Jean-François Richard is a Belgian-American economist, who is currently the distinguished university professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh. He has taught and done research at five major universities, primarily in the field of econometrics. His interests are auctions, computational methods, collusions, Bayesian methods and econometric modeling. He has been extensively involved as author, editor, and advisor with scholarly publications in econometrics and related fields.
Education
He earned his License in Physics in 1965, his License in Economics in 1968, and his Ph.D in 1973, all from the University of Louvain.
Career
Richard is a distinguished university professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh. He also holds an appointment in the department of statistics. Prior to coming to Pittsburgh in 1991, he held teaching and research positions at the University of Louvain, University of Chicago, London School of Economics, University of London, and Duke University. His research interests include econometric modeling, time series, Bayesian methods, and empirical game theoretic models of auctions and collusion. He is also interested in computational methods relying upon Monte Carlo simulations. At the University of Pittsburgh, Richard has taught multiple courses in the Economics Department. He has taught general and advanced courses in Econometrics and an introductory course on properly applying mathematical models to the social sciences.
Honors
Prix des Alumni de la Fondation Universitaire, 1979
Jean-François Richard has been extensively involved with publications in econometrics and related fields. He is the author or coauthor of over 100 publications listed in Google Scholar, including:
Bayesian Analysis of the Regression Model when the Disturbances are Generated by an Autoregressive Process, in New Developments in the Applications of Bayesian Methods,, edited by Aykac, A. and C. Brumat, North Holland, 1977, 185-210.
His 1973 paper "Exogeneity" has been cited over 2,250 times in other publications. He has held editorial positions at five economics journals and the series Advanced Textbooks in Economics, and has served as a referee for eighteen journals.
