Takeshi Amemiya

Takeshi Amemiya
Native name	雨宮 健
Born	(1935-03-29) March 29, 1935 Tokyo, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Fields	Economics
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley
Alma mater	Johns Hopkins University
Doctoral advisor	Carl F. Christ

Takeshi Amemiya (雨宮 健, Amemiya Takeshi, born 29 March 1935, Tokyo, Japan) is an economist specializing in econometrics and the economy of ancient Greece.

Amemiya is the Edward Ames Edmonds Professor of Economics (emeritus) and a Professor of Classics at Stanford University. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the American Statistical Association and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1985).

Education

• B.A., 1958, Social Science, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan
• M.A., 1961, Economics, American University, Washington, DC
• Ph.D., 1964, Economics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

Honors and awards

• U.S. Scientist Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 1988
• Fellowship, Japan Society for Promotion of Science, 1989
• Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, 1975–1976
• Ford Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in Economics, Johns Hopkins University, 1963–1965

Publications

Books

• Advanced Econometrics, Basil Blackwell, 1985
• Introduction To Statistics And Econometrics, Harvard University Press, 1994.
• Nonlinear Statistical Modeling: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Symposium in Economic Theory and Econometrics : Essays in Honor of Takeshi Amemiya, ed. Takeshi Amemiya, Kimio Morimune, James L. Powell and Cheng Hsiao. Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Selected writings

• "A Comparative Study of Alternative Estimators in a Distributed Lag Model," Econometrica, Vol. 35, No. 3/4 (Jul. - Oct., 1967), pp. 509-529, (with Wayne A. Fuller)
• "The Effect of Aggregation on Prediction in the Autoregressive Model," Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 67, No. 339 (Sep., 1972), pp. 628-632, (with Roland Y. Wu)
• "Generalized Least Squares with an Estimated Autocovariance Matrix," Econometrica, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Jul., 1973), pp. 723-732
• "Regression Analysis when the Dependent Variable Is Truncated Normal," Econometrica, Vol. 41, No. 6 (Nov., 1973), pp. 997-1016
• "Multivariate Regression and Simultaneous Equation Models when the Dependent Variables Are Truncated Normal," Econometrica, Vol. 42, No. 6 (Nov., 1974), pp. 999-1012
• "The Maximum Likelihood and the Nonlinear Three-Stage Least Squares Estimator in the General Nonlinear Simultaneous Equation Model," Econometrica, Vol. 45, No. 4 (May, 1977), pp. 955-968
• "The Estimation of a Simultaneous Equation Generalized Probit Model," Econometrica, Vol. 46, No. 5 (Sep., 1978), pp. 1193-1205
• "The Estimation of a Simultaneous-Equation Tobit Model," International Economic Review, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Feb., 1979), pp. 169-181
• "Selection of Regressors," International Economic Review, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Jun., 1980), pp. 331-354
• "Nonlinear Regression Models," Handbook of Econometrics, vol.1, ed. by Z. Griliches and M. Intrilligator, North Holland (1983), ch.6, pp. 334-389
• "Instrumental-Variable Estimation of an Error-Components Model," Econometrica, Vol. 54, No. 4, (Jul., 1986), pp. 869-880, (with Thomas E. MaCurdy)

External links

• Amemiya's faculty home page
• Google Scholar