Yehuda Grunfeld

Yehuda Grunfeld
Yehuda Grunfeld
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

Kleiber, Christian; Zeileis, Achim (2010). "The Grunfeld Data at 50" (PDF). German Economic Review. John Wiley & Sons. 11 (4): 404–417. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0475.2010.00513.x. ISSN 1465-6485. LCCN 00235260. OCLC 231868508. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2018-12-23. Retrieved 2019-09-03.
Backhouse, Roger; Middleton, Roger (2000). "Aggregation and the Functional Form". Exemplary Economists: North America. 1. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. 174–175. ISBN 1 85898 959 0.
Wharton Jr., Clifton R. (2015). "The Young Economist: The AIA, Dolores Duncan, and Chicago". 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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[2010_Grunfeld_Data_at_50-1] Kleiber, Christian; Zeileis, Achim (2010). "The Grunfeld Data at 50" (PDF). German Economic Review. John Wiley & Sons. 11 (4): 404–417. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0475.2010.00513.x. ISSN 1465-6485. LCCN 00235260. OCLC 231868508. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2018-12-23. Retrieved 2019-09-03.

[2000_Exemplary_Economists_1-2] Backhouse, Roger; Middleton, Roger (2000). "Aggregation and the Functional Form". Exemplary Economists: North America. 1. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. 174–175. ISBN 1 85898 959 0.

[2015_Privilege_and_Prejudice-3] Wharton Jr., Clifton R. (2015). "The Young Economist: The AIA, Dolores Duncan, and Chicago". Privilege and Prejudice: The Life of a Black Pioneer. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press. ISBN 978-1-61186-171-6.