Biography of Trygve Haavelmo -

Trygve Magnus Haavelmo (13 December, 1911 –
26 July, 1999), born in Skedsmo, Norway, was an
influential economics|economist with main research
interests centered on the fields of econometrics
and economics theory. During World War II he
worked with Nortraship in the Statistical
Department. He received his Doctor of
Philosophy|Ph.D. in 1946 for his work on The
Probability Approach in Econometrics 1944. 

He was a Professor in economics and statistics at
the University of Oslo between 1948â€“79 and was
the trade department head of division from
1947â€“48. Haavelmo acquires a prominent position
in modern economics through his logical critique
of a series of custom conceptions in mathematical
analysis. 

In 1989, Haavelmo was awarded The Bank of Sweden
Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred
Nobel "for his clarification of the probability
theory foundations of econometrics and his
analyses of simultaneous economic structures."

==External links==
*http://nobelprize.org/economics/laureates/1989/ha
avelmo-bio.html nobelprize.org bio
*http://www.geocities.com/gfh_axds_as/zax/haavelmo
-lecture.html his clarification of the probability
theory foundations of econometrics and his
analyses of simultaneous economic structures.

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Biography of Trygve Haavelmo -