Robert Shiller

Economist

Robert Shiller is the Arthur M Okun Professor of Economics at Yale University and is a Fellow at the Yale School of Management's Yale International Center for Finance. After receiving an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and a PhD in economics from MIT, he held a number of faculty positions at institution such as the University of Minnesota and the Wharton School. He has taught at Yale since the mid 1980s. Shiller's research focuses on behavioural economics, and he and fellow economist Richard Thaler have organised behavioural economics workshops. In 2009, he was awarded the Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics for his work on financial economics.

Shiller is author of a number of books, including the 2000 New York Times bestseller Irrational Exuberance and Animal Spirits (2009, with George Akerlof).