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Trygve Haavelmo

1911 - 1999

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Trygve Magnus Haavelmo (13 December 1911 – 28 July 1999), born in Skedsmo, Norway, was an economist whose research interests centered on econometrics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Trygve Haavelmo has received more than 116,758 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia. Trygve Haavelmo is the 66th most popular economist (up from 72nd in 2019), the 43rd most popular biography from Norway (up from 44th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Norwegian Economist.

Trygve Haavelmo was a Norwegian economist who is most famous for the Haavelmo Theorem. This theorem states that if a model is to be used to predict future events, it must be calibrated with data from the past.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Trygve Haavelmo ranks 66 out of 414. Before him are Theodore Schultz, Oliver E. Williamson, Irving Fisher, Franco Modigliani, Robert Mundell, and Cornelius Castoriadis. After him are Ben Bernanke, Kenneth Arrow, Arthur Cecil Pigou, Nikolai Kondratiev, Harry Markowitz, and Leonid Hurwicz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Trygve Haavelmo ranks 39. Before him are Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, William Howard Stein, Niels Kaj Jerne, Ginger Rogers, Max Frisch, and Odysseas Elytis. After him are Ernesto Sabato, John Archibald Wheeler, Herta Oberheuser, Louise Bourgeois, Richard Baer, and L. Ron Hubbard. Among people deceased in 1999, Trygve Haavelmo ranks 26. Before him are Jerzy Grotowski, Joe DiMaggio, Julius Nyerere, Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, Akio Morita, and Glenn T. Seaborg. After him are Henry Way Kendall, Iris Murdoch, Desmond Llewelyn, Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz, Oliver Reed, and Mary Ainsworth.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Trygve Haavelmo ranks 43 out of 1,039. Before him are Magnus IV of Sweden (1316), Haakon the Good (918), Lars Onsager (1903), Magnus the Good (1024), Gustav Vigeland (1869), and Haakon IV of Norway (1204). After him are Sophus Lie (1842), Ivar Giaever (1929), Oda Krohg (1860), Johan Halvorsen (1864), Haakon Sigurdsson (930), and Olaf III of Norway (1050).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Norway

Among economists born in Norway, Trygve Haavelmo ranks 2. Before him are Ragnar Frisch (1895). After him are Finn E. Kydland (1943), and Jon Elster (1940).

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