Teunis (Teun) Kloek (born 1934) is a Dutch

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and Emeritus Professor of

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at the Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam. His research interests centered on econometric methods and their applications, especially nonparametric and robust methods in econometrics.

Biography

Kloek received his PhD in 1966 from the Erasmus University Rotterdam for the thesis "Indexcijfers : enige methodologische aspecten" (Index : some methodological aspects) under supervision of

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. Kloek was appointed Professor of Econometrics at the Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam in 1967. With Alexander Rinnooy Kan and later Harm Bart, he was co-director of the Econometric Institute from 1982 to 1992 as successor of Willem Somermeyer and was succeeded by

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(2005)
Annual Report 2004: Econometric Institute
' p. 7 Since his retirement in 1997 Kloek has been affiliated with the

Tinbergen Institute The Tinbergen Institute is a leading research and graduate education institute for Economics and Business. Established in 1987, the institute is named afteJan Tinbergen a Nobel laureate in economics (1969), and is a collaboration between the School ...

. Some of Kloek's most notable doctoral students were Herman K. van Dijk (1984) and

(1991). Kloek was elected fellow of the

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in 1978 and of the ''

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'', and honorary fellow of the

Publications

Books, a selection:List of publications
at National Library of the Netherlands. * Kloek, T.,

and John C.G. Boot. '' Operations Research and Quantitative Economics: an elementary introduction.'' With McGraw-Hill, 1965. * Heij, C., De Boer, P., Franses, P. H., Kloek, T., & Van Dijk, H. K.
Econometric methods with applications in business and economics
'' Oxford University Press, 2004. Articles, a selection: * * Kloek, T.; Mennes, L.B.M. (1960), "Simultaneous equations estimation based on principal components of predetermined variables." ''Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society'' 28: 45–61. * Kloek, T.; Theil, H. (1965), "International comparison of prices and quantities consumed." ''Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society'' 33: 535–556. * Kloek, T.; Barten, A.P.; Lempers, F.B.M. (1969), "A note on a class of utility and production functions yielding everywhere differentiable demand functions." ''The Review of Economic Studies.'' 36: 109–111. * Kloek, T.; Van Dijk, Herman K. (1978),
Bayesian estimates of equation system parameters: an application of integration by Monte Carlo
" ''Econometrica'' 46.1: 1-19. * Kloek, T.; Van Dijk, Herman K. (1980),
Further experience in Bayesian analysis using Monte Carlo integration
" Journal of Econometrics 14.3: 307–328. * Kloek, Teun. "OLS estimation in a model where a microvariable is explained by aggregates and contemporaneous disturbances are equicorrelated." ''Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society'' (1981): 205–207. * Kloek, T.; Van Praag, Bernard; de Leeuw, Jan (1986), "The population‐sample decomposition approach to multivariate estimation methods." ''Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis'' 2.3: 99-119. * Kloek, T.; van Dijk, Herman K. (1978), "Efficient estimation of income distribution parameters." ''Journal of Econometrics'' 8.1: 61–74.

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