Ariél S. Pakes | |
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Born | 1949 |
Institution |
Harvard University Yale University University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Alma mater |
Harvard University Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Doctoral advisor |
Zvi Griliches |
Doctoral students |
Steven T. Berry Samuel S. Kortum Matthew Gentzkow Emi Nakamura |
Awards | Frisch Medal (1988) |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc |
Ariél Stanley Pakes (born 1949) is the Steven McArthur Heller Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He specializes in econometrics and industrial organization. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a winner of the Frisch Medal.
He is most famous for the Berry Levinsohn Pakes (BLP) approach to demand estimation and the Olley and Pakes approach to estimation of production functions.
He received his B.A. and M.A. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1971 and 1973 and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard in 1976 and 1979.