Michael Keane (economist)

Michael Keane
Michael Keane at UTS in 2008
Born (1961-01-12) January 12, 1961
Academic background
Alma mater
Doctoral advisorRobert A. Moffitt
InfluencesKenneth Wolpin
John Geweke
James Heckman
Academic work
DisciplineEconometrics
InstitutionsJohns Hopkins University
Notable ideasChoice Modelling, Structural Modelling, Simulation Methods, Panel Data Econometrics
Awards
Website

Michael Patrick Keane (born 1961) is an American-born economist; he is the Wm. Polk Carey Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University. Keane was previously a professor at the University of New South Wales and the Nuffield Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford. He is considered one of the world's leading experts in the fields of Choice Modelling, structural modelling, simulation estimation, and panel data econometrics.

He is also one of the world's leading economists by many measures of research productivity. Keane works in numerous areas including labor economics, econometrics, consumer demand models, marketing, industrial organization, health economics, and trade.

He is currently a chief investigator of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (Cepar). From 2006 to 2010 he was co-director of the Centre for the Study of Choice (CenSoC) at UTS. Keane became a dual citizen of Australia in 2010.