Foundation. The Pissarides Review into the Future of Work and Wellbeing was launched in March 2022. Academic contributions Pissarides is mostly known for his contributions to the search and matching theory for studying the interactions between the labour market and the macro economy. He helped develop the concept of the matching function (explaining the flows from unemployment to employment at a given moment of time), and pioneered the empirical work on its estimation. Pissarides has also done research on structural change and growth. One of his most well-known papers is "Job Creation and Job Destruction in the Theory of Unemployment" (with Dale Mortensen), published in the Review of Economic Studies in 1994. The paper was built on the previous individual contributions that both authors had made over the previous two decades. The Mortensen–Pissarides model that resulted from the paper has been exceptionally influential in modern macroeconomics. In one or another of its extensions or variations, it is now part of the core of most graduate economics curricula throughout the world. Pissarides's book Equilibrium Unemployment Theory, a standard reference in the literature of the macroeconomics of unemployment, is now in its second edition and was revised after his joint work with Mortensen resulted in the analysis of both endogenous job creation and destruction. Awards and honours Fellow of the Econometric Society, 1997 Fellow of the British Academy, 2002 Fellow of the European Economic Association, 2005 IZA Prize in Labor Economics, jointly with Dale Mortensen, 2005 Foreign Honorary Member of the American Economic Association, 2011 Vice-president of the European Economic Association, President in 2011 Nobel Prize in Economics in 2010, jointly with Dale Mortensen, Peter A. Diamond, for "analysis of markets with search frictions" The College Historical Society of Trinity College Dublin awarded Pissarides its Gold Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Public Discourse in 2012 In 2013, Knighted in the 2013 Birthday Honours for "services to economics." Member of the Academy of Athens, 2015 Selected works Description and chapter-preview links. References External links Christopher A Pissarides personal page at London School of Economics Christopher Pissarides' personal website including the Nobel lecture on 8 December 2010 Equilibrium in the Labour Market with Search Frictions Profile and Papers at Research Papers in Economics/RePEc Christopher Pissarides commemorative postage stamp issued from the Cyprus Post Office, 8 June 2011 1948 births Living people Cypriot Nobel laureates Cypriot economists Labor economists Members of the Academy of Athens