Albert Rex Bergstrom (9 July 1925 – 1 May 2005) was a New Zealand econometrician recognised for his work in continuous time

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Biography

Bergstrom was born on 9 July 1925 in

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where he attended

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. He studied at

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part-time from 1942 to 1947 while working in accountancy and serving in the

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. He gained a first-class honours degree in 1948 and subsequently won a travelling scholarship in commerce which he took up in 1952 to do his doctoral work at the

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, completing his

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in 1955. He taught at

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, the

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, the

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, and finally the

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where he became the Keynes Visiting Professor. He died on 1 May 2005.

Festschrift

In May 1992, in occasion of his 65th birthday, a

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was dedicated to Bergstrom under the title ''Models, Methods, and Applications of Econometrics'', which contains various essays authored by some of Bergstrom's former students and colleagues. It was edited by his former student,

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References

General references

Peter CB Philips's Obituary of Bergstrom pdf
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