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Eric Ghysels has been named to the first Edward M. Bernstein distinguished
professor chair in economics as of July 1.
An established scholar in the fields of econometrics and finance, Ghysels also
holds an appointment as professor of finance at the Kenan-Flagler Business
School.
He has been a visiting professor or scholar at major U.S., European and Asian
universities. He lectured at the 1999 (EC)2 conference on financial
econometrics, the 1995 Brazilian Econometric Society Meetings, the 1995
American Statistical Association Meetings, and at the 1990 World Congress of
the Econometric Society.
He has served on editorial boards of scientific journals, including the Journal
of the American Statistical Association, the Journal of Business and Economic
Statistics, Econometric Theory, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and the
Journal of Empirical Finance. In 1999 he served as chair of the business and
economics statistics section of the American Statistical Association.
He has published more than 60 research papers in economics, finance and
statistics journals, and he has two forthcoming books. Beginning in January of
2001 he will co-editor the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, along
with Alastair Hall of N.C. State University.
Ghysels obtained his doctorate from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management
of Northwestern University.
The Edward M. Bernstein distinguished professorship was established in 1998 by
the Georges Lurcy charitible and educational trust in honor of Bernstein, the
former Carolina economics professor.
Bernstein was a faculty member during the years prior to World War II. After
the war, he served as chief technical adviser and negotiator at the Bretton
Woods Conference and participated in the formation of the International
Monetary Fund. He stayed in close contact with the University over the years
and remained in touch with the economics department until his death in 1996.
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