Trygve Haavelmo
Curriculum Vitae
Born: December 13, 1911, in Skedsmo, Norway | |
Education | |
1930 | Examen artium (secondary school) |
1933 | Cand. oecon. (undergraduate degree) in Political Economy, University of Oslo |
1946 | Dr.phil., University of Oslo |
Positions and appointments | |
1933 – 38 | Research Assistant, Institute of Economics, University of Oslo |
1938 – 39 | Lecturer in Statistics, University of Aarhus |
1940 – 42 | Rockefeller Fellow |
1942 – 44 | Statistician, Nortraship, New York |
1945 | Commercial Attache, Norwegian Embassy, Washington, DC |
1946 – 47 | Researcher, Cowles Commission, University of Chicago |
1947 – 48 | Chief of Section, Ministry of Commerce and Industry and Ministry of Finance, Oslo |
1948 – 79 | Professor of Economics, University of Oslo |
Honors and international affiliations | |
1944 | Fellow of the Econometric Society |
1946 | Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics |
1950 | Member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences |
1954 – 58, 1961 – 63, 1966 – 70 |
Member of the Council of the Econometric Society |
1957 | President of the Econometric Society |
1975 | Honorary Member of the American Economic Association |
1979 | Member of the Danish Academy of Sciences |
1979 | Fridtjof Nansen Award for Outstanding Research |
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