A Conversation with Leo Breiman

By Richard Olshen
A Conversation with Leo Breiman

Wikipedia commented the following about Leo breiman:
Leo Breiman (January 27, 1928 – July 7, 2005) was a distinguished statistician at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the recipient of numerous honors and awards, and was a member of the United States National Academy of Science.
Breiman's work bridged the gap between statisticians and computer scientists, particularly in the field of machine learning. Perhaps his most important contributions were his work on classification and regression trees and ensembles of trees fit to bootstrap samples. Bootstrap aggregation was given the name bagging by Breiman. Another of Breiman's ensemble approaches is the random forest.

Murray Rosenblatt: His Contributions to Probability and Statistics

By T. C. Sun
The paper is in honor of Rosenblatt's 70th birthday, which summarize his major contribution to mathematics and statistics. Read the paper at:
Murray Rosenblatt: His Contributions to Probability and Statistics

Great Statisticians

List of Statisticians from Wikipedia
PORTRAITS OF STATISTICIANS from University of York

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Hirotugu Akaike (ISM)

B

Moulinath Banerjee

Richard A. Berk (UPenn)

Arup Bose (ISI)
Lawrence Brown (UPenn)

C

Tianxi Cai (Harvard)

Tony Cai (UPenn)

F
Thomas S. Ferguson (UCLA)

G
Jayanta K. Ghosh (Purdue) Tilmann Gneiting (UWashington)

H
Peter Hall (UCD)

K
Michael R. Kosorok (UNC)

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Erich Leo Lehmann (UC Berkeley)

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Elias Masry (UCSD) Jason Morton (PSU)

Hans-Georg Müller(UC,Davis)

N

Vinh Quang Nguyen (UCI)

P

David Pollard (Yale)

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Adrian E. Raftery(UWashington) Joseph P. Romano (Stanford)
Murray Rosenblatt (UCSD) Linda Rothschild (UCSD)

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Pranab K. Sen (UNC)

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Sara van de Geer (ETHZ)
Aad van der Vaart (Vrije Universiteit)

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Jon A. Wellner (UWashiton) Tim Wright (UMissouri)

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Harry Huibin Zhou (Yale)

2008-2009: Econometricians on the market

See the job market candidate list from econjobrumor.

Compiled List VII (11/07/2008) (not a complete list at all)
1) Rodrigo A. Alfaro2) Dante Amengual3) Arie Beresteanu4) Gray Calhoun5) Su-Hsin Chang6) Guo Chen7) Qingqing Chen8) Xu Cheng9) Richard Chiburis10) Richard K. Crump11) Pierangelo De Pace12) Ibrahim Ergen13) Yunjong Eo14) Qu Feng15) Sebastian Fossati16) Antonio F Galvao17) Nandita G. Gawade18) Bertrand Hounkannounon19) Meng Huang20) David T. Jacho-Chavez21) Ilze Kalnina22) Karthik Kalyanaraman 23) Young Gui Kim24) Kun-Ho Kim25) Toru Kitagawa26) Xianghua Liu27) Konrad Menzel28) Sung Yong Park29) Wang Peng30) Panutat Satchachai31) Ahmad Shahidi32) Dajing Shang33) Natalia M. Sizova34) Wei-Siang Wang35) Jisong Wu36) Yohei Yamamoto37) Ping Yu38) Julia Hui Zhu

Great Econometricians

Updated version of Yixiao Sun's Econometricians
Under construction, March 13, 2011 updated

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Jason Abrevaya (UT-Austin)
Chunrong Ai (UF) Yacine Aït-Sahalia (Princeton)
Donald W.K. Andrews (Yale)

Andres Aradilas-Lopez (UWMadison)

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Jushan Bai (Columbia) Richard Baillie (MSU)

Yong Bao (Purdue)
Robert L. Basmann(BinghamtonU) Anil K. Bera (UIUC)
Herman J. Bierens (PSU) Lynne Billard (UGorgia)

David Brownstone (UCI) Moshe Buchinsky (UCLA)

Federico A. Bugni (Duke)

C
Zongwu Cai (UNCC) John Campbell (Harvard)

Ivan Canay (NWU)

Raymond Carroll (TAMU)

Karim Chalak (BC)

Gary Chamberlain (Harvard)
Songnian Chen (HKUST) Xiaohong Chen (Yale)

Xu Cheng (UPenn)

Victor Chernozhukov (MIT) Siddhartha Chib (WUSL)
Gregory Chow (Princeton)

Peter .F. Christoffersen (McGill)

Todd .E. Clark (Clevelandfed)

Mike Clements (Warwick)

D
Russell Davidson (Marseille) Aureo de Paula (UPenn)
Phoebus J Dhrymes (Columbia) Francis Diebold(UP)

Miller Doug (UCD) Steven N. Durlauf (UWMadison)

E

Graham Elliott (UCSD) Kirill Evdokimov (Princeton)

