Economic Sciences

Interview

Interview transcript Welcome. I’m Karl-Gustaf Löfgren, Professor of Economics at the Umeå University. Next to me is Anne-Sophie Crepin who holds a PhD in Economics from Stockholm University. Together we have the pleasure of interviewing the winners of the 2002 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel. The winners…

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Interview

Interview transcript Welcome. I’m Karl-Gustaf Löfgren, Professor of Economics at the Umeå University. Next to me is Anne-Sophie Crepin who holds a PhD in Economics from Stockholm University. Together we have the pleasure of interviewing the winners of the 2002 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel. The winners…

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Interview

Interview transcript My name is Bertil Holmlund. I am interviewing the two Laureates in Economic Sciences this year: Professor Daniel McFadden from University of California at the Berkley and Professor James Heckman from University of Chicago. They have received the Prize for their contributions to micro econometrics, which is a field on…

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Interview

Interview transcript My name is Bertil Holmlund. I am interviewing the two Laureates in Economic Sciences this year: Professor Daniel McFadden from University of California at the Berkley and Professor James Heckman from University of Chicago. They have received the Prize for their contributions to micro econometrics, which is…

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Interview

Interview transcript Professor Robert Fogel, very welcome to this interview. It’s a great honour to meet you. Robert Fogel: It’s a great pleasure to be here. I wanted to start off, to ask you a little bit about your background. Your parents were immigrants to the United States in the early 1920s.…

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Interview

Transcript from an interview with Professor Robert W. Fogel at the 1st Meeting of Laureates in Economic Sciences in Lindau, Germany, September 1-4, 2004. Interviewer is freelance journalist Marika Griehsel. Professor Robert Fogel, very welcome to this interview. It’s a great honour…

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Biographical

I was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, a little coal mining town in Eastern Pennsylvania, where my father owned a small business. He had first gone into business for himself after leaving Montreal and his family for the United States when he was only sixteen-years old. He moved many times in the eastern United States before…

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Other resources

The Laureates , New York University , University of California, San Diego ARCH Engle, R.F., “GARCH101: The Use of ARCH/GARCH Models in Applied Econometrics,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 15, No. 4, Fall 2001, pp. 157–168. Poon, S-H., and C.W.J. Granger, “Forecasting Financial Market Volatility,” Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 41, No. 2, June 2003,…

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