Nobel Laureate Economist Professor Robert J. Shiller, was in Turkey on June 17

Şekerbank will host 2013 Nobel Laureate Economist Professor Robert J. Shiller

On June 17th, Şekerbank will host 2013 Nobel Laureate Economist Professor Robert J. Shiller, who is ranked among the world's most influential economists, in Turkey. A Yale University Sterling Professor - the university's highest academic rank - Professor Shiller will attend and deliver a speech at the “Financing Sustainable Development Conference” which is being organized within the scope of Şekerbank's 60th anniversary.

28.05.2014

Şekerbank, which was founded 60 years ago with the objective of pursuing economic development based on rural development and austerity and continues to fulfill its foundation mission today through financing sustainable development, is preparing to host a very important conference on June 17th, 2014. The bank's “Financing Sustainable Development Conference” which will be held in the Çırağan Palace, will feature the winner of the 2013 Nobel Economy Prize in Economic Sciences, Professor Robert J. Shiller, a Sterling Professor at Yale University. A Sterling Professorship is the highest academic rank at Yale University and is awarded to a limited number of faculty members who are considered to be the top in his or her field.

American economist Professor Robert James Shiller currently serves as a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and is ranked 79th out of 1,849 economists in the world who have made the most influential written contributions to the science of economy. Revered for his financial bubble foresights in the U.S., Shiller is also the founder of the S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index, which is one of the most important indexes in the real estate sector. The main subject matter of the articles he has worked on and published are financial markets, financial innovations, behavioral economics, real estate, statistical methods and the public's behavior, ideas and ethical judgments towards the market.

In 2013, Shiller was joined by Lars Peter Hansen and Eugene Fama in winning the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their “empirical analysis of asset prices”.