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Place of Birth: Windsor, Ontario, Canada
About Stan Zin
- Stanley Eugene Zin is a Canadian economist.
- He is the William R.
- Berkley Professor Economics and Business at the Leonard N.
- Stern School of Business, New York University. His research interests are in the areas of asset pricing and macroeconomics.
- He is well known for his work on Epstein–Zin preferences which provide a recursive specification of a utility function which separates the elasticity of intertemporal substitution from the coefficient of relative risk aversion.
- For this contribution he was awarded the Frisch Medal by the Econometric Society. Previously, from 1988 to 2009 he was the Richard M.
- Cyert and Morris H.
- DeGroot Professor of Economics and Statistics at the David A.
- Tepper School of Business (previously the Graduate School of Industrial Administration) at Carnegie Mellon University, and is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Zin received his undergraduate education at the University of Windsor (B.A.
- in Economics; 1979) and his graduate training at Wayne State University (Master of Economics; 1981), and the University of Toronto (Ph.D in Economics; 1987).
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