Biography:Takeshi Amemiya

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Short description: American economist
Takeshi Amemiya
雨宮 健
Born (1935-03-29) March 29, 1935 (age 88)
NationalityJapan ese
Alma materJohns Hopkins University
Scientific career
FieldsEconomics
InstitutionsStanford University
Doctoral advisorCarl F. Christ
Doctoral studentsJames L. Powell
Cheng Hsiao
Victor Chernozhukov

Takeshi Amemiya (雨宮 健, Amemiya Takeshi, born 29 March 1935, in Tokyo, Japan) is an economist specializing in econometrics and the economy of ancient Greece.[1]

Amemiya is the Edward Ames Edmonds Professor of Economics (emeritus) and a Professor of Classics at Stanford University. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the American Statistical Association[2] and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1985).[3]

Education

  • B.A., 1958, Social Science, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan
  • M.A., 1961, Economics, American University, Washington, DC
  • Ph.D., 1964, Economics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

Honors and awards

  • U.S. Scientist Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 1988
  • Fellowship, Japan Society for Promotion of Science, 1989
  • Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, 1975–1976
  • Ford Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in Economics, Johns Hopkins University, 1963–1965

Publications

Books

Chapter in book

Selected journal articles

  • Amemiya, Takeshi; Fuller, Wayne A. (1967). "A Comparative Study of Alternative Estimators in a Distributed Lag Model". Econometrica 35 (3–4): 509–529. doi:10.2307/1905652. 
  • Amemiya, Takeshi; Wu, Roland Y. (1972). "The Effect of Aggregation on Prediction in the Autoregressive Model". Journal of the American Statistical Association 67 (339): 628–632. doi:10.2307/2284454. 
  • Amemiya, Takeshi (1973). "Generalized Least Squares with an Estimated Autocovariance Matrix". Econometrica 41 (4): 723–732. doi:10.2307/1914092. 
  • Amemiya, Takeshi (1973). "Regression Analysis when the Dependent Variable Is Truncated Normal". Econometrica 41 (6): 997–1016. doi:10.2307/1914031. 
  • Amemiya, Takeshi (1974). "Multivariate Regression and Simultaneous Equation Models when the Dependent Variables Are Truncated Normal". Econometrica 42 (6): 999–1012. doi:10.2307/1914214. 
  • Amemiya, Takeshi (1977). "The Maximum Likelihood and the Nonlinear Three-Stage Least Squares Estimator in the General Nonlinear Simultaneous Equation Model". Econometrica 45 (4): 955–968. doi:10.2307/1912684. 
  • Amemiya, Takeshi (1979). "The Estimation of a Simultaneous-Equation Tobit Model". International Economic Review 20 (1): 169–181. doi:10.2307/2526423. 
  • Amemiya, Takeshi (1980). "Selection of Regressors". International Economic Review 21 (2): 331–354. doi:10.2307/2526185. 
  • Amemiya, Takeshi; MaCurdy, Thomas E. (1986). "Instrumental-Variable Estimation of an Error-Components Model". Econometrica 54 (4): 869–880. doi:10.2307/1912840. 

References

  1. Backhouse, Roger; Middleton, Roger, eds (2000). "Takeshi Amemiya b 1935". Exemplary Economists: North America. 1. Edward Elgar. pp. 311–22. ISBN 1-78254-311-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=SHnGSiiK4dUC&pg=PA311. 
  2. Powell, James L. (6 December 2006). "The ET Interview: Takeshi Amemiya". Econometric Theory 23: 155–181. doi:10.1017/S0266466607070065. 
  3. "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterA.pdf. 

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