Kenneth D. West

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1953 –

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Who is Kenneth D. West?

Kenneth David West is the John D. MacArthur and Ragnar Frisch Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin. He is best known for developing, with Whitney K. Newey, the Newey-West estimator, which robustly estimates the covariance matrix of a regression model when errors are heteroskedastic and autocorrelated.

West has since 2001 been a Co-Editor of the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.

West has since 1985 been a research associate at the NBER.

West received a BA Economics and Mathematics from Wesleyan University in 1973 and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983.

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Born
1953
Also known as
  • Kenneth West
Education
  • Wesleyan University
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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