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Gerhard Tintner, 1907-1983.

Austrian statistician and economist.

Born in Nuremberg, Germany to Austrian parents, Gerhard Emil Tintner studied at the University of Vienna, then a citadel of the Austrian School, obtaining his degree in 1929. 

After a brief period at the LSE.in 1930, Tintner worked under Morgenstern at the Austrian Institute for Business Cycle Research.  Tintner organized a reading group at the Institute to examine J.M. Keynes's General Theory as soon as it came out in early 1936.  However, the situation in Austria was increasingly precarious, and Tintner decided to leave later that year.   He emigrated to the United States, joining the the Cowles Commission as a research fellow in Colorado Springs in 1936-37. He would help arrange a similar fellowship for fellow-Viennese Abraham Wald to come the next year.

Gerhard Tintner subsequently took a more permanent position at Iowa State College in late 1937, where he would remain until 1962.  During this period, Tintner made substantial contributions to econometrics and time series.

 

  

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Major Works of Gerhard Tintner

  • Prices and the Trade Cycle, 1935
  • "A Note on the Economic Aspects of the Theory of Errors in Time Series", 1938, QJE
  • "The Theoretical Derivation of Dynamic Demand Curves", 1938, Econometrica
  • "The Theory of Choice under Subjective Risk and Uncertainty", 1941, Econometrica
  • "The Pure Theory of Production under Technological Risk and Uncertainty", 1941, Econometrica
  • "An Application of the Variate Difference Method to Multiple Regression", 1944, Econometrica.
  • "Multiple Regression for Systems of Equations", 1946, Econometrica
  • "A Note on Welfare Economics",1946, Econometrica
  • "Static Econometic Models and their Empirical Verification", 1950, Metroeconomica
  • Econometrics, 1952.

 
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