Edward Emory Leamer (born May 24, 1944) is a professor of economics and statistics at
UCLA. He is Chauncey J. Medberry Professor of Management and director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast.[1]
He attended Princeton (B.A., mathematics, 1966) and the University of Michigan (M.A., mathematics, Ph.D., economics, 1970).[2]
Leamer is the author of 4 books and over 100 articles on a range of subjects especially including applied
econometrics and quantitative
international economics.
Leamer is known amongst economists for his paper "Let's Take the Con Out of Econometrics",[3] widely referred to as Leamer's critique, which is said to have catalyzed the implementation of more rigorous research designs in the economic sciences.[4]
Selected publications
Books
1978. Specification Searches: Ad Hoc Inference with Nonexperimental Data, Wiley. Chapter preview
links.
1985. Sources of International Comparative Advantage: Theory and Evidence, MIT Press.
Description.
2006. Quantitative International Economics (with Robert M. Stern). Aldine Transaction.
Description and
preview.
2007. Handbook of Econometrics, Elsevier.
Description and chapter-preview links for v.
6A &
6B (editor with
James J. Heckman).
1980. "The Leontief Paradox, Reconsidered," Journal of Political Economy, 88(3), pp.
495-503. Reprinted in
Jagdish N. Bhagwati, ed., 1987, International Trade: Selected Readings, MIT Press. pp.
115- 124.
1983a. "Let's Take the Con Out of Econometrics," American Economic Review, 73(1), pp.
31-43.
1983b. "Reporting the Fragility of Regression Estimates," (with Herman Leonard), Review of Economics and Statistics, 65(2), pp.
306-317.
1985. "Sensitivity Analyses Would Help," American Economic Review, 75(3), pp.
308-313.
1995. "International Trade Theory: The Evidence," ch. 26, Handbook of International Economics, v. 3, pp. 1339–1394.
Abstract.
1987. "Econometric Metaphors," in Advances in Econometrics, Truman F. Bewley, ed., Cambridge v. 2, pp.
1-28.
1999. "Effort, Wages and the International Division of Labor," Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 107, Number 6, Part 1.[5]
2001. "The Economic Geography of the Internet Age," Journal of International Business Studies, 32, 4.[6]
2007a. "Housing is the Business Cycle," in Housing, Housing Finance, and Monetary Policy, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, pp.
149-233Archived 2016-03-13 at the
Wayback Machine.
2007b. "Linking the Theory with the Data: That is the Core Problem of International Economics," ch. 67, Handbook of Econometrics, v. 6A, pp 4587–4606.
Abstract.
2007c. "A Flat World, A Level Playing Field, A Small World After All, or None of the Above? A Review of Thomas L. Friedman's The World is Flat," Journal of Economic Literature.[7]