Christopher Pissarides

Sir Christopher Pissarides is the Regius Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and the Professor of European Studies at the University of Cyprus. He is a macroeconomist who specialises in the economics of labour markets. He has written extensively in professional journals, magazines and the press and his book Equilibrium Unemployment Theory is an influential reference in the economics of unemployment that has been translated into many languages. He was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics, jointly with Dale Mortensen of Northwestern University and Peter Diamond of MIT, for his work on markets with frictions. Prior to that, in 2005, he became one of the first economists worldwide to win the IZA Prize in Labor Economics, sharing it again with his collaborator Dale Mortensen. He is an elected Fellow of several Academies and he is a Lifetime Honorary Member of the American Economic Association. He has been honoured by several universities and governments worldwide and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2013.

Articles

China’s Mobility Barriers and Employment Allocations

Mar 07, 2018

Christopher Pissarides