Erwin Diewert

Walter Erwin Diewert (* 1941 in Vancouver , British Columbia ) is a Canadian mathematician , economist and university professor .

Scientific career, research and teaching

Diewert studied mathematics at the University of British Columbia , where he graduated in 1963 as a Bachelor of Arts and in 1964 as a Master of Arts . He then switched to Ph.D. -Studied at the University of California, Berkeley , where he graduated in 1969. After he had already worked temporarily during his studies in the Ministry of Labor and Immigration , which was introduced in 1966 and led by Jean Marchand , he took on the role of an assistant professor at the University of Chicago after graduating . In 1970 he returned to the University of British Columbia as an Associate Professor , where he was promoted to Full Professor of Economics in 1975 . He later visited Stanford University .

Diewert is a member of various scientific organizations such as the American Economic Association , the American Statistical Association , the Canadian Economic Association and the Royal Economic Society . He is also a Fellow of the Econometric Society , the Royal Society of Canada and the World Academy of Productivity Science , and has been a Research Associate of the NBER since 1984 . Diewert has received several awards for his work, including the Killiam Prize in 2004 and the Doug Purvis Prize in 2005 .

Diewert has excelled in various research areas related to the economic application of mathematical methods. His areas of interest include areas of application of the theory of duality , dealing with the general equilibrium model , indices, measurement of welfare, functionals in household theory , nonparametric statistics with a focus on smoothing functions and economic activity under uncertainty. He has written basic books on business-mathematical modeling.

Web links

• Official website at the University of British Columbia