Professor Chris Pissarides
Professor Chris Pissarides is Professor of Economics at LSE and holder of the Norman Sosnow Chair in Economics. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2010, jointly with Peter Diamond from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Dale Mortensen from Northwestern University for their work on the economics of unemployment, especially job flows and the effects of being out of work.
Research Interests
Chris specialises in the economics of unemployment, labour-market theory, labour-market policy and more recently he has written about growth and structural change. He has written extensively in professional journals and his book Equilibrium Unemployment Theory, now in its second edition, is a standard reference in the economics of unemployment.
Additional Information
Chris was awarded his PhD at LSE in 1973 and has been on the faculty since. He is also a fellow of the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE and of the Centre for Economic Policy Research
He is an elected fellow of the British Academy, the Econometric Society, the European Economic Association and the Society of Labour Economists. He is also a member of Council of the European Economic Association and the Econometric Society and a former member of Council of the Royal Economic Society. In 2005 he was awarded the IZA Prize in Labour Economics (jointly with Dale Mortensen) for his work on unemployment and in 2008 he received the Republic of Cyprus “Aristeion” for the Arts, Literature and Science.
In 2009 he served as vice president of the European Economic Association, becoming president-elect in 2010 and president in 2011.