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Prof. Dr. Edward E. Leamer
UCLA  ,  USA

Education:

B.A., Princeton, 1966, mathematics

M.A., University of Michigan, mathematics(statistics)

Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1970, economics


Honors:

Society of Sigma Xi

Fellow, Econometric Society

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

New Horizons in Economic Thought, Appraisals of Leading

Economists, ed. by Warren J. Samuels, chapter by Herman

Leonard and Keith Maskus, 1992.

Graham Lecture, Princeton University, March 1994.

Christie Lecture, Millersville University, October 1998.

Who’s Who in Economics, edited by Mark Blaug, Edward Elgar

Fathauer Lecture, University of Arizona, 2013

Citibank Teaching Award, 2001

EMBA Teaching Award: 2001, 2002, 2010

Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement in Economics, Re High-Tech Employee

Antitrust Litigation, American Antitrust Institute, 2014

Prize in my name: Leamer-Rosenthal Prize, Berkeley Institute for Transparency in the

Social Sciences.

2018 Jerry S. Cohen Award for Antitrust Scholarship


Academic Appointments:

Assistant Professor:

Wayne State University, January-June, 1970

Harvard University, July, 1970-June, 1973

Associate Professor:

Harvard University, July, 1973-June, 1975

Professor of Economics:

University of California at Los Angeles, July 1975-

Chauncey J. Medberry Chair in Management:

Anderson Graduate School of Management, July 1990-

Professor of Statistics

University of California at Los Angeles, July 1997-


Administrative Positions:

Chairman, Department of Economics:

University of California, Los Angeles, 1983-87.

Area Head, Business Economics:

Anderson Graduate School of Management, 1990-92, 1994-6

Director, UCLA/Anderson Business Forecast, July 2000 - 2016


Visiting Positions:

Visiting Professor:

University of Southern California, 1979-80

University of Basel, June 1990.

Central European University, April 1993.

Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, Fall 1994

Yale University, 1995

Universidad de San Andreas, Argentina, 1997

University of Oregon, 2001

Gastprofessor:

Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, October 1987, June 1991, July 1992, April 1993,June 1995

Visiting Scholar:

Federal Reserve Board, March 1988, September 1989, September 1991, September 1993,May 1996

International Monetary Fund, 1992, 1993.

Lecturer, National Science Council, Republic of China, Dec. 1991.

United States Study Center, University of Sydney, 2009

Visiting Fellowship:

Department of Statistics (Econometrics), The Australian National University, AugustSeptember,1988

Research Fellow:

National Bureau of Economic Research, 1989-.

Lecturer:

Dutch Network for Quantitative Economics, May 1990.


Fellowships, Grants:

NSF graduate traineeship, 1966-67

NDEA Fellowship, 1967-70

National Science Foundation Grant GS31929, Bayesian Inference with Economic Data, U.S. State Department, 1970-71,

"Tariffs and the Commodity Composition of Trade," with R.M. Stern, University of Michigan Federal Reserve, Board of Governors, 1971-72,

"Controlling Monetary Aggregates"Department of Labor, 1974-75,

"Tariffs and the Allocation of Labor" National Science Foundation Grant, SOC 76-08863, 1976-78

Ford Foundation Grant, "The Commodity Composition of Trade," 1977-79

National Science Foundation, SOC 78-09477, 1978- 80,

"Bayesian Statistical Search and Estimation Procedures" Department of Labor, "Trade and Employment," 1978-79

National Science Foundation, renewal, 1980-82, 1982-84, 1984-86, 1986-7

World Bank, "Effects of Non-tariff Barriers", 1986-87.

National Science Foundation, "Determinants of the Real Exchange Rate", with Sebastian Edwards, 1986-7

Sloan Foundation, "Empirical Studies of the Effect of U.S. International Economic Policy on the Distribution of Income", 1987-93

National Science Foundation, "Bayesian Elicitation Diagnostics," 1989-91.

Labor Department, "Estimates of the Effects of Non-tariff Barriers", 1989-90.

National Science Foundation, "Economic Integration of High-wage and Low-wage Economies," 1992-4, 1994-96.

Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, "Economic Integration of Taiwan with Mainland China," with Ivan Pn'g, 1993-4.

Price Waterhouse, "Does U.S. Foreign Direct Investment Reduce Domestic Investment?", 1993-4.

Sage Foundation, “Trade and US Wages,” 1997-2000.

The Arnold Foundation: Minimum Wages in Los Angeles, 2015-2017.