Christopher A. Pissarides

Sir Christopher Antoniou Pissarides FBA is a Greek Cypriot economist. He is the School Professor of Economics amp Political Science and Regius Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. His research interests focus on several topics of macroeconomics, notably labour, economic growth, and economic policy. In 2010, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics, jointly with Peter A. Diamond and Dale Mortensen, for his contributions to the theory of search frictions and macroeconomics.

Pissarides was born in Nicosia, Cyprus into a Greek Orthodox family from the village of Agros.

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