Oliver Bruce Linton is a British econometrician and professor of political economy at the University of Cambridge, where he is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. His research is in econometric theory and its applications, particularly nonparametric and semiparametric methods, time-series econometrics and financial econometrics.
Linton is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Econometric Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He received a Humboldt Research Award in 2015 and served as president of the Society for Financial Econometrics from 2021 to 2023.
Education and academic career
Linton received his PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991. From 1991 to 1993 he was a Junior Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. He joined Yale University in 1993, initially as an assistant professor, and was subsequently an associate and full professor there.
In 1999 Linton moved to the London School of Economics, where he was Professor of Econometrics until 2011. In 2011 he joined the University of Cambridge as Professor of Political Economy and became a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
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