Edward Emory Leamer(born May 24, 1944) is a professor of economics and statistics atUCLA.He is Chauncey J. Medberry Professor of Management and director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast.[1]
Edward E. Leamer | |
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Born | May 24, 1944 |
Nationality | American |
Academic career | |
Field | Econometrics |
Institutions | University of California, Los Angeles |
Alma mater | University of Michigan |
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He attended Princeton (B.A., mathematics, 1966) and the University of Michigan (M.A., mathematics, Ph.D., economics, 1970).[2]
Leamer is the author of 4 books and over 100 articles on a range of subjects especially including appliedeconometricsand quantitativeinternational economics.
Leamer was thevice presidentialnominee onLaurence Kotlikoff's independent ticket in the2016 US presidential election.
Leamer is known amongst economists for his paper "Let's Take the Con Out of Econometrics",[3]widely referred to as Leamer's critique, which is said to have catalyzed the implementation of more rigorous research designs in the economic sciences.[4]
Selected publications
edit- Books
- 1978.Specification Searches: Ad Hoc Inference with Nonexperimental Data,Wiley. Chapter previewlinks.
- 1985.Sources of International Comparative Advantage: Theory and Evidence,MIT Press.Description.
- 2006.Quantitative International Economics(with Robert M. Stern). Aldine Transaction.Descriptionandpreview.
- 2007.Handbook of Econometrics,Elsevier.Descriptionand chapter-preview links for v.6A&6B(editor withJames J. Heckman).
- 2009.Macroeconomic Patterns and Stories,Springer.ISBN3540463887Descriptionandpreview.
- Articles
- 1980. "The Leontief Paradox, Reconsidered,"Journal of Political Economy,88(3), pp.495-503. Reprinted inJagdish N. Bhagwati,ed., 1987,International Trade: Selected Readings,MIT Press. pp.115-124.
- 1983a. "Let's Take the Con Out of Econometrics,"American Economic Review,73(1), pp.31-43.
- 1983b. "Reporting the Fragility of Regression Estimates," (with Herman Leonard),Review of Economics and Statistics,65(2), pp.306-317.
- 1985. "Sensitivity Analyses Would Help,"American Economic Review,75(3), pp.308-313.
- 1995. "International Trade Theory: The Evidence," ch. 26,Handbook of International Economics,v. 3, pp. 1339–1394.Abstract.
- 1987. "Econometric Metaphors," inAdvances in Econometrics,Truman F. Bewley, ed., Cambridge v. 2, pp.1-28.
- 1999. "Effort, Wages and the International Division of Labor,"Journal of Political Economy,Vol. 107, Number 6, Part 1.[5]
- 2001. "The Economic Geography of the Internet Age,"Journal of International Business Studies,32, 4.[6]
- 2007a. "Housingisthe Business Cycle, "inHousing, Housing Finance, and Monetary Policy,Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, pp.149-233Archived2016-03-13 at theWayback Machine.
- 2007b. "Linking the Theory with the Data: That is the Core Problem of International Economics," ch. 67,Handbook of Econometrics,v. 6A, pp 4587–4606.Abstract.
- 2007c. "A Flat World, A Level Playing Field, A Small World After All, or None of the Above? A Review of Thomas L. Friedman's The World is Flat,"Journal of Economic Literature.[7]
- 2008. FromThe New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics.2nd Edition. Abstract links:
- 2010. "Tantalus on the Road to Asymptopia,"Journal of Economic Perspectives,24(2), pp.31-46.
References
edit- ^"About Us | UCLA Anderson School of Management".www.anderson.ucla.edu.Retrieved2020-07-24.
- ^Edward E. Leamer Home PageandCVArchived2015-04-02 at theWayback Machine
- ^Leamer, Edward E. (1983)."Let's Take the Con Out of Econometrics".The American Economic Review.73(1): 31–43.ISSN0002-8282.JSTOR1803924.
- ^"Edward Leamer Deserves a Nobel Prize for Improving Argumentation That Uses Statistics · Econ Journal Watch: Sensitivity analysis, econometrics, specification search, data mining, natural experiments, replication, statistical inference".econjwatch.org.Retrieved2021-02-04.
- ^"Leamer".15 June 2021.
- ^"Leamer".15 June 2021.
- ^"Leamer".15 June 2021.