Robert Shimer is the department chair and the Alvin H. Baum Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago. Prior to joining the Chicago faculty in 2003, he taught at Princeton University. He received his doctorate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Shimer is a research associate in the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow for IZA Institute of Labor Economics, a consultant at the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and Chicago, an International Fellow at the