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MY REMINISCENCES OF TRYGVE HAAVELMO AT THE COWLES COMMISSION

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2014

T.W. Anderson*
Affiliation:
Stanford University
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*Address correspondence to T.W. Anderson, Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; e-mail: twa@stanford.edu.

Abstract

Trygve Haavelmo and the author were colleagues at the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics during the academic year 1945–46. The econometric analysis of simultaneous equation models and its uses in economic analysis were explored.

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