Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch was an influential Norwegian economist known for being one of the major contributors to establishing economics as a quantitative and statistically informed science in the early 20th century. He coined the term econometrics in 1926 for utilising statistical methods to describe economic systems,as well as the terms microeconomics and macroeconomics in 1933,for describing individual and aggregate economic systems,respectively. He was the first to develop a statistically informed model of business cycles in 1933. Later work on the model together with Jan Tinbergen won the two the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969.
Jan Tinbergen was a Dutch economist who was awarded the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969,which he shared with Ragnar Frisch for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes. He is widely considered to be one of the most influential economists of the 20th century and one of the founding fathers of econometrics.
Lawrence Robert Klein was an American economist. For his work in creating computer models to forecast economic trends in the field of econometrics in the Department of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania,he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1980 specifically "for the creation of econometric models and their application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies." Due to his efforts,such models have become widespread among economists. Harvard University professor Martin Feldstein told the Wall Street Journal that Klein "was the first to create the statistical models that embodied Keynesian economics," tools still used by the Federal Reserve Bank and other central banks.
Renato Brunetta is an Italian economist and politician. He was the Minister of Public Administration and Innovation from 8 May 2008 to 16 November 2011 in the Berlusconi government. He was also the Minister for Public Administration in the Draghi government,from 13 February 2021 until 22 October 2022. He was the head of Forza Italia's deputies group at the Chamber of Deputies from 2013 to 2018.
John Quiggin is an Australian economist,a professor at the University of Queensland. He was formerly an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and Federation Fellow and a member of the board of the Climate Change Authority of the Australian Government.
Jean Tirole is a French economist who is currently a professor of economics at Toulouse 1 Capitole University. He focuses on industrial organization,game theory,banking and finance,and psychology. In particular,he focuses on the regulation of economic activity in a way that does not hinder innovation while maintaining fair rules.
Giancarlo Giorgetti is an Italian politician and prominent member of the League,of which he became deputy secretary in 2016. Since October 2022,Giorgetti has served as Minister of Economy and Finance in the government of Giorgia Meloni. Previously,he was Secretary of the Council of Ministers from June 2018 until September 2019,in the government of Giuseppe Conte and later Minister of Economic Development from February 2021 until October 2022,in the government of Mario Draghi.
Sir Richard William Blundell CBE FBA is a British economist and econometrician.
Donald John Roberts is a Canadian-American economist,and John H. and Irene S. Scully Professor of Economics,Strategic Management and International Business at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Marc Leon Nerlove is an American agricultural economist and econometrician and a distinguished university professor emeritus in agricultural and resource economics at the University of Maryland. He was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economic Association (AEA) in 1969 and held appointments at eight different universities from 1958–2016. The Clark Medal is awarded to an economist under the age of 40 who “is judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge”,and when the AEA appointed him as a distinguished fellow in 2012,they cited his development of widely used econometric methods across a range of subjects,including supply and demand,time series analysis,production functions,panel analysis,and family demography.
Franklin Marvin Fisher was an American economist. He taught economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1960 to 2004.
Michele Boldrin is an Italian-born economist,academic and former politician expert in economic growth,business cycles,technological progress and intellectual property. He is the Joseph Gibson Hoyt Distinguished Professor in Arts &Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. Along with his colleague and coauthor David Levine,he was part of the group of 200 economists publicly opposing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. He later publicly defended his position on the issue in various international media,including a public debate with Brad DeLong.
Lucrezia Reichlin is an Italian economist who has been a professor at London Business School since 2008.
Charles Frederick Roos was an American economist who made contributions to mathematical economics. He was one of the founders of the Econometric Society together with American economist Irving Fisher and Norwegian economist Ragnar Frisch in 1930. He served as Secretary-Treasurer during the first year of the Society and was elected as President in 1948. He was director of research of the Cowles Commission from September 1934 to January 1937.
Oriana Bandiera,FBA is an Italian development economist and academic,who is currently the Sir Anthony Atkinson Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. Her research focuses on development,labour,and organisational economics. Outside of her academic appointment,she is co-editor of Econometrica,and an affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research and Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development. A fellow of the Econometric Society and the British Academy,she received the YrjöJahnsson Award in 2019,an award granted annually to the best European economist(s) under the age of 45.
Carlo Cottarelli is an Italian economist and former director of the International Monetary Fund.
Claudio Borghi is an Italian businessman,former lecturer and politician,one of the top economic spokesmen of Italy's League party.
Lega,whose official name is Lega per Salvini Premier,is a right-wing populist political party in Italy,led by Matteo Salvini. The LSP is the informal successor of Lega Nord.
Imran Rasul is a British economist and academic. He is Professor of Economics at the University College London,managing editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association,and co-director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. His research interests include labour,development and public economics and he is considered to be one of the leaders within social norms and capital economics.
Paolo Sylos Labini was an Italian economist and a key figure in the economic debate in post-World War II Italy. He was a professor of political economy at Sapienza University of Rome and an active member of Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.
