Jan Kmenta
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Kmenta at his CERGE-EI office | |
| Born |
January 3, 1928 Prague, Czechoslovakia |
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| Nationality |
United States Czech Republic |
| Institution | University of Michigan |
| Field | Econometrics |
School or tradition | Neoclassical economics |
| Alma mater |
Stanford University (PhD, 1964) University of Sydney (BSc, 1955) |
| Influences |
Kenneth Arrow Arthur Goldberger |
| Awards |
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Award Neuron award for lifetime achievements[1] |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Jan Kmenta (born January 3, 1928) is a Czech-American economist. Currently he is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Statistics at the University of Michigan,[2] and Visiting Professor at CERGE-EI in Prague.[3] He is the author of the acclaimed textbook Elements of Econometrics.
Early life
Jan Kmenta was a student of statistics at the Czech Technical University in Prague when the communist regime started in Czechoslovakia. Soon after he emigrated to Australia through Germany.[4] Jan Kmenta received his B.Ec with First Class Honors from the University of Sydney in 1955 and graduated from Stanford University with a Ph.D. in Economics with a minor in Statistics in 1964. Since 1989 he also holds an Honorary Doctorate from Saarland University, Germany. He joined the University of Michigan as a Full Professor in 1973.
Selected works
- Zellner, Arnold; Kmenta, Jan; Drèze, Jacques (1966). "Specification and Estimation of Cobb–Douglas Production Function Models". Econometrica 34 (4): 784–795. JSTOR 1910099.
- Kmenta, J. (1971). Elements of Econometrics. New York: Macmillan. (Also available in Spanish, Portuguese, Farsi, and Croatian)
- Kmenta, J.; Ramsey, James B., eds. (1981). Large-Scale Macro-Econometric Models: Theory and Practice. New York: North-Holland. ISBN 0-444-86295-1.
- Keener, Robert W.; Kmenta, Jan; Weber, Neville C. (1991). "Estimation of the Covariance Matrix of the Least-Squares Regression Coefficients When the Disturbance Covariance Matrix Is of Unknown Form". Econometric Theory 7 (1): 22–45. doi:10.1017/S0266466600004229.
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