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Alexis Akira Toda

Associate Professor of Economics

I am interested in the foundation of numerical methods used in economic modeling. Relevant publications include "Discrete Approximations of Continuous Distributions by Maximum Entropy (http://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2012.12.020), "Discretizing Distributions with Exact Moments: Error Estimate and Convergence Analysis" (http://doi.org/10.1137/140971269), "Discretizing Nonlinear, Non-Gaussian Markov Processes with Exact Conditional Moments" (https://doi.org/10.3982/QE737), "Data-based Automatic Discretization of Nonparametric Distributions" (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10614-020-10012-6), among others.