Whitney K. Newey Explained

Whitney K. Newey
Birth Date:	July 17, 1954
Birth Place:	United States
Institution:	MIT
Field:	Econometrics
Alma Mater:	MIT (Ph.D.) BYU (B.A.)
Doctoral Advisor:	Jerry A. Hausman^[1]
Doctoral Students:	Yacine Ait-Sahalia^[2] Alberto Abadie^[3] Susanne Schennach^[4]
Contributions:	Newey–West estimator
Repec Prefix:	f
Repec Id:	pne241

Whitney Kent Newey (born July 17, 1954) is the Jane Berkowitz Carlton and Dennis William Carlton Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a well-known econometrician. He is best known for developing, with Kenneth D. West, the Newey–West estimator, which robustly estimates the covariance matrix of a regression model when errors are heteroskedastic and autocorrelated.

Education and academic career

Newey received his B.A. from Brigham Young University in 1978, and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983, under supervision of Jerry A. Hausman. From 1983 to 1988, Newey taught at Princeton University as an assistant professor. He was then promoted to Associate Professor and taught there for another two year from 1988 to 1990. It is also during these two years, he became a Member of Technical Staff, Bell Communications Research.^[5] During his time in Princeton University, he published many papers on econometrics.^[6] After 7 years in Princeton, he returned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Professor in the department of Economics in 1990 and has been in the department of Economics since then. From 2011 to 2016, he was also the chair of Economics.

External links

• Newey's faculty page at MIT
• Professor Whitney Newey and Thai T. Pham SB '13

Publications

• Newey. Whitney K.. 1 . 1985 . Generalized Method of Moments Specification Testing . . 29 . 3 . 229–256 . 10.1016/0304-4076(85)90154-X .
• Newey. Whitney K.. 1. Powell, James L. . 1987 . Asymmetric Least Squares Estimation and Testing . . 5 . 4 . 819–847 . 10.2307/1911031. 1911031.
• Newey. Whitney K.. 1. 1989 . Adaptive estimation of regression models via moment restrictions . . 38 . 3 . 301–339. 10.1016/0304-4076(88)90048-6 .
• Newey. Whitney K.. 1. Powell, James L. . 1990 . Efficient Estimation of Linear and Type I Censored Regression Models Under Conditional Quantile Restrictions . . 6 . 3 . 295–317 . 10.1017/S0266466600005284. 119782828 .
• Newey. Whitney K.. 1 . 1990 . Efficient Instrumental Variables Estimation of Nonlinear Models . . 58 . 4 . 809–837. 10.2307/2938351. 2938351 .
• Newey. Whitney K.. 1 . 1991 . Uniform Convergence in Probability and Stochastic Equicontinuity . . 59 . 4 . 1161–1167. 10.2307/2938179. 2938179 .
• Newey. Whitney K.. 1 . 1994 . The Asymptotic Variance of Semiparametric Estimators . . 62 . 6 . 1349–1382. 10.2307/2951752. 2951752 . 1721.1/63275 . free .
• Newey. Whitney K.. 1 . 1994 . Series Estimation of Regression Functionals . . 10 . 1 . 1–28. 3532652 . 10.1017/S0266466600008203 . 123138033 .
• Newey. Whitney K.. 1. 2004 . Efficient Estimation Of Semiparametric Models Via Moment Restrictions. . 72 . 6 . 1877–1897. 3598771 . 10.1111/j.1468-0262.2004.00557.x .

Notes and References

1. https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/15496/11246206-MIT.pdf?sequence=2 Specification testing and estimation using a generalized method of moments
2. https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/12689 Nonparametric functional estimation with applications to financial models
3. Abadie . Alberto . 1999 . Semiparametric Instrumental Variable Methods for Causal Response Model . Ph.D. . . 10 March 2017 .
4. Web site: Susanne Schennach - the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
5. Web site: WHITNEY K. NEWEY - Personal Data . 2023-10-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181208153244/http://economics.mit.edu/faculty/wnewey/cv . 2018-12-08.
6. Web site: NO.