newspapers with an English/Czech dictionary. He later obtained a job emptying and steam-boiling bed pans in a tuberculosis hospital in Randwick. At this time, Sydney University was offering evening courses for servicemen in which Kmenta enrolled, joining other Czechs taking classes while working day jobs. Professor Charles Birch helped advise them regarding administrative procedures for admission to the university and similar matters. Kmenta received his Bachelor of Economics degree with a minor in Statistics with First Class Honors from the University of Sydney in 1955. He won a Fulbright Scholarship and moved to the United States, obtaining a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University in 1964. At Stanford he was influenced by notable professors including Kenneth Arrow and Arthur Goldberger who were developing a rigorous approach to economics and econometrics. Personal life He was married to award-winning Australian filmmaker Barbara Chobocky. Kmenta died on July 24, 2016. Selected works Zellner, Arnold; Kmenta, Jan; Drèze, Jacques (1966). "Specification and Estimation of Cobb–Douglas Production Function Models". Econometrica 34 (4): 784–795. . Kmenta, Jan (1967). “On Estimation of the CES Production Function” International Economic Review 8 (2) available on http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/91902/Kmenta-Estimation_CES_Production_Function.pdf?sequence=1 Kmenta, J.; Gilbert, R (1968). “Small Sample Properties of Alternative Estimators of Seemingly Unrelated Regressions” Journal of the American Statistical Association 1180-1200. Kmenta, J.; Gilbert, R (1970). “Estimation of Seemingly Unrelated Regressions with Autoregressive Disturbances, Journal of the American Statistical Association 186-197. Kmenta, J. (1971, revised ed. 1986). Elements of Econometrics. New York: Macmillan. (Original edition also available in Spanish, Portuguese, Persian, and Croatian) Kmenta, J.: Kreinin, M.E., Ramsey, J.B. (1971). “Factor Substitution and Effective Protection Reconsidered” American Economic Review 61: 891-900. Kmenta, J.; Oberhofer, W. (1973). “Estimation of Standard Errors of the Characteristic Roods of Dynamic Econometric Models” Econometrica 41: 171-177. Kmenta, J.; Smith, P.E. (1973). “Autonomous Expenditures versus Money Supply: An Application of Dynamic Multipliers” Review of Economics and Statistics 55: 229-307. Kmenta, Jan; Oberhofer, W. (1974)“General Procedure for Obtaining Maximum Likelihood Estimates in Generalized Regression Models” Econometrica 42: 572-590 available on http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/91915 Kmenta, J.; Benus, J.; Shapiro, H. (1976). “The Dynamics of Household Budget Allocation to Food Expenditures” Review of Economics and Statistics 58: 129-138. Kmenta, J.; Ramsey, James B., eds. (1981). Large-Scale Macro-Econometric Models: Theory and Practice. New York: North-Holland. . Kmenta, Jan, Lin, Karl (1982). “Ridge Regression Under Alternative Loss Criteria” Review of Economics and Statistics 64: 488-494. Kmenta, Jan, Doran, H. E. (1986). “A Lack-of-fit Test for