So Consistently from Every Recession in the Past 70 Years?"," NBER Chapters, in: NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2021, volume 36, pages 56-67, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Robert Shimer, 2014. "Private Information in the Mortgage Market: Evidence and a Theory of Crises," Central Banking, Analysis, and Economic Policies Book Series, in: Sofía Bauducco & Lawrence Christiano & Claudio Raddatz (ed.),Macroeconomic and Financial Stability: challenges for Monetary Policy, edition 1, volume 19, chapter 4, pages 117-150, Central Bank of Chile.
  3. Robert Shimer, 2012. "Comment on "Does Indivisible Labor Explain the Difference between Micro and Macro Elasticities? A Meta-Analysis of Extensive Margin Elasticities"," NBER Chapters, in: NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2012, Volume 27, pages 78-84, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  4. Rogerson, Richard & Shimer, Robert, 2011. "Search in Macroeconomic Models of the Labor Market," Handbook of Labor Economics, in: O. Ashenfelter & D. Card (ed.), Handbook of Labor Economics, edition 1, volume 4, chapter 7, pages Pages: 61, Elsevier.
  5. Robert Shimer, 2010. "The Labor Wedge," Introductory Chapters, in: Labor Markets and Business Cycles, Princeton University Press.
  6. Robert Shimer, 2009. "Comment on "The Timing of Labor Market Expansions: New Facts and a New Hypothesis"," NBER Chapters, in: NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2008, Volume 23, pages 59-71, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  7. Robert Shimer, 1999. "Why Is the US Unemployment Rate So Much Lower?," NBER Chapters, in: NBER Macroeconomics Annual 1998, volume 13, pages 11-74, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

Books

  1. Robert Shimer, 2010. "Labor Markets and Business Cycles," Economics Books, Princeton University Press, edition 1, number 9217.

Editorship

  1. Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press.

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  1. NEP-DGE: Dynamic General Equilibrium (16) 2003-03-10 2004-02-29 2004-08-31 2006-01-01 2006-03-18 2006-05-20 2006-11-04 2007-09-24 2008-02-09 2009-04-25 2010-04-17 2017-04-02 2020-05-11 2020-06-29 2020-10-05 2022-03-28. Author is listed
  2. NEP-MAC: Macroeconomics (14) 2003-03-10 2006-01-01 2007-09-24 2008-02-09 2010-04-17 2016-05-08 2017-04-02 2017-12-18 2020-05-11 2020-09-28 2020-10-05 2021-02-22 2021-08-16 2022-03-28. Author is listed
  3. NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (10) 1999-09-17 1999-11-08 2005-10-15 2006-01-01 2006-03-18 2006-05-20 2006-11-04 2007-09-24 2008-02-09 2016-05-08. Author is listed
  4. NEP-CTA: Contract Theory and Applications (5) 2009-04-25 2012-03-08 2013-09-26 2014-12-13 2015-08-30. Author is listed
  5. NEP-IAS: Insurance Economics (5) 1999-11-08 2005-10-15 2006-03-18 2006-11-04 2022-03-14. Author is listed
  6. NEP-MIC: Microeconomics (4) 2013-09-26 2014-12-13 2015-08-30 2022-03-28
  7. NEP-MST: Market Microstructure (3) 2014-12-13 2016-09-25 2022-03-28
  8. NEP-LTV: Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty (2) 1998-08-24 2001-10-01
  9. NEP-PKE: Post Keynesian Economics (2) 1999-09-17 2016-05-08
  10. NEP-PUB: Public Finance (2) 1998-08-24 1999-11-15
  11. NEP-BEC: Business Economics (1) 2010-04-17
  12. NEP-CDM: Collective Decision-Making (1) 1998-08-24
  13. NEP-DES: Economic Design (1) 2020-09-28
  14. NEP-ECM: Econometrics (1) 2021-08-16
  15. NEP-ETS: Econometric Time Series (1) 2016-05-08
  16. NEP-GEN: Gender (1) 2020-05-11
  17. NEP-GER: German Papers (1) 2015-08-30
  18. NEP-HEA: Health Economics (1) 2022-03-14
  19. NEP-HPE: History and Philosophy of Economics (1) 2004-08-31
  20. NEP-HRM: Human Capital and Human Resource Management (1) 2006-05-20
  21. NEP-ISF: Islamic Finance (1) 2021-08-16
  22. NEP-LMA: Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages (1) 2017-12-18
  23. NEP-MON: Monetary Economics (1) 2021-08-16
  24. NEP-NET: Network Economics (1) 2022-03-28
  25. NEP-ORE: Operations Research (1) 2021-08-16
  26. NEP-PBE: Public Economics (1) 1999-11-08
  27. NEP-SOC: Social Norms and Social Capital (1) 2022-03-14
  28. NEP-URE: Urban and Real Estate Economics (1) 2018-04-16

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