Edward E. Leamer

Edward Emory Leamer (born May 24, 1944) is a professor of economics and statistics at UCLA. He is Chauncey J. Medberry Professor of Management and director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast.[1]

Edward E. Leamer
Born (1944-05-24) May 24, 1944
NationalityAmerican
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Los Angeles
FieldEconometrics
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

He attended Princeton (B.A., mathematics, 1966) and the University of Michigan (M.A., mathematics, Ph.D., economics, 1970).[2]

Leamer is the author of 4 books and over 100 articles on a range of subjects especially including applied econometrics and quantitative international economics.

Leamer was the vice presidential nominee on Laurence Kotlikoff's independent ticket in the 2016 US presidential election.

Leamer is known amongst economists for his paper "Let's Take the Con Out of Econometrics",[3] widely referred to as Leamer's critique, which is said to have catalyzed the implementation of more rigorous research designs in the economic sciences.[4]

Selected publications
Books
  • 1978. Specification Searches: Ad Hoc Inference with Nonexperimental Data, Wiley. Chapter preview links.
  • 1985. Sources of International Comparative Advantage: Theory and Evidence, MIT Press. Description.
  • 2006. Quantitative International Economics (with Robert M. Stern). Aldine Transaction. Description and preview.
  • 2007. Handbook of Econometrics, Elsevier. Description and chapter-preview links for v. 6A & 6B (editor with James J. Heckman).
  • 2009. Macroeconomic Patterns and Stories, Springer. ISBN 3540463887 Description and preview.
Articles
  • 1980. "The Leontief Paradox, Reconsidered," Journal of Political Economy, 88(3), pp. 495-503. Reprinted in Jagdish N. Bhagwati, ed., 1987, International Trade: Selected Readings, MIT Press. pp. 115- 124.
  • 1983a. "Let's Take the Con Out of Econometrics," American Economic Review, 73(1), pp. 31-43.
  • 1983b. "Reporting the Fragility of Regression Estimates," (with Herman Leonard), Review of Economics and Statistics, 65(2), pp. 306-317.
  • 1985. "Sensitivity Analyses Would Help," American Economic Review, 75(3), pp. 308-313.
  • 1995. "International Trade Theory: The Evidence," ch. 26, Handbook of International Economics, v. 3, pp. 1339–1394. Abstract.
  • 1987. "Econometric Metaphors," in Advances in Econometrics, Truman F. Bewley, ed., Cambridge v. 2, pp. 1-28.
  • 2007a. "Housing is the Business Cycle," in Housing, Housing Finance, and Monetary Policy, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, pp. 149-233.
  • 2007b. "Linking the Theory with the Data: That is the Core Problem of International Economics," ch. 67, Handbook of Econometrics, v. 6A, pp 4587–4606. Abstract.
  • 2008. From The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. 2nd Edition. Abstract links:
  • 2010. "Tantalus on the Road to Asymptopia," Journal of Economic Perspectives, 24(2), pp. 31-46.

References
  1. "About Us | UCLA Anderson School of Management". www.anderson.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2020-07-24.
  2. Edward E. Leamer Home Page and CV Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Leamer, Edward E. (1983). "Let's Take the Con Out of Econometrics". The American Economic Review. 73 (1): 31–43. ISSN 0002-8282.
  4. "Edward Leamer Deserves a Nobel Prize for Improving Argumentation That Uses Statistics · Econ Journal Watch : Sensitivity analysis, econometrics, specification search, data mining, natural experiments, replication, statistical inference". econjwatch.org. Retrieved 2021-02-04. no-break space character in |title= at position 75 (help)
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