Danny Quah

Danny Quah (born in Malaysia) is Professor of Economics and Kuwait Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Tan Chin Tuan Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore. He served previously as Council Member on Malaysia's National Economic Advisory Council and as Consultant for the Bank of England, the World Bank, and the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Quah has worked as assistant professor of economics at MIT, visiting assistant Professor of economics at Harvard University, and visiting Professor of Economics at Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management and the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore [1]. Quah's work includes important contributions to the fields of Economic Growth, Development Economics, Monetary Economics, Macro-Econometrics, and 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, for 2006-2009, Head of Department for Economics at London School of Economics and Political Science.

Among his most cited works are his paper on Vector Autoregressions with Olivier Blanchard, his papers 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

• Danny Quah's publications listing page at the London School of Economics

External links

• Danny Quah's Page at the London School of Economics
• Danny Quah's CV at the London School of Economics
• Danny Quah's eprints page at the London School of Economics
• Danny Quah's Google Scholar citations
• Danny Quah's paper listing at IDEAS
• Danny Quah's information at AllMalaysia.info
• Interview The Star Malaysia, January 24, 2009