Steven T. Berry | |
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Academic career | |
Field | econometrics industrial organization |
Institution | Yale University |
Alma mater | Northwestern University University of Wisconsin–Madison |
Doctoral advisor | Ariél Pakes [1] |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc |
Steven Titus Berry (born 1959) is the David Swensen Professor of Economics [2] and the former Director of the Division of Social Sciences at Yale University. He specializes in econometrics and industrial organization. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and a winner of the Frisch Medal. [3] In April 2014, he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, [4] and in 2018, he was named the Jeffrey Talpins Faculty Director of Yale's Tobin Center for Economic Policy. [5]
He is most famous for Berry–Levinsohn–Pakes (BLP) and other approaches to demand estimation.
He received his B.A. from Northwestern University in 1980 and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1985 and 1989.
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