Danny Quah
| Danny Quah | |
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Danny Quah, University of London KL Lecture, 23 April 2013. Podium
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| Native name | 柯成兴 |
| Born |
July 26, 1958 Penang, The Federation of Malaya |
| Nationality | British |
| Institution | Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy |
| Field |
Macroeconomics Development International Relations |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University Princeton University |
| Doctoral advisor |
Thomas Sargent |
| Influences | Olivier Blanchard, Robert Keohane, Joseph Nye, John Mearsheimer, Kishore Mahbubani |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Danny Quah (Chinese: 柯成兴) is Li Ka Shing Professor of Economics at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. Quah's work includes contributions to the fields of economic growth, development economics, monetary economics, macroeconometrics, and the weightless economy. Quah is best known for his research on estimation techniques for disentangling the effects of different disturbances on economies, for his studies on economic growth and convergence across nation states, and for his analyses of large-scale shifts in the global economy.
Quah was born in Penang, in the Federation of Malaya which later became Malaysia, and attended the Penang Free School before leaving for university studies in the United States.
Quah obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard University under Thomas Sargent in 1986 and his A.B. from Princeton University in 1980. He worked as assistant professor of economics at MIT before joining the Economics Department at LSE in 1991. Quah was, for 2006–2009, Head of the Economics Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was, through 2016, Professor of Economics and International Development, and founding Director of the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre at LSE. Quah joined the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS as Li Ka Shing Professor of Economics in August 2016.
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