Biography:Yehuda Grunfeld
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Short description: Economist (c.1930 – 1960)
Yehuda Grunfeld | |
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| Born | 1929/1930 |
| Died | 1960 (aged 30) Israel |
| Cause of death | Drowning |
| Alma mater | U. of Chicago (Ph.D.) |
| Occupation | Econometrician |
Yehuda Grunfeld (also Grünfeld;[1] 1929/1930 – 1960)[2] was an econometrician in the late 1950s. Grunfeld's 1958 doctoral thesis at the University of Chicago (UChicago) is The Determinants of Corporate Investment; as of 2010, its appendix contained "one of the most widely used data sets in all of econometrics."[1] Two weeks before beginning his professorship at UChicago,[3] the 30-year-old drowned[1] while rescuing his son from an undertow off the coast of Israel.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kleiber, Christian; Zeileis, Achim (2010). "The Grunfeld Data at 50" (in en). German Economic Review (John Wiley & Sons) 11 (4): 404–417. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0475.2010.00513.x. ISSN 1465-6485. OCLC 231868508. https://eeecon.uibk.ac.at/~zeileis/papers/Kleiber+Zeileis-2010.pdf. Retrieved 2019-09-03.
- ↑ Backhouse, Roger; Middleton, Roger (2000). "Aggregation and the Functional Form" (in en). Exemplary Economists: North America. 1. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. 174–175. ISBN 1-85898-959-0.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Wharton Jr., Clifton R. (2015). "The Young Economist: The AIA, Dolores Duncan, and Chicago" (in en). Privilege and Prejudice: The Life of a Black Pioneer. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press. ISBN 978-1-61186-171-6.
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