RISE Lecture Series -- Nobel Laureate Economist Chris Sims - "How to Worry About Government Debt"

Economist Chris Sims presents the spring 2019 Rice Initiative for the Study of Economics (RISE) Nobel Laureate Lecture. His talk, “How to Worry About Government Debt,” took place in Duncan Hall’s McMurtry Auditorium at Rice University in Houston, Texas on March 21, 2019.

A recipient of the 2011 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences along with Thomas Sargent for “empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy,” Sims earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and a doctorate in economics from Harvard University. He has taught at Harvard, Yale and Princeton and is a fellow of the Econometric Society, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He has published numerous papers on econometrics and macroeconomic theory and policy.

The RISE Nobel Laureate Lecture Series is made possible by a gift from Rice Trustee Emeritus Doyle Arnold ’70.