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Professor Richard J Smith FBA

Theoretical econometrics and economic statistics; moment condition models, model selection and nonnested tests, specification tests, bias reduction and asymptotic approximations, survey nonresponse, survey-based estimation of expectations and national ac
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2007
Subjects
Economics
Sections
Economics and Economic History
Website
http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/faculty/person.html?id=smith&group=faculty

Current post

University of Cambridge Professor Emeritus of Econometric Theory and Economic Statistics

2017 -

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Professor of Econometric Theory and Economic Statistics

2006 - 2017

University of Warwick Professor of Econometrics

2002 - 2005

University of Bristol Professor of Economics

1995 - 2002

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Stefan Dercon FBA

Applied economic analysis studying what keeps some people and countries poor: the failures of markets, governments and politics, mainly in Africa and South Asia, and how to achieve change

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Professor Stephen Broadberry FBA

Economic history; development of the world economy since AD 1000; the Great Divergence; international comparisons of productivity; wars and economic performance

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Professor Christian List FBA

Philosophical foundations of the social sciences; political philosophy; theories of individual and collective decision-making

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