Pietro Balestra

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 884 citations indexed

About

Pietro Balestra is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Statistics and Probability and General Economics, Econometrics and Finance. According to data from OpenAlex, Pietro Balestra has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 884 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 4 papers in Statistics and Probability and 3 papers in General Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Recurrent topics in Pietro Balestra's work include Global Energy and Sustainability Research (4 papers), Advanced Statistical Methods and Models (4 papers) and Statistical and numerical algorithms (2 papers). Pietro Balestra is often cited by papers focused on Global Energy and Sustainability Research (4 papers), Advanced Statistical Methods and Models (4 papers) and Statistical and numerical algorithms (2 papers). Pietro Balestra collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, France and United States. Pietro Balestra's co-authors include Marc Nerlove, Jaya Krishnakumar, Dennis J. Aigner, Syoum Négassi, Mauro Baranzini, Jan Kmenta, Dan Schendel, Simonetta Galgani, Marinella Giulianelli and Valerio Tozzi and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Econometrica and Journal of Econometrics.

In The Last Decade

Pietro Balestra

18 papers receiving 674 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Pooling Cross Section and Time Series Data in the Estimation of a Dynamic Model: The Demand for Natural Gas

1966 663 citations Pietro Balestra, Marc Nerlove Econometrica profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pietro Balestra Switzerland	10	590	167	160	95	66	18	884
Carlos Lamarche United States	14	589 1.0×	140 0.8×	159 1.0×	117 1.2×	75 1.1×	39	853
Panagiotis Mantalos Sweden	11	622 1.1×	146 0.9×	293 1.8×	42 0.4×	170 2.6×	28	753
Richard Pierse United Kingdom	12	807 1.4×	335 2.0×	417 2.6×	53 0.6×	203 3.1×	21	1.1k
Stephen Ryan United States	10	637 1.1×	215 1.3×	86 0.5×	27 0.3×	44 0.7×	22	1.0k
Ragnar Frisch Norway	11	689 1.2×	48 0.3×	258 1.6×	27 0.3×	51 0.8×	45	964
Guy Judge United Kingdom	12	344 0.6×	288 1.7×	94 0.6×	17 0.2×	55 0.8×	33	666
Gérard Gaudet Canada	14	637 1.1×	191 1.1×	182 1.1×	16 0.2×	89 1.3×	47	817
Roy F. Gilbert United States	8	439 0.7×	58 0.3×	204 1.3×	128 1.3×	94 1.4×	19	699
Marco Capasso Italy	13	543 0.9×	53 0.3×	232 1.4×	51 0.5×	137 2.1×	37	831
Allan P. Layton Australia	16	578 1.0×	99 0.6×	324 2.0×	19 0.2×	185 2.8×	58	868

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18 of 18 papers shown

Tozzi, Valerio, Pietro Balestra, Simonetta Galgani, et al.. (2001). Changes in Neurocognitive Performance in a Cohort of Patients Treated With HAART for 3 Years. JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 28(1). 19–27. 5 indexed citations

Balestra, Pietro & Syoum Négassi. (1992). A random coefficient simultaneous equation system with an application to direct foreign investiment by French firms. Empirical Economics. 17(1). 205–220. 9 indexed citations

Aigner, Dennis J. & Pietro Balestra. (1988). Optimal Experimental Design for Error Components Models. Econometrica. 56(4). 955–955. 23 indexed citations

Balestra, Pietro. (1987). Budget for 1987. European Economic Review. 31(1-2). 505–505. 1 indexed citations

Balestra, Pietro & Jaya Krishnakumar. (1987). Full Information Estimations of a System of Simultaneous Equations with Error Component Structure. Econometric Theory. 3(2). 223–246. 32 indexed citations

Balestra, Pietro & Jan Kmenta. (1984). Missing Measurements in a Regression Problem With No Auxiliary Relations. Deep Blue (University of Michigan). 8 indexed citations

Balestra, Pietro. (1983). A note on amemiya's partially generalized least squares. Journal of Econometrics. 23(2). 285–290. 3 indexed citations

Balestra, Pietro. (1980). A note on the exact transformation associated with the first-order moving average process. Journal of Econometrics. 14(3). 381–394. 20 indexed citations

Balestra, Pietro. (1975). Statistical decomposition analysis with applications in the social and administrative sciences. Journal of Econometrics. 3(3). 319–319. 21 indexed citations

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Balestra, Pietro. (1973). Best quadratic unbiased estimators of the variance-covariance matrix in normal regression. Journal of Econometrics. 1(1). 17–28. 28 indexed citations

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Balestra, Pietro & Mauro Baranzini. (1971). SOME OPTIMAL ASPECTS IN A TWO CLASS GROWTH MODEL WITH A DIFFERENTIATED INTEREST RATE. Kyklos. 24(2). 240–256. 9 indexed citations

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Khazzoom, J. Daniel & Pietro Balestra. (1970). The Demand for Natural Gas in the U.S.--A Dynamic Approach for the Residential and Commercial Market. Econometrica. 38(6). 946–946. 2 indexed citations

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Balestra, Pietro. (1970). On the Efficiency of Ordinary Least-Squares in Regression Models. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 65(331). 1330–1330. 6 indexed citations

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Balestra, Pietro. (1970). On the Efficiency of Ordinary Least-Squares in Regression Models. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 65(331). 1330–1337. 20 indexed citations

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Schendel, Dan & Pietro Balestra. (1969). Rational Behavior and Gasoline Price Wars. Applied Economics. 1(2). 89–101. 5 indexed citations

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Balestra, Pietro, et al.. (1967). The Demand for Natural Gas in the United States.. Economica. 34(136). 442–442. 25 indexed citations

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Balestra, Pietro, et al.. (1967). The Demand for Natural Gas in the United States: A Dynamic Approach for the Residential and Commercial Market.. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (General). 130(4). 584–584. 4 indexed citations

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Balestra, Pietro & Marc Nerlove. (1966). Pooling Cross Section and Time Series Data in the Estimation of a Dynamic Model: The Demand for Natural Gas. Econometrica. 34(3). 585–585. 663 indexed citations breakdown →

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