Dr. Alastair Hall

Biography

Alastair received a BA with first class honours in Economics from Warwick University in 1981, followed by an MSc in Economics and Econometrics from Southampton University in 1983, and a PhD in Economics from Warwick in 1985. He joined the University of Manchester in January 2007, having previously worked at North Carolina State University where he was appointed a full professor in 1992. His affiliations include distinguished adjunct professor at American University in Washington, DC, and he has held visiting positions at institutions such as the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Alastair has published extensively in leading econometrics and statistics journals, including Econometrica, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, and the Journal of Econometrics. His book, 'Generalized Method Moments', published by Oxford University Press in 2005, is part of the Advanced Texts in Econometrics series. Alastair has also served in various editorial roles, including co-editor of the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics and associate editor for several econometrics journals. His current research interests focus on theoretical econometrics, statistical inference, and moment-based estimation methods, among others.

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