The American Economic Association and the economics profession were saddened to learn of the passing of Christopher Sims at age 83. Sims was a Nobel laureate and the John J. F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics at Princeton University. He was perhaps best known for his work on how economic shocks propagate through the macroeconomy, pioneering the use of vector autoregressions for answering questions about causal relationships between economic policies and different macroeconomic variables such as GDP, inflation, employment, and investments.

Sims was president of the AEA in 2012 and a Distinguished Fellow in 2013. To learn more about Sims and his contributions to the economics profession, see https://dof.princeton.edu/people/christopher-sims-0.