Lawrence R. Klein (1920-)

Premio Nobel  1980

Lawrence R. Klein es un economista estadounidense que obtuvo el Premio Nobel de Economía en 1980 por la creación de modelos econométricos y la aplicación al análisis de las fluctuaciones económicas y políticas económicas.

Nacido en Omaha, Nebraska, estudió en la Universidad de California y se doctoró en el Massachussetts Institute of Technology. Ha sido docente en las Universidades de Michigan (1949-54), Oxford (1954-58) y en la de Pennsylvania. Trabajó para la Cowles Commission (1944-1947). Es especialista en econometría, estadística, ciclos económicos, comercio internacional e integración económica.

OBRAS

"Pitfalls in the Statistical Determination of the Investment Schedule", 1943, Econometrica 
"Macroeconomics and the Theory of Rational Behavior", 1946, Econometrica. 
"Remarks on the Theory of Aggregation", 1946, Econometrica. 
"A Post-Mortem on the Transition Predictions of National Product", 1946, JPE 
The Keynesian Revolution, 1947. 
"Theories of Effective Demand and Employment", 1947, JPE 
"The Use of Econometric Models to Guide Economic Policy", 1947, Econometrica 

"A Constant-Utility Index of the Cost of Living", with H. Rubin, 1947-8, RES 
Economic Fluctuations in the United States, 1921-1941, 1950. 
"Stock and Flow Analysis in Economics", 1950, Econometrica. 
"Assets, Debts and Economic Behavior", 1951, in Studies in Income and Wealth 
"Studies in Investment Behavior", 1951, NBER Conference on Business Cycles 
"Estimating Patterns of Savings Behavior from Sample Survey Data", 1951, Econometrica 
"On the Interpretation of Professor Leontief's System", 1953, RES 
A Textbook of Econometrics, 1953. 
"Statistical Estimation of Economic Relations from Survey Data", 1954, in Contributions of Survey Methods to Economics 
"The Empirical Foundations of Keynesian Economics", 1954, in Kurihara, editor, Post Keynesian Economics 
An Econometric Model of the United States, 1929-1952., with A.S. Golberger, 1955. 
"On the Interpretation of Theil's Method of Estimating Economic Relationships", 1955, Metroec 
"The Scope and Limitations of Econometrics", 1957, Applied Statistics. 
"The Estimation of Distributed Lags", 1958, Econometrica 
"Some Econometrics of the Determination of Absolute Prices and Wages", with R.J. Ball, 1959, EJ 
"The Efficiency of Estimation of Econometric Models", 1960, in Pfouts, editor, Essays in Economic and Econometrics 
"Single Equation versus Equation System Methods of Estimation in Econometrics", 1960, Econometrica 
"Some Econometrics of Growth: Great ratios of economics", with R.F. Kosobud, 1961, QJE 
An Econometric Model of the United Kingdom, 1962, with R.J. Ball, A. Hazelwood and P. Vandome. 
An Introduction to Econometrics, 1962. 
"An Econometric Model of Japan, 1930-1959", with Y. Shinkai, 1963. 
"Singularity in the Equation Systems of Econometrics: Some aspects of the problem of multicollinearity", with M. Nakamura, 1962, IER 
"Stocks and Flows in the Theory of Interest", 1965, in Hahn and Brechling, editors, Theory of Interest Rates. 
The Brookings Quarterly Econometric Model of the United States, with J.S. Duesenberry and G. Fromm, 1965 
"Some New Results in the Measurement of Capacity Utilization", with R.S. Preston, 1967, AER. 
"Nonlinear Estimation of Aggregate Production Functions", with R. Bodkin, 1967, REStat. 
"Stochastic Nonlinear Models", with R.S. Preston, 1969, Econometrica. 
"Estimation of Distributed Lags", with P. Dhrymes and K. Steiglitz, 1970, IER 
"Forecasting and Policy Evaluation using Large-Scale Econometric Models: the state of the art", 1971, in Intriligator, editor, Frontiers of Quantitative Economics 
"Whither Econometrics?", 1971, JASA 
"Dynamic Properties of Nonlinear Econometric Models", with E.P. Howrey, 1972, IER 
"A Comparison of Eleven Econometric Models of the United States", with G. Gromm, 1973, AER Int J of Methem Education in Science and Technol 
"Notes on Testing the Predictive Performance of Econometric Models", with E.P. Howrey and M.D. McCarthy, 1974, IER. 
"Supply Constraints in Demand-Oriented Systems: An interpretation of the oil crisis", 1974, ZfN. 
"Research Contributions of the SSRC-Brookings Econometric Model Project: A decade in review", 1975, in Fromm and Klein, editor, Brookings Model 
"Economic Policy Formation throgh the Medium of Econometric Models", 1977, in Intriligator, editor, Frontiers of Quantitative Economics, Vol. III 
"Money in a General Equilibrium System : Empirical aspects of the Quantity Theory", 1978, Econ App 
"The Supply Side", 1978, AER 
"Direct Estimates of Unemployment Rate and Capacity Utilization in Macroeconometric Models", with V. Su, 1979, IER 
An Introduction to Econometric Forecasting Models, with R.M. Young, 1980. 
"Economic Policy Formation: Theory and implementation", 1983, in Griliches and Intriligator, editors, Hanbook of Econometrics 
"Money in the Wharton Quarterly Model", with E.Friedman and S. Able, 1983, JMCB