London School of Economics_SU | Alternative Investments Conference

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Prof. Danny Quah is Head of Department and Professor of Economics at The London School of Economics and Political Science

Quah obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard University and his A.B. from Princeton University. He joined LSE in 1991 after having taught as an assistant professor in MIT’s Economics Department.

In the UK, he has served on the Academic Panels of H.M. Treasury and the Office for National Statistics. Quah is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London and a Governor of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.

From 1996 through 1998, he held a British Academy Research Award to study ``Growth and distribution in dematerialized, knowledge-based economies’’, and from 1998 through 2000, an ESRC award for ``Trade and growth across weightless economies.’’ In July 1998 the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded him a grant for continued study of the weightless economy and the economics of information technology. He continues to work on income distribution dynamics. To do much of his empirical research, Quah has developed his own econometrics shell tsrf, which he makes freely available (under the GNU Public License).

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London School of EconomicsSU | Alternative Investments Conference

London School of Economics_SU | Alternative Investments Conference