- Danny Quah
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Danny Quah (born July 26, 1958 in Malaysia) 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 [1]. Quah's work includes important contributions to the fields of Economic Growth, Development Economics, Monetary Economics, Macro-Econometrics, and more recently the Weightless Economy[2].
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.
Papers
- Post 1990s East Asian economic growth, October 2008
External links
Categories:- ISI highly cited researchers
- Living people
- Harvard University alumni
- Princeton University alumni
- Harvard University faculty
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
- University of Minnesota faculty
- Academics of the London School of Economics
- 1958 births
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