Halbert White

Halbert Lynn White, Jr. ( born November 19, 1950 in Kansas City, † 31 March 2012) was an American economist.

Life and work

White studied at Princeton University and received there in 1972 as a Valedictorian ( top of his class ) Baccalaureus Artium his (AB) with summa cum laude. In 1976 he was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for Ph.D. doctorate. He was a professor of economics at the University of California, San Diego.

White dealt with econometrics, statistics, artificial neural networks, forecasting and financial markets. The White test is named after him.

Awards

Memberships

• Econometric Society
• International Neural Network Society
• American Statistical Association
• American Mathematical Society
• Phi Beta Kappa
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Works

• Halbert White: Asymptotic Theory For Econometricians. Academic Press, San Diego 1984, ISBN 0-12-746650-9
• A. Ronald Gallant and Halbert White: A Unified Theory of Estimation and Inference for Nonlinear Dynamic Models. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1988, ISBN 0-631-15765-4
• Halbert White: Estimation, Inference and Specification Analysis. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [ua ] 1994, ISBN 0-521-25280-6