Gerhard Tintner

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Gerhard Tintner
Born(1907-09-29)29 September 1907
Austrian American
Academic career
InstitutionsIowa State University
University of Southern California
FieldEconometrics
Alma materUniversity of Vienna
Doctoral
advisor
Ludwig von Mises
Doctoral
students
Richard Loree Anderson
Clifford Hildreth
Robert Basmann
InfluencesOskar Morgenstern

Gerhard Tintner (29 September 1907 – 13 November 1983) was an Austrian economist who worked most of his career in the United States. Tintner is known for his contributions during the formation years of econometrics as a discipline.[1][2] In a festschrift in honor of Tintner's 60th birthday, Karl A. Fox lauded Tintner as one of the "foremost econometricians of our time."[3]

Born to

Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[6]
He remained at Iowa State until 1962, when he resigned to join the staff of the
Vienna University of Technology, a position he held until retirement.[7]

Selected publications

  • Tintner, G. (1952). Econometrics. John Wiley & Sons, New York and Chapman & Hall, London
  • Tintner, G. (1941). The theory of choice under subjective risk and uncertainty. Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society, 298-304.
  • Tintner, G. (1946). A note on welfare economics. Econometrica, Journal of the Econometric Society, 69-78.
  • Tintner, G. (1953). The definition of econometrics. Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society, 31-40.

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