Richard Carter

After graduating from Royal Roads and Royal Military College, I joined Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. While I was with the Patricia's I took an evening course in statistics at the University of Alberta. My success in that course persuaded me to seek a career in inference instead of in infantry, so I entered Queen's University after leaving the army. During my stay at Queen's I studied under T.M. Brown who was interested in the econometrics of simultaneous equations models. I wrote a PhD thesis under his supervision which was concerned with the properties of classical estimators for these models. My first faculty appointment was at the University of Victoria. Shortly after T.M. Brown moved from Queen's to Western I joined him there; first as a research associate then as a regular faculty member. Aside from leaves, the rest of my career was spent at Western: I am a Professor Emeritus in their economics department. Over time my research interests shifted from simultaneous equation econometrics towards several new areas. In the area of econometric theory I have worked on shrinkage estimation in linear regression models and on nonparametric methods. I have also done applied econometrics in the areas of economics and law and the economics of health care. During the last few years I have become convinced that Bayesian methods are better tools for inference in economics than classical methods so my research has been in the area of Bayesian econometrics.