Pierre Perron

{{for|the French general and adventurer|Pierre Cuillier-Perron}}

{{short description|Canadian econometrician}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1959|3|14|mf=y}}

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| nationality = Canadian

| fields = Econometrics

| workplaces = Boston University

| alma_mater = Yale University
Queen's University
McGill University

| doctoral_advisor = Peter C. B. Phillips

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| known_for = Phillips–Perron test

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Pierre Perron (born March 14, 1959) is a Canadian econometrician at Boston University. Perron is known for the Phillips–Perron test of a unit root in time series regression,{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1093/biomet/75.2.335| title = Testing for a Unit Root in Time Series Regression| journal = Biometrika| volume = 75| issue = 2| pages = 335–346| year = 1988| last1 = Phillips | first1 = P. C. B.| last2 = Perron | first2 = P.| url = http://cowles.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/pub/d07/d0795-r.pdf}} which was the result of his Ph.D. studies under Peter C. B. Phillips.