Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 4:30 – 5:30 PM EDT

As a Halle Distinguished Fellow, 2011 Nobel Laureate Chris Sims will deliver a free public lecture on statistical modeling of monetary policy on Tuesday, April 3 at Emory University. This event is free and open to the public, but guests should register to attend by Monday, April 2.

Sims will discuss the evolution since around 1950 of our understanding of how monetary policy is determined and what its effects are, with attention toward the progress made in two interrelated strands of intellectual effort: the methodology of modeling and inference for economic time series, and the theory of policy influences on business cycle fluctuations.

Sims was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (along with Thomas J. Sargent) in 2011. Sims’s teaching and research interests focus on analyzing the economic causes and effects of monetary policy. Among other honors, Sims is president-elect of the American Economic Association, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard and has taught at Yale, the University of Minnesota, and Harvard.