Yehuda Grunfeld

Yehuda Grunfeld (Grünfeld) (March 11, 1930 – July 16, 1960) was an Israeli economist. He created and used a well-known data set on firms' investment, which is one of the most widely used data sets in econometrics.

He received his B.A. degree and his M.A. degree at the Hebrew University in 1953 and 1955, respectively. In 1958, he received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. His career ended abruptly when he drowned on July 16, 1960 at the age of 30.^[1]

References

^ Christ, Carl F. (1963). Measurement in economics; studies in mathematical economics and econometrics in memory of Yehuda Grunfeld. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804701365. http://books.google.com/books?id=3S2sAAAAIAAJ&lpg=PR9&ots=ay2jeFOC5j&dq=Yehuda%20Grunfeld&pg=PR9#v=onepage&q&f=false.

Kleiber, Christian; Zeileis, Achim: The Grunfeld Data at 50, Research Report Series, Department of Statistics and Mathematics, Nr. 82, December 2008, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria.
Patinkin, Don: In Memoriam [Yehuda Grunfeld], Econometrica, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Jul., 1961), pp. 404–405.

Persondata
Name	Grunfeld, Yehuda
Alternative names
Short description	Israeli economist
Date of birth	March 11, 1930
Place of birth	Berlin, Germany
Date of death	July 16, 1960
Place of death