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Nationality
  
British

Name
  
Denis Sargan


Fields
  
Econometrics

Born
  
23 August 1924 (
1924-08-23
)
Doncaster, Yorkshire

Institution
  
London School of Economics

Alma mater
  
University of Cambridge

Influences
  
William Phillips, James Durbin

Died
  
1996, Theydon Bois, United Kingdom

Books
  
Lectures on Advanced Econometric Theory, Contributions to Econometrics

Influenced
  
Alok Bhargava, David Forbes Hendry, Esfandiar Maasoumi, Peter C. B. Phillips, Manuel Arellano

Similar People
  
Peter C B Phillips, Manuel Arellano, Esfandiar Maasoumi, Meghnad Desai - Baron De

Education
  
University of Cambridge

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John Denis Sargan (23 August 1924 – 13 April 1996) was a British econometrician who specialized in the analysis of economic time-series. Sargan made many contributions, notably in instrumental variables estimation, Edgeworth expansions for the distributions of econometric estimators, identification conditions in simultaneous equations models, asymptotic tests for overidentifying restrictions in homoskedastic equations and exact tests for unit roots in autoregressive and moving average models (co-authored with Alok Bhargava). At the LSE, Sargan was Professor of Econometrics from 1964–84. Sargan was President of the Econometric Society, a Fellow of the British Academy and an (honorary foreign) member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Sargan is known for having been doctoral advisor to several renowned econometricians. These include Alok Bhargava, David Forbes Hendry, Esfandiar Maasoumi, Peter C.B. Phillips, and Manuel Arellano. His influence on econometric methodology is evident in several fields including in the development of Generalized Method of Moments estimators.

Selected publications

  • Sargan, J. D. (1958). "The Estimation of Economic Relationships using Instrumental Variables". Econometrica. 26 (3): 393–415. JSTOR 1907619. doi:10.2307/1907619. 
  • Sargan, J. D. (1964). "Wages and Prices in the United Kingdom: A Study in Econometric Methodology", 16, 25–54. in Econometric Analysis for National Economic Planning, ed. by P. E. Hart, G. Mills, and J. N. Whittaker. London: Butterworths
  • Sargan, J. D. (1980). "Some Tests of Dynamic Specification for a Single Equation". Econometrica. 48 (4): 879–897. JSTOR 1912938. doi:10.2307/1912938. 
  • Published posthumously

  • Sargan, J. D. (2001). "The Choice Between Sets of Regressors." Econometric Reviews 20(2).
  • Sargan, J. D. (2001). "Model Building and Data Mining." Econometric Reviews 20(2): 159-170.
  • Sargan, J. D. (2003). "The Development of Econometrics at LSE in the Last 30 Years." Econometric Theory 19(3): 429-438.
  • References

    Denis Sargan Wikipedia