Michael Keane (economist)

Michael Keane
Michael Keane at UTS in 2008
Born (1961-01-12) January 12, 1961 (age 63)
Suffern, New York
Academic career
FieldEconometrics
InstitutionJohns Hopkins University
Alma mater
Doctoral
advisor		Robert A. Moffitt
InfluencesKenneth Wolpin
John Geweke
James Heckman
ContributionsChoice Modelling, Structural Modelling, Simulation Methods, Panel Data Econometrics
Awards
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Michael Patrick Keane (born 1961) is an American-born economist; he is the Wm. Polk Carey Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University. Keane was previously a professor at the University of New South Wales and the Nuffield Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford.[1][2] He is considered one of the world's leading experts in the fields of Choice Modelling, structural modelling, simulation estimation, and panel data econometrics.[3][4][5][6][7]

He is also one of the world's leading economists by many measures of research productivity.[8][9] Keane works in numerous areas including labor economics, econometrics, consumer demand models, marketing, industrial organization, health economics, and trade.

He is currently a chief investigator of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (Cepar).[10] From 2006–10 he was Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Choice (CenSoC) at UTS.[11] Keane became a dual citizen of Australia in 2010.

  1. ^ "Academic Experience" (PDF). ifs.org.uk. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
  2. ^ "Michael Keane arrives". business.unsw.edu.au. 25 August 2017. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
  3. ^ "Professor Michael Keane". assa.edu.au. Archived from the original on 10 September 2017. Retrieved 10 September 2017. According to the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, " He is considered one of the world's leading experts in the fields of Choice Modelling, structural modelling, simulation estimation, and panel data econometrics."
  4. ^ "Nuffield Professorship of Economics". ox.ac.uk/. Retrieved 10 September 2017. According to the University of Oxford Nuffield Professorship announcement, "He is a world leader in choice modelling, the statistical technique that involves developing mathematical models to predict how individuals or companies make different types of decisions."
  5. ^ "Michael Keane". Bfi.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 21 February 2015. According his profile at the Becker-Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago, "Michael Keane is a distinguished behavioral economist and econometrician and a world leader in choice modeling."
  6. ^ "Prestigious joint appointment for Michael Keane". business.unsw.edu.au. Retrieved 10 September 2017. According to the UNSW Business School appointment announcement, "He is widely known for his seminal contributions in empirical microeconomics and econometrics. His methodological innovations are used extensively in a variety of applied fields including labour economics, health economics and marketing."
  7. ^ "Michael P Keane". ifs.org.uk. Retrieved 10 September 2017. According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies profile, "Keane is best known for work on simulation methods (e.g., the "GHK algorithm") and for contributions to the theory and application of dynamic discrete choice models."
  8. ^ "As of September 2017 Keane has over 16,000 citations on Google scholar". Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  9. ^ And, according to the IDEAS/RePEc October 2013 rankings of economists by several measures of research productivity, he ranks 110th among all economists in the world, 5th in the United Kingdom, 37th in the world over the past 10 years, and 1st among all economists in the 1990 PhD cohort. In terms of total journal pages, weighted by journal impact factors and number of co-authors, he is 23rd in the world and 5th in the world over the last 10 years.
  10. ^ "Cepar Homepage". Cepar.edu.au. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
  11. ^ "UTS: About – Study of Choice". Censoc.uts.edu.au. 15 October 2012. Archived from the original on 26 January 2014. Retrieved 15 January 2014.