TJALLING C. KOOPMANS (1910–1985)
Director: July 1948–1955; 1961–1964;
1965–1967
Ph.D., University of Leiden, 1936
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Tjalling C. Koopmans lectured at the Rotterdam School of Economics and served on the
staff of the Netherlands Economic Institute, 1936–37. From 1938 to 1940 he was
engaged in business-cycle research at the League of Nations in Geneva. In 1910–41 he
was on the staff of the Local and State Government Section of the School for Public and
International Affairs, Princeton University, and also taught statistics at New York
University. In 1941–42, he was economist with the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company,
and in 1942–44 he was statistician to the Combined Shipping Adjustment Board at
Washington. Koopmans joined the staff of the Cowles Commission in July 1944, as a research
associate. In 1946 he also became an associate professor in the Department of Economics at
the University of Chicago. In 1948 he was appointed director of research of the Commission
and professor of economics at the University of Chicago. He was elected a Fellow of the
Econometric Society in 1940, of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1941, of the
American Statistical Association in 1949, and a member of the International Statistical
Institute in 1951. He served as vice-president of the Econometric Society in 1949 and as
president in 1950. He was a member of a committee of the Social Science Research Council
on the Social Implications of Atomic Energy and Technological Change. From August 1950, to
January 1951, Koopmans visited leading European centers of research and instruction in
econometrics and was appointed at that time correspondent member of the Royal Dutch
Academy of Sciences in Amsterdam. He has had various articles published in the American
Economic Review, Annals of Mathematical Statistics, Econometrica, Journal of the American
Statistical Association, Journal of Political Economy, Proceedings of the International
Statistical Conferences, and Review of Economics and Statistics. He is editor
of Statistical Inference in Dynamic Economic Models, 1950, and Activity Analysis
of Production and Allocation, 1951; and co-editor of Studies in Econometric Method (forthcoming).
Two books by Koopmans, Linear Regression Analysis of Economic Time Series, 1937,
and Tanker Freight Rates and Tankship Building, 1939, have been published.
[Abstracted from A Twenty Year Research
Report 1932–1952.]
Cowles Commission/Foundation Publications by
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