Biography:Matthew Shum

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Matthew Shum
InstitutionCalifornia Institute of Technology
FieldEconometrics
Alma materColumbia University (B.A.)
Stanford University (Ph.D.)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Matthew Shum is an American economist. He is the William D. Hacker Professor of Economics at the California Institute of Technology.[1]

Biography

Shum received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1992,[2] and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1996. He taught at the University of Toronto from 1998 to 2000 before moving to the faculty of Johns Hopkins University, where he taught until 2008. He began teaching at Caltech in 2008 and was the J. Stanley Johnson Professor of Economics from 2016 to 2022.[1]

Shum's research lies at the intersection between econometrics and the study of industrial organizations that involves applying statistical modeling to consumer and firm-level datasets. He was elected a fellow of the Econometric Society in 2021.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Matthew Shum | Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences". https://www.hss.caltech.edu/people/matthew-shum#profile-399c3458-tab. 
  2. Columbia College (Columbia University). Office of Alumni Affairs and Development; Columbia College (Columbia University) (1998). Columbia College today. Columbia University Libraries. New York, N.Y. : Columbia College, Office of Alumni Affairs and Development. http://archive.org/details/ldpd_12981092_039. 
  3. "Current Fellows" (in en). http://www.econometricsociety.org/society/organization-and-governance/fellows/current.