Paul Ruud

Professor

Fields: Econometrics, statistics

Research interests: Simulation and estimation, non-parametric estimation of profit and cost functions, and systems of demands, semi-parametric maximum likelihood estimation of qualitative dependent variable models; maximum likelihood computation, labor supply and taxes, and semi-parametric estimation of limited dependent variable models

Paul A. Ruud joined the Berkeley faculty in 1981, the same year he received his PhD from MIT. He was promoted to full professor in 1993. Professor Ruud served as director of Berkeley's Econometrics Laboratory in 1995-1996. He is a member of the American Economic Association, the American Statistical Association, and is a fellow of the Econometric Society. Professor Ruud has been a reviewer for numerous economic journals and was associate editor of Economic Theory from 1993-1996.