Yehuda Grunfeld (also Grünfeld; March 11, 1930July 16, 1960) was an

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in the late 1950s.

Personal life

Grunfeld was born on March 11, 1930. On July 16, 1960, the 30-year-old

drowned Drowning is a type of suffocation induced by the submersion of the mouth and nose in a liquid. Most instances of fatal drowning occur alone or in situations where others present are either unaware of the victim's situation or unable to offer as ...

while rescuing his son from an undertow off the coast of Israel.

Career

Hebrew University The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

, Grunfeld received his

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in 1953, and his

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in 1955, both in

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. From 1957–58, Grunfeld was an

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of economics at the

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(UChicago). His 1958

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at UChicago is ''The Determinants of Corporate Investment''; as of 2010, its appendix contained "one of the most widely used data sets in all of econometrics." In 1959, his ''Journal of Business'' article was given the McKinsey Award. By 1960, he was a

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of economics and statistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and scheduled to become a

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at UChicago at the end of July.

References

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