Anton Barten Explained

Anton Barten
Birth Date:14 January 1930
Field:Econometrics
Alma Mater:Erasmus University Rotterdam
Doctoral Advisor:Henri Theil

Anton Peter Barten (14 January 1930 – 15 June 2016)[1] [2] was a Dutch economist.

Barten was born in Amsterdam.[1] He studied economics at the University of Amsterdam and obtained his PhD at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.[3] He worked at the Econometric Institute at the same university in the late 1950s. He there developed in interest in consumer demand.[4] In 1966 Barten started working at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics in Leuven, Belgium, which had been set up by Jacques Drèze.[5]

In the late 1980s Barten was involved in setting up the Center for Economic Research at Tilburg University (centER) in the Netherlands. He became the first director of the center. Barten later returned to Leuven, to take up a position at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.[6] In 2008 Barten was awarded the Tjalling Koopmans medal by Tilburg University for his role in the foundation of centER.[7]

Barten became a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1984.[8] He became member of the Academia Europaea in 1990.[9] He was a Fellow of the Econometric Society.[10] Barten died in Leuven.[2] [11]

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Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=gzNvCGJEGCYC&pg=PA251 Barten, A.P.
  2. Web site: De heer Anton Barten . Dutch . pues.be . 17 June 2016.
  3. Harry van Dalen (1994) De kwaliteit van Nederlandse economische onderzoekers, Economisch Statistische Berichten: Algemeen Weekblad voor Handel, Nijverheid, Financiën en Verkeerr, 79(3990), 1168-1171.
  4. Book: H. Theil. Studies in Global Econometrics. 31 January 1996. Springer Science & Business Media. 978-0-7923-3660-0. 2.
  5. Web site: Ivo Maes & Erik Buyst . Migration and Americanization: The special case of Belgian economics . Euro J. History of Economic Thought . March 2005 . 21 February 2016.
  6. Web site: Frank van den Nieuwenhuijzen . CentER zette wetenschap op zijn kop . Dutch . Univers . 8 January 2015 . 21 February 2016.
  7. Web site: Newsletter Tilburg School of Economics and Management . Tilburg University . 18 June 2008 . 21 February 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303052645/http://uvtapp.uvt.nl/fsw/spits.nb_lib.frmToonNieuwsbrief?v_nieuwsbrief_id=16896&v_rubriek_id=0&v_taal= . 3 March 2016 . dead .
  8. Web site: Anton Barten . https://web.archive.org/web/20160221104355/https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/correspondents/3836 . Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences . 21 February 2016 . 21 February 2016.
  9. Web site: Anton Barten . Academia Europaea . 21 February 2016.
  10. Web site: Prof Anton P Barten . The Econometric Society . 21 February 2016 . 9 December 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191209091335/https://www.econometricsociety.org/users/prof-anton-p-barten/1067542 . dead .
  11. https://feb.kuleuven.be/home/les/documenten/obituary-barten.pdf OBITUARY Anton Barten (1930-2016)

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