Biography of Jan Tinbergen -

Jan Tinbergen (The Hague, April 12, 1903 - June 9,
1994), The Netherlands|Dutch economist, was
awarded the first Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic
Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel|Nobel Memorial
Prize in Economics in 1969, which he shared with
Ragnar Frisch for having developed and applied
dynamic models for the analysis of  economic
processes.  

Tinbergen developed the first national
comprehensive Model (macroeconomics)|macroeconomic
model, which he first built for the Netherlands
and later applied to the United States and the
United Kingdom after World War II.

His younger brothers Nikolaas Tinbergen|Nikolaas
and Luuk Tinbergen|Luuk were important
ornithologists, and Nikolaas won the Nobel Prize
in Physiology or Medicine.  Tinbergen founded the
Econometric Institute in the Erasmus Universiteit
Rotterdam.

Tinbergen's work was later built on by Lawrence
Klein, contributing to another Nobel Prize.

==See also==
*List of economists
*List of economics consultancies and think tanks

==External links==
*
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathem
aticians/Tinbergen.html
*
http://www.nobel-winners.com/Economics/jan_tinberg
en.html Jan Tinbergen

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