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Denis Sargan

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J. Denis Sargan
Born(1924-08-23)23 August 1924
Doncaster,Yorkshire,England, United Kingdom
Died13 April 1996(1996-04-13)(aged 71)
Theydon Bois,Essex,England, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
Academic career
FieldEconometrics
InstitutionLondon School of Economics
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Doctoral
students
Alok Bhargava,David Forbes Hendry,Esfandiar Maasoumi,Peter C.B. Phillips,Manuel Arellano

John Denis Sargan,FBA (23 August 1924 – 13 April 1996) was a British econometrician who specialized in the analysis of economictime-series.

Sargan was born inDoncaster,[1]Yorkshirein 1924, and was educated atDoncaster Grammar SchoolandSt John's College, Cambridge.[2]He made many contributions, notably ininstrumental variablesestimation,Edgeworth expansionsfor the distributions of econometric estimators, identification conditions insimultaneous equationsmodels,asymptotic testsforoveridentifying restrictionsinhomoskedasticequations andexact testsforunit rootsinautoregressiveandmoving averagemodels. At theLSE,Sargan was Professor of Econometrics from 1964–1984.[3]Sargan wasPresidentof theEconometric Society,a Fellow of theBritish Academy[4]and an (honorary foreign) member of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences.[3][5]

His influence on econometric methodology is evident in several fields including in the development ofGeneralized Method of Momentsestimators.

Selected publications

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  • Sargan, J. D. (1958). "The Estimation of Economic Relationships using Instrumental Variables".Econometrica.26(3): 393–415.doi:10.2307/1907619.JSTOR1907619.
  • Sargan, J. D. (1964). "Wages and Prices in the United Kingdom: A Study in Econometric Methodology", 16, 25–54. inEconometric Analysis for National Economic Planning,ed. by P. E. Hart, G. Mills, and J. N. Whittaker. London: Butterworths
  • Sargan, J. D. (1980). "Some Tests of Dynamic Specification for a Single Equation".Econometrica.48(4): 879–897.doi:10.2307/1912938.JSTOR1912938.

Published posthumously

  • Sargan, J. D. (2001). "The Choice Between Sets of Regressors." Econometric Reviews 20(2).
  • Sargan, J. D. (2001). "Model Building and Data Mining." Econometric Reviews 20(2): 159-170.
  • Sargan, J. D. (2003). "The Development of Econometrics at LSE in the Last 30 Years." Econometric Theory 19(3): 429-438.

References

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  1. ^Hendry, D. F. and P. C. B. Phillips (2017). "John Denis Sargan at the London School of Economics",Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 2082,Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, p. 1.[1]
  2. ^"SARGAN, Prof. John Denis".Who's Who & Who Was Who.Vol. 2018 (online ed.). A & C Black.(Subscription orUK public library membershiprequired.)
  3. ^ab"OBITUARY: Professor Denis Sargan".The Independent.18 April 1996.Retrieved23 June2023.
  4. ^Hendry, David; Phillips, Peter (2003).John Denis Sargan 1924-1996.Biographical Memoirs of Fellows II. Vol. 120. pp. 385–409.doi:10.5871/bacad/9780197263020.003.0019.ISBN9780197263020.{{cite book}}:|journal=ignored (help)
  5. ^Phillips, P. C.(2003). "Vision and influence in econometrics: John Denis Sargan".Econometric Theory.19(3): 495–512.CiteSeerX10.1.1.193.6587.doi:10.1017/S0266466603193085.S2CID122949584.

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