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- CASE Centre for Applied Statistics and Economics, Humboldt University, Berlin
| Dates: | October 24-25, 2011 |
| Description: | Hermann Otto Hirschfeld Lecture Series 2011 "Specification and Estimation of Individual Heterogeneity in Econometric Models" - Jerry A. Hausman - Professor of Economics at MIT in Cambridge |
| Location: | Berlin, Heilig-Geist-Kapelle Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany |
| Subject: | The Lecture Series is named after a remarkable German American scientist Hermann Otto Hirschfeld. As a brilliant statistician he was the 74th president of the ASA (American Statistical Association). He had a lot of earnings in establishing statistics as an important scientific area at American universities. Jerry A. Hausman is the John and Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Professor Hausman academic research has been in a number of areas. He has published numerous papers in econometrics and applied microeconomics. His recent applied research has been in differentiated products and in telecommunications. Professor Hausman has previously done research in the effects of taxation on the economy, the economics of aging, and in energy and environmental economics. His recent applied papers are on topics including the effect of new goods on economic welfare and their measurement in the CPI, new telecommunications technologies including cellular 3G and broadband, regulation of telecommunications and railroads, and competition in network markets. His recent econometrics papers include estimation of difference in difference models, semi-parametric duration models, weak instruments, and errors in variable in non-standard situations. [gemäß den Informationen des Anbieters - according to site editor's information] |
| JEL Code: | C |
| URL: | http://www.case.hu-berlin.de/events/HOH2011/index_html |