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Robert James Shiller, born March 29, 1946, is an American economist, academic, and author. As of 2022, he served as a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and is a fellow at the Yale School of Management's International Center for Finance. Shiller has been a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) since 1980, was vice president of the American Economic Association in 2005, its president-elect for 2016, and president of the Eastern Economic Association from 2006–2007.

He is also the co‑founder and chief economist of the investment management firm MacroMarkets LLC. Shiller was ranked by the IDEAS RePEc publications monitor in 2008 as among the 100 most influential economists in the world and was still on the list in 2019. Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen, and Shiller jointly received the 2013 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for their empirical analysis of asset prices."

Shiller was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Ruth R. (née Radsville) and Benjamin Peter Shiller, an engineer-cum-entrepreneur. He is of Lithuanian descent. He is married to Virginia Marie (Faulstich), a psychologist, and has two children. He was raised as a Methodist.Shiller attended Kalamazoo College for two years before transferring to the University of Michigan, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. degree in 1967.

He received his S.M. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1968 and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1972 with a thesis entitled Rational expectations and the structure of interest rates under the supervision of Franco Modigliani.

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