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Yehuda Grunfeld

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Not to be confused with Yehuda Gruenfeld.
Yehuda Grunfeld
Born(1930-03-11)March 11, 1930
DiedJuly 16, 1960(1960-07-16) (aged 30)
Israel
Education
OccupationEconometrician

Yehuda Grunfeld (also Grünfeld;[1] March 11, 1930 – July 16, 1960) was an econometrician in the late 1950s.

Personal life

Grunfeld was born on March 11, 1930.[2] On July 16, 1960,[3] the 30-year-old drowned[1] while rescuing his son from an undertow off the coast of Israel.[4]

Career

At Hebrew University, Grunfeld received his Bachelor of Arts in 1953, and his Master of Arts in 1955, both in economics.[3]

From 1957–58, Grunfeld was an assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago (UChicago).[3] His 1958 doctoral thesis at UChicago is The Determinants of Corporate Investment; as of 2010, its appendix contained "one of the most widely used data sets in all of econometrics."[1] In 1959, his Journal of Business article was given the McKinsey Award. By 1960, he was a lecturer of economics and statistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,[3] and scheduled to become a professor at UChicago at the end of July.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c Kleiber, Christian; Zeileis, Achim (2010). "The Grunfeld Data at 50" (PDF). German Economic Review. 11 (4). John Wiley & Sons: 404–417. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0475.2010.00513.x. ISSN 1465-6485. LCCN 00235260. OCLC 231868508. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2018-12-23. Retrieved 2019-09-03.
  2. ^ Grunfeld, Yehuda (1958-05-23). The Determinants of Corporate Investment (Thesis). University of Chicago. Archived from the original on 2021-08-04. Retrieved 2021-08-20.
  3. ^ a b c d Patinkin, Don (July 1961). "In Memoriam". Econometrica. 29 (3). Econometric Society: 404–405. ISSN 0012-9682. JSTOR 00129682. LCCN 34016980. OCLC 01567366. Retrieved 2021-08-20.
  4. ^ a b Wharton Jr., Clifton R. (2015). "The Young Economist: The AIA, Dolores Duncan, and Chicago". Privilege and Prejudice: The Life of a Black Pioneer. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press. ISBN 978-1-61186-171-6.
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