Danny Quah
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Danny Quah is Professor of Economics
and Co-Director LSE Global Governance at the London School of Economics and Political Science
. He is currently Council Member on Malaysia's National Economic Advisory Council, Consultant for Bank of England, World Bank, and Monetary Authority of Singapore. He is assistant professor of economics at MIT, visiting assistant Professor of economics at Harvard University, visiting Professor of Economics at Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, visiting professor of economics at Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management http://econ.lse.ac.uk/~dquah/index_own.html. Quah's work includes important contributions to the fields of Economic Growth
, Development Economics
, Monetary Economics
, Macro
-Econometrics
, and more recently the Weightless Economyhttp://econ.lse.ac.uk/~dquah/tweirl0.html.
Quah obtained his Ph.D.
from Harvard University
under Thomas Sargent in 1986 and his A.B.
from Princeton University
in 1980. He was formerly Head of Department for Economics at London School of Economics and Political Science
(2006–2009). Other work experience includes stints at MIT, Harvard, and the University of Minnesota
.
Among his most cited works are his paper on Vector Autoregressions
with Olivier Blanchard
, his paper on the convergence of Twin Peaked income distributions, and his work as a graduate student
on the appendix to the famous Monetarist
paper, "Some Unpleasant Monetarist Arithmetic", a paper that is considered to be a significant contribution to the field of Monetary Economics.
Economics
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
and Co-Director LSE Global Governance at the London School of Economics and Political Science
London School of Economics
The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...
. He is currently Council Member on Malaysia's National Economic Advisory Council, Consultant for Bank of England, World Bank, and Monetary Authority of Singapore. He is assistant professor of economics at MIT, visiting assistant Professor of economics at Harvard University, visiting Professor of Economics at Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, visiting professor of economics at Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management http://econ.lse.ac.uk/~dquah/index_own.html. Quah's work includes important contributions to the fields of Economic Growth
Economic growth
In economics, economic growth is defined as the increasing capacity of the economy to satisfy the wants of goods and services of the members of society. Economic growth is enabled by increases in productivity, which lowers the inputs for a given amount of output. Lowered costs increase demand...
, Development Economics
Development economics
Development Economics is a branch of economics which deals with economic aspects of the development process in low-income countries. Its focus is not only on methods of promoting economic growth and structural change but also on improving the potential for the mass of the population, for example,...
, Monetary Economics
Monetarism
Monetarism is a tendency in economic thought that emphasizes the role of governments in controlling the amount of money in circulation. It is the view within monetary economics that variation in the money supply has major influences on national output in the short run and the price level over...
, Macro
Macroeconomics
Macroeconomics is a branch of economics dealing with the performance, structure, behavior, and decision-making of the whole economy. This includes a national, regional, or global economy...
-Econometrics
Econometrics
Econometrics has been defined as "the application of mathematics and statistical methods to economic data" and described as the branch of economics "that aims to give empirical content to economic relations." More precisely, it is "the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on...
, and more recently the Weightless Economyhttp://econ.lse.ac.uk/~dquah/tweirl0.html.
Quah obtained his Ph.D.
Ph.D.
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from Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
under Thomas Sargent in 1986 and his A.B.
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
from Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
in 1980. He was formerly Head of Department for Economics at London School of Economics and Political Science
London School of Economics
The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...
(2006–2009). Other work experience includes stints at MIT, Harvard, and the University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...
.
Among his most cited works are his paper on Vector Autoregressions
Vector autoregression
Vector autoregression is a statistical model used to capture the linear interdependencies among multiple time series. VAR models generalize the univariate autoregression models. All the variables in a VAR are treated symmetrically; each variable has an equation explaining its evolution based on...
with Olivier Blanchard
Olivier Blanchard
Olivier Jean Blanchard is currently the chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, a post he has held since September 1, 2008. He is also the Class of 1941 Professor of Economics at MIT, though he is currently on leave. Blanchard is one of the most cited economists in the world, according...
, his paper on the convergence of Twin Peaked income distributions, and his work as a graduate student
Graduate school
A graduate school is a school that awards advanced academic degrees with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous undergraduate degree...
on the appendix to the famous Monetarist
Monetarism
Monetarism is a tendency in economic thought that emphasizes the role of governments in controlling the amount of money in circulation. It is the view within monetary economics that variation in the money supply has major influences on national output in the short run and the price level over...
paper, "Some Unpleasant Monetarist Arithmetic", a paper that is considered to be a significant contribution to the field of Monetary Economics.
Papers
- Post 1990s East Asian economic growth, October 2008