F
Yanqin Fan (Vanderbilt) Jianqin Fan (Princeton)
Jon Faust (JHU)

G

John Galbraith (McGill)
Ana Beatriz GALVÃO (UL) Raffaella Giacomini (UCL)

Amos Golan (AmericanU)
William Greene (NYU) Eric GHYSELS (UNC)

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James D. Hamilton (UCSD) Bruce E. Hansen (UW-Madison)
Peter Reinhard Hansen (Stanford)
Matthew Harding (Stanford) Jerry Hausman (MIT)
Daniel Henderson (Binghamton)
David F. Hendry (Oxford) Eric Hillebrand (LSU)
Stephan Hoderlein (BC) Han Hong (Stanford)

Yongmiao Hong (Cornell)

Joel L. Horowitz (NWU)

Yingyao Hu (JHU)

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Rustam Ibragimov (Harvard)
Emma Iglesias (MSU)
Guido W. Imbens (UCB) Atsushi Inoue(NCSU)

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Michael Jansson (Berkeley) Sainan Jin (SMU)

K

Hiroaki Kaido (BU) Shakeeb Khan (Duke)

Lutz Kilian(UM) Min Seong Kim (UCSD)

Jan F. Kiviet (UAmsterdam) Frank Kleibergen (Brown)

Patrick Kline (UCB)

Roger Koenker (UIUC) Tatiana Komarova (LSE)

Dennis Kristensen (Columbia) Subal C. Kumbhakar(Binghamton)

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Kajal Lahiri (Albany) LungFei Lee (OSU) Tae-Hwy Lee (UCR)
Qi Li (TAMU) Zhipeng Liao (Yale)

Oliver Linton (LSE) Xun Lu (HKUST)

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James MacKinnon (QED) Michael W. McCracken (StLouisFed)

Jan R. Magnus (TilburgU)

Enno Mammen (UMannheim ) CHARLES F. MANSKI(NWU)

Vadim Marmer (UBC)
Carlos Martins-Filho (Colorado) Esfandiar (Essie) Maasoumi (EmoryU)
Rosa L. Matzkin (UCLA) MICHAEL W. MCCRACKEN (St. Louis Fed)

Konstantinos Costas Meghir (UCL)

Konrad Menzel (NYU) Anna Mikusheva (MIT)
Hyungsik Roger Moon (USC)

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Whitney Newey (MIT) Serena Ng (Columbia)

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Jorda Oscar (UCD)

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Harry Paarsch (UMelbourne)

Ariel Pakes (Havard)
Christopher Parmeter (VTech) M. Hashem Pesaran (Cambridge)
Gary C.D. Phillips(Cardiff)
Peter Charles Bonest Phillips (Yale) James L. Powell (UCB)

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Jeffrey S. Racine(McMaster U) David Rapach (SLU)

Eric Renault (UNCarolina)

Geert Ridder (USC) Peter M. Robinson (LSE)
Joseph Romano (Stanford)
Barbara Rossi (Duke)

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Shinichi Sakata (UBC) Andres Santos (UCSD)

Marcia Schafgans (LSE)
Frank Schorfheide (UPenn) Susanne M. Schennach (UChicago)

Shu Shen (UCD)

Robert Sherman (CalTech) Xiaoxia Shi (UW-Madison)

Mototsugu Shintani (VanderbiltU)

Matt Shum (CalTech)
Robin C. Sickles (RiceU) Léopold Simar(UCdL)
Aaron Smith (UCD) Jeremy Smith (Warwick)

DOUGLAS G. STEIGERWALD (UCSB)

Thanasis Stengos(Guelph)

Maxwell B Stinchcombe (UT-Austin)

James Stock (Havard) Joerg Stoye (Cornell)
Liangjun Su (MSU) Yixiao Sun (UCSD)

Norman R. Swanson (Rutgers)

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Elie Tamer (NWU)
Wei Tan (SUNY-Stony Brook)
Allan Timmermann (UCSD)

Alexander Torgovitsky (NWU)

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Aman Ullah (UCR)

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Kenneth F. Wallis (Warwick)

Mark Watson (Princeton) Ken D. West (UW, Madison)
Halbert White (UCSD) Paul W. Wilson (Clemson)
Jonathan Wright(JHU)
Ximing Wu (TAMU)

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Haiqing Xu (UTAustin)
Zhijie Xiao (BC)

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Jun Yu (SMU)

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John Zedlewski (Harvard)

Guofu Zhou (WUSTL)

Victorial Zinde-Walsh (McGill)

Mankiw's Joke for Fools' Day

Read at Mankiw's Blog: My Last Free Post

The Financial Crisis: An Inside View

By Phillip Swagel
This paper reviews the events associated with the credit market disruption that began inAugust 2007 and developed into a full-blow crisis in the fall of 2008.

Read the paper at: The Financial Crisis: An Inside View