Dear NBER Board Members, Researchers, and Staff -
I am sorry to report that Arnold Zellner of the University of
Chicago, a long-serving member of the NBER's Board of Directors, passed
away on Wednesday at his home in Hyde Park. Arnold received his Ph.D.
from the University of California and taught at the University of
Washington and at the University of Wisconsin before joining the Chicago
Business School faculty in 1966. He directed the NBER-NSF Seminar on
Bayesian Inference in Econometrics and Statistics for more than twenty
years. Arnold was elected to the NBER's Board of Directors in 1980, and
became a director emeritus in 2004. We will miss his many contributions
to the NBER and to the economics profession more broadly.
Jim Poterba
Received on Thu Aug 12 2010 - 17:23:51 EDT
