Ariel Pakes

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Ariel Pakes (* 1949 in Edmonton , Alberta , Canada ) is an Israeli - American economist and university lecturer .

Career

Pakes studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , where he graduated two years after his Bachelor of Arts in 1973 with a Master of Arts . He then went to the United States and studied at Harvard University . After graduating here as a Master of Arts in 1976, a Ph.D. -Education. Briefly worked as a lecturer at Harvard , he returned to Jerusalem in 1980 to also work as a lecturer there. In the meantime he rose to Senior Lecturer, he moved back to the USA in 1986 and followed a call from the University of Wisconsin – Madison as Associate Professor . In 1988 Yale University appointed him full professor. Apart from visiting professorships, he taught and researched there until 1999, after which he returned to Harvard University. There he took over the Steven McArthur Heller Chair for Economics in 2005 .

Pake's work focuses on econometrics , industrial organization and the effects of technological developments. Together with research colleagues, he focuses in particular on the development of empirical models for describing effects within the industrial organization. He is involved in various specialist groups and committees at Harvard University, but also in specialist organizations such as the American Economic Association or the Econometric Society .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Awards. econometricsociety.org , accessed on August 16, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Pakes, Ariel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli-American economist
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Edmonton , Alberta , Canada