Zvi Griliches

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Zvi Griliches
Born(1930-09-12)12 September 1930
Kaunas, Lithuania
Died4 November 1999(1999-11-04) (aged 69)
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Academic career
FieldEconomics
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
UC Berkeley
InfluencesArnold Harberger
ContributionsTheoretical and applied econometrics
AwardsJohn Bates Clark Medal (1965)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Hirsh Zvi Griliches (

Hirsch index
of 49, which places him into 2% of most productive economics professors in the USA.

Biography

He was born in

B.S. in Agricultural Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and then a Ph.D. in economics at the University of Chicago, supervised by Theodore Schultz
.

In his classic 1957 Ph.D. dissertation, Hybrid Corn: An Exploration in the Economics of Technological Change, published as an article in the October 1957 issue of

logistic curve. It was found later through multiple examples by Edwin Mansfield and other researchers that this is a general rule for technological change / diffusion of innovations
. The dissertation was one of the first scientific works that treated the development of new technology as an economic phenomenon. Previously, economists had treated it as exogenous.

Most innovations either make production more efficient, or improve the quality of goods. The analysis of measurement of the impact of innovations on economics led Griliches to his fundamental studies of economic growth, productivity, production function, consumption function, measurements of economic input and output, hedonic prices, and their reflection in price indices.

Griliches also published important works of econometrics, including distributed lags (time series) and aggregation. He was particularly interested in the measurements of hidden variables.

Griliches served as the President of the Econometric Society in 1975, and as the President of the American Economic Association in 1993. From 1969 to 1977 he was one of editors of the journal Econometrica. He served on the Stigler Commission in 1961 and the Boskin Commission in 1996, both of which were convened by the United States Senate to evaluate the measurement of inflation.

In 1965, Zvi Griliches won the prestigious

American Agricultural Economics Association
. He died on November 4, 1999, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Memorials and tributes

The Zvi Griliches Research Data Center[3] was established in his memory at the Samuel Neaman Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology in Israel. The Zvi Griliches Excellence Award[4] was established by the Economics Education and Research Consortium (EERC) in Russia and other former Soviet Union countries.

The Zvi Griliches Research Seminar in the Economics of Innovation

Barcelona Graduate School of Economics
to promote interactions between academic researchers, innovation policy practitioners, statistical office analysts and PhD students with a general interest in analyzing technological innovation from an economic point of view.

In 2001, in the memory of Zvi Griliches, the International Advisory Board of the New Economic School, with the full approval of the entire NES community, decided to establish an annual series of lectures in economics. "The Zvi Griliches Memorial Lectures" are presented by leading scholars and open for everyone.

References

Notes

  1. ^ NY Times Obituary: Zvi Griliches, 69, an Authority On Analysis of Economic Data
  2. ISSN 0895-3309
    .
  3. ^ "The Zvi Griliches Research Data Center". Archived from the original on January 4, 2007. Retrieved December 4, 2006.
  4. ^ "Zvi Griliches Award". Archived from the original on November 4, 2013. Retrieved January 14, 2013.
  5. ^ "Innovation economists present 20 new papers at Zvi Griliches Summer Research Seminar". 19 July 2011. Retrieved 2016-10-18.

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