Timo Teräsvirta (born 21 January 1941) is a
Finnish economist
An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social science discipline of economics.
The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this field there are ...
. He made notable contributions in
time series analysis
In mathematics, a time series is a series of data points indexed (or listed or graphed) in time order. Most commonly, a time series is a sequence taken at successive equally spaced points in time. Thus it is a sequence of discrete-time data. ...
, working with
Clive Granger
Sir Clive William John Granger (; 4 September 1934 – 27 May 2009) was a British econometrician known for his contributions to nonlinear time series analysis. He taught in Britain, at the University of Nottingham and in the United States, at ...
among others.
Teräsvirta earned his Ph.D. from the
University of Helsinki
The University of Helsinki ( fi, Helsingin yliopisto, sv, Helsingfors universitet, abbreviated UH) is a public research university located in Helsinki, Finland since 1829, but founded in the city of Turku (in Swedish ''Åbo'') in 1640 as the ...
in 1970, under the supervision of
Leo Törnqvist.
References
External links
Profile at Aarhus University
1941 births
Living people
20th-century Finnish economists
University of Helsinki alumni
Academic staff of Aarhus University
Academic staff of the Stockholm School of Economics
21st-century Finnish economists
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