Prices, Panics, and Purpose
Economics matters because people matter. Studying recessions, inflation, central banks, policy, and growth is a way of asking how we can help people and places flourish.
Eric Sims
William J. and Dorothy K. O'Neill Professor and Chair of Economics
College of Arts and Letters
About the Lecturer
Eric Sims is a professor of economics at Notre Dame, where he has taught since 2009. He is a macroeconomist whose research focuses on business cycles and monetary and fiscal policies. His research has been published in the American Economic Review, the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and several other scholarly journals. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. At Notre Dame he teaches classes in macroeconomics and monetary policy at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. In 2023, he was named the recipient of the Sheedy Excellence in Teaching Award, the highest teaching honor in the College of Arts and Letters.