Ebook: Econometrics in Theory and Practice: Festschrift for Hans Schneeweiß
Author: Chi-Lun Cheng John W. Van Ness (auth.) Prof. Dr. Robert Galata Prof. Dr. Helmut Küchenhoff (eds.)
- Tags: Econometrics
- Year: 1998
- Publisher: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Hans SchneeweiB is- one of the best-known German econometricians and statisticians. He was born in Glatz, Silesia, on March 13, 1933. Hans SchneeweiB studied mathematics and physics and received his Ph. D. degree from the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University, Frankfurt, in 1960. He was member of the academic staff of the Faculty of Law and Economics of the Saar University between 1959 and 1965. Following his Habilitation in 1964, he was appointed to the chair of Statistics and Econometrics at the same university. As a visiting professor he worked at the Institute for Aca demic Studies in Vienna in 1967 and at the Department of Statistics of the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 1970/71. He has been a full professor of Econometrics and Statistics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Mu nich since 1973. His extensive research activities abroad included important projects in Waterloo, Vienna, Dundee (Scotland), Sidney, China, Kiev. During the more than 40 years of his academic work he has published outstanding, original articles on econometrics and statistics. To give an ex ample, it is his research on decision theory which has marked developments in this field. His book Entscheidungskriterien bei Risiko, published in 1967, is an excellent starting for anyone looking for an introduction to the complex iSsues involved.
This "Festschrift" is published to honour the academic career of Hans Schneeweiß, who celebrates his 65th birthday in Spring 1998. The individual chapters contain contributions by his friends and colleagues to the areas in which he himself has excelled and stimulated further research. Econometrics in Theory and Practice is a collection of survey articles and research papers from the field of theoretical and applied econometrics. It contains articles on errors-in-variables, decision theory and statistics which show the current status of research in these areas. The book addresses all those concerned with the topics mentioned in their own work.