Amos Golan Professor Economics
- Degrees
- PhD, University of California at Berkeley
MS, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
BA, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Bio
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Amos Golan directs the at 麻豆视频. His main area of research is information, information processing and optimal decision rules based on efficient use of information (Info-Metrics). Golan is also
- Fellow, AAAS
- External Professor, The Santa Fe Institute
- Senior Associate, Pembroke College, Oxford (August, 2016 鈥 September, 2021)
- 2020-2021 Outstanding Paper Award,
- 2019
- Fellow (Editorial),
- Elected Member, International Statistical Institute
- Member, Inequality: Measurement, Interpretation, and Policy Network of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group (HCEO)
- Senior Fellow, Rimini Center for Economic Analysis
- Visiting Fellowship (3 years); St. Cross College, Oxford (2013-2016)
- NSF/American Statistical Association/Census Senior Research Fellow
- Senior Fellow, European Institutes for Advanced Studies (EURIAS), University of Bologna
- Research Fellow, The Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany)
- Outstanding Scholarship, Research, and Other Professional Contributions (2008), 麻豆视频
- See Also
- For the Media
- To request an interview for a news story, call 麻豆视频 Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Selected Publications
Selected Recent Works
- (with J. Harte),听Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences听(PNAS), 2022. 听
- . Understanding the Constraints in Maximum Entropy Methods for Modeling and Inference (with D. Foley),听IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2023 (). 听
- (with M. Dunn), Advances in Info-Metrics: Information and Information Processing across Disciplines (OUP), 2021. 听
- ,听The Complex Alternative: Complexity Scientists on the Covid-19 Pandemic, 461-472. 听
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- 听(with W. Greene and J. Perloff), Plos one 16 (4) 听
Books
- Amos Golan, (2018), Oxford University Press. 听
- Jeffrey M. Perloff, Larry S. Karp, Amos Golan (2007),, Cambridge University Press. 听
- Amos Golan, George G. Judge, Douglas Miller (1996), , John Wiley & Sons.听
Selected Articles
- Golan, A., , Minds and Machines (2018). 听
- Golan, A. and A. Ullah, Interval estimation: An Information Theoretic Approach, Econometric Reviews (2017). 听
- A.听Golan and R. Lumsdaine, "On the Construction of Prior Information - An Info-Metrics Approach," Advances in Econometrics 36 (2016). 听
- Henderson, H., A.听Golan and S. Seabold, "," Economic Letters 127 (2015), 1-5. 听
- Chen, M. and A. Golan, "What May Visualization Processes Optimize?" 听
- A. Golan and A. Caticha, "" Physica A:听Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications, August 2014. 听
- in Minds and Machines, February 2014. 听
- On the Foundations and Philosophy of Info-Metrics in Lucture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Proceedings Volume 7318. 听
- A. Golan, "" (with Henryk Gzyl) in Entropy 2012, 14(5), 892-923. 听
- (with William Greene) Handbook of Empirical Economics and Finance, Edited by Aman Ullah and David E. A. Giles, Chapman and Hall/CRC 2010, Pages 71-86. 听
- A. Golan and H. Gzyl, "," Entropy 2010, 12(6), 1569-1580. 听
- Identifying Strategies and Beliefs Without Rationality Assumptions (with James Bono) to paper听(older version). 听
- (with Jeff Perloff and William Greene). 听
- A. Golan, "," Foundations and Trends庐 in Econometrics: Vol. 2: No 1鈥2, pp 1-145 (A printed and bound version of this article is available at a 50% discount from Now Publishers. This can be obtained by entering the promotional code MC08004 on the order form at now publishers. You will then pay $45/Euro plus postage).
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A. Golan and E. Maasoumi, "" (2008)
- A. Golan, "," Journal of Econometrics (2007).
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A. Golan, J. Lane and E. McEntarfe, "The Dynamics of Worker Reallocation within and Across Industries." Economica (2007) 74, 1-20
- X. Wu, J. Perloff and A. Golan, "Effect of Government Policies on Urban and Rural Income Inequality," Review of Income and Wealth (2006) 52, 213-235.
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A. Golan, A. Bhati and B. Buyuksahin, "An Information-Theoretic Approach for Image Reconstruction: The Black and White Case" in Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering: 25th International Workshop (MAXENT 2005), K. Knuth, ed. (2005).
- U.V. Toussaint, A. Golan and V. Dose and, "." Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A 22(2), Mar/Apr 2004, 401-406.
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A. Golan and J. M. Perloff, "," Review of Economics and Statistics 88(1), 2004, 433-438.
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A. Golan, E. Moretti and J. M. Perloff, "," Econometric Reviews 23(1), 2004, 71-91.
- A. Golan and L. Marsh, "An Information Theoretic Approach to Estimating Missing Categorical Dependent Variable Values," American Statistical Association Proceedings (2004).
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A. Golan "An Information Theoretic Approach for Estimating Nonlinear Dynamic Models," Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics (December, 2003) Vol. 7: No. 4.
- A. Golan and H. Gzyl, Priors and Information-Theoretic Estimation, American Statistical Association Proceedings (2003).
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A. Golan and H. Gzyl, "A Generalized Maxentropic Inversion Procedure for Noisy data," Applied Mathematics and Computation 127 (2002) 249-260.
- A. Golan, "," J. Econometrics 107, 1-2 (2002), 1-15.
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A. Golan and J. M. Perloff, "" J. Econometrics 107, 1-2 (2002), 195-211.
