Zvi Griliches
Zvi Griliches | |
|---|---|
| Born | 12 September 1930 |
| Died | 4 November 1999 (aged 69) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley (BS) University of Chicago (PhD) |
| Influences | Arnold Harberger |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Economics |
| Notable ideas | Theoretical and applied econometrics |
| Awards | John Bates Clark Medal (1965) |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | Hybrid corn: An exploration in economics of technological change (1957) |
| Doctoral advisor | Theodore Schultz Arnold Harberger |
| Doctoral students | Yehuda Grunfeld G. S. Maddala Robert Barro Ariel Pakes David Neumark Eli Berman |
| Website | |
Hirsh Zvi Griliches (/ˈɡrɪlɪkəs/ GRIL-i-kəs; 12 September 1930 – 4 November 1999) was a Lithuanian-born economist at Harvard University. Zvi Griliches's works concerned mostly the economics of technological change, including empirical studies of diffusion of innovations and the roles of R&D, patents, and education. In 2023, he had 126 publications listed in Web of Science and a Hirsch index of 49, which places him into 2% of the most productive economics professors in the United States.