Whitney K. Newey

Whitney K. Newey
Born (1954-07-17) July 17, 1954
United States
Academic background
Alma materMIT (Ph.D.)
BYU (B.A.)
Doctoral advisorJerry A. Hausman
Academic work
DisciplineEconometrics
InstitutionsMIT
Doctoral studentsYacine Ait-Sahalia
Alberto Abadie
Susanne Schennach
Notable ideasNewey–West estimator
Website

Whitney Kent Newey (born July 17, 1954) is the Jane Berkowitz Carlton and Dennis William Carlton Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a well-known econometrician. He is best known for developing, with Kenneth D. West, the Newey–West estimator, which robustly estimates the covariance matrix of a regression model when errors are heteroskedastic and autocorrelated.