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Frederick C. Mills, 1892-1964.

American Institutionalist economist, statistician and business cycle empiricist, a pioneer of early time series econometric methods. 

Originating from Oakland, California, Frederick C. Mills got his undergraduate and masters's degree at the University of California.  He obtained his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1917, under Wesley C. Mitchell.  After a year at the LSE, Frederick C. Mills joined the faculty at Columbia in 1919, where he remained as a professor of economics and statistics until the end of his career.  Mills was also a researcher at the NBER from 1925 to 1953.  

 

  

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Major Works of Frederick C. Mills

  • Statistical Methods, 1924 [1938 rev ed]
  • "Hypothesis Concerning the Duration of Business Cycles", 1926, JASA.
  • Behavior of Prices, 1927 [nber]
  • "Price Movements and Related Industrial Changes", 1929, in E.E. Hunt, editor, Recent Economic Changes in the United States [nber]
  • Economic Tendencies in the United States, 1932. [nber]
  • Prices in Recession and Recovery: A study of recent changes, 1936.[nber]
  • Prices in a War Economy, 1943 [nber]
  • Price-Quantity Interactions in Business Cycles, 1946. [nber]
  • The Structure of Post-War Prices, 1948 [nber]
  • Productivity and Economic Progress, 1952 [nber]
  • "A Professional Sketch", 1952, Burns, editor, Wesley Clair Mitchell [nber]
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