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A. Golan and D. Volker, ", R. Fry, ed. (Am. Inst. Physics, Forthcoming).
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A. Golan and D. Volker, "," J. of Physics A: Mathematical and General (2001) 1271-1283.
- A. Golan, "" J. Econometrics (January, 2001), 101:1, 165-193. (Incomplete version)
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A. Golan, L. Karp and J. M. Perloff, 鈥," J. Bus. Econ. Stat. (October, 2000), 18: 4, 398-409.
- A. Golan, J. M. Perloff and Z. Shen, ," Review of Economics and Statistics (2001), 83(3), 541-550.
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Golan and S. Vogel, 鈥淓conomic Systems Research (December, 2000), 12:4, 447-471.
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M. Crouchane, A. Golan and D. Nickerson, "," J. Housing Research (2000), 11:1, 67-90.
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Y. Agnon, A. Golan and M. Shearer, "," Econ. Letters 65 (1999) 293-299.
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A. Golan, 鈥淢aximum Entropy Approach for Estimating Nonlinear Dynamic Models,鈥 Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods, W. V. D. Linden and V. Dose, ed. (Kluwer Academic Press, 1999).
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A. Golan, E. Moretti and J. Perloff, "."
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A. Golan, E. Moretti and J. Perloff, "An Informational Based Sample-Selection Estimation Model of Agricultural Workers Choice Between Piece-Rate and Hourly Work," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 81 (1999) 735-741.
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A. Golan, "Maximum Entropy, Likelihood and Uncertainty: A Comparison," Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods, G. Erickson, ed. (Kluwer Academic Press, 1998).
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A. Golan, G. G. Judge and J. Perloff, "," Journal of Econometrics 79 (1997) 23-51.
- A.Golan, G. G. Judge and D. Miller, ," Handbook of Applied Economic Statistics, D. Giles and A. Ullah, eds. (Marcel Dekker, 1998) 365-380. 听
- A. Golan, G. Judge, and J. Perloff, "," Journal of the American Statistical Association 91 (1996) 841-853. 听
- A. Golan, G. Judge, and L. Karp, "" Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 20 (1996) 559-582. 听
- A. Golan, G. Judge, and J. Perloff, "," The Journal of Industrial Economics 44 (1996) 69-80. 听
- A. Golan, G. Judge, and S. Robinson, "," The Review of Economics and Statistics 76 (1994) 541-549. 听
- A. Golan, "" Mathematical Social Sciences 21 (1991) 261-286. 听
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Research Interests
- Info-Metrics and Information Processing: see
- Information Theoretic Methods of Estimation &听Inference
- Information and Entropy Econometrics:
- Statistics and Information Systems
- Image Reconstruction:
- Econometrics/Micro-econometrics (Theory and Applied)
- Policy and Applied Micro Economics
- Linear and Nonlinear Dynamics of Economic Systems and Data
See also:
- The 2nd Conference on Information and Entropy Econometrics: In Honor of George Judge (Sept. 23-25, 2005)
- Information and Entropy Econometrics: A Conference in Honor of A. Zellner (Sept. 19-23, 2003)
Honors, Awards, & Fellowships
- NSF/ASA/Census Senior Research Fellow
- Research Fellow - The Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany)
- Elected Member 鈥 International Statistical Institute
- 麻豆视频's Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Research, and Other Professional Contributions (2008)
- Senior Visiting Fellowship (2007) - Institute of Advanced Study (University of Bologna)
- Visiting Fellowship / Appointment--St. Cross College, Oxford (2013-2016)
Professional Services
Editorial Services
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Guest Editor, . Special Two-Issues on 鈥淚nformation and Entropy Econometrics,鈥 (Volume 107, Issues 1-2, March, 2002).
- Guest Co-Editor (with Y. Kitamura), . Special Issue on 鈥淚nformation and Entropy Econometrics,鈥 based on selected papers presented at the IEE Conference (2007).
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Guest Co-Editor (with E. Maasoumi), . Special Issue on 鈥淚nformation and Entropy Econometrics,鈥 based on selected papers presented at the IEE2 Conference.
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Guest Co-Editor (with E. Maasoumi), . Special Issue on Info-Metrics: Theory and Applications in the Social Sciences," based on selected papers presented at the Info-Metrics Fall, 2010 Conference.
- Editorial Board and Associate Editor: Econometric Reviews
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Editorial Board:
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Editorial Board (until 2006): , An On-Line International and Interdisciplinary Journal of Entropy and Information Studies 听
Selected Additional Special Courses and Tutorials
- Chiang Mai University, Thailand: Info-Metrics Tutorial (May 2013, January 2014) 听
- Info-Metrics Institute:听Two-Day Info-Metrics Tutorial (July 2012, July 2013) 听
- 麻豆视频:听Five-Day Info-Metrics Tutorial (July 2011) 听
- Mongolian Central Bank and Ministry of Finance; New and Information-Theoretic Econometrics 鈥 Training on analyzing complex and incomplete data (June, 2007).The Netherlands Network of Economics, one/two week course on New and Information-Theoretic Econometrics (May, 1997; June, 2001; June, 2004). 听
- The Scandinavia Network of Universities, one week course on New and Maximum Entropy Econometrics (Copenhagen, May, 1999).The Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, one week course on New and Maximum Entropy Econometrics (Munich, Germany, July, 1999). 听
- Economic Research Service 鈥 USDA, one week course on New and Maximum Entropy Econometrics (Washington, DC, October 2000).C Berkeley, two weeks course on New and Maximum Entropy Econometrics (1996, 1998). 听