Danny Quah 柯成兴
Li Ka Shing Professor of Economics
Ph.D., Economics, Harvard University
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http://www.dannyquah.com/
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469C Bukit Timah Road
#02-03A, Level 2,
Wing A, Oei Tiong Ham Building
Singapore 259772
Profile
Danny Quah is Li Ka Shing Professor of Economics at the School. His research interests include income inequality, economic growth, and international economic relations. Quah’s current long-term research project is on an economic approach to world order, with focus on global power shift and the rise of the east, and models of global power relations.
Quah gave the third LSE-NUS lecture in 2013, TEDx talks in 2016, 2014, and 2012, and the Inaugural LSE Big Questions Lecture in 2011. In 2016 his was named one of the top 100 Economics blogs in the world. Quah’s research has been supported by the Khazanah Research Institute, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the British Academy, the UK’s Economic and Research Council, and the Andrew Mellon Foundation.
Quah was previously Assistant Professor of Economics at MIT, and then Professor of Economics and International Development, and Director of the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre at LSE. He served as LSE’s Head of Department for Economics, and Council Member on Malaysia’s National Economic Advisory Council.
Quah studied at Princeton, Minnesota, and Harvard.
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Research Areas
- Applied Timeseries Econometrics
- Economic Growth and Development
- International Economics
- World Order; Models of Global Power Relations
Publications
Selected Publications
- Quah, Danny. 2016. “How America Might Yet Prove LKY Wrong: Why Offshore Balancing is Economically Sensible But Can Do Even Better.” Global Policy (August)
- Quah, Danny. 2016. “An Economic Perspective on the International System: Demand, Supply, and a Rational World Order“, Global Policy (May)
- Quah, Danny. 2016. “China’s Economy is Not Collapsing“, Fair Observer (22 Jan)
- Quah, Danny. 2015. “How China’s Rise Is Revealing the Cracks in US Claims to Legitimacy as Global Leader.” South China Morning Post (19 August).
- Quah, Danny. 2015. “The Simple Arithmetic of China’s Growth Slowdown.” Brookings Future Development, February. Washington DC. (18 February)
- Quah, Danny. 2014. “Look to Asia For the Rebirth of Democracy.” World Economic Forum(August 18).
- Quah, Danny. 2013. “Is China’s Economy Crashing?” BOAO Review (October): 18–21 (in Chinese and English) 近在咫尺的中等收入陷阱: 中国经济会崩盘吗?
- Quah, Danny. 2011. “The Global Economy’s Shifting Centre of Gravity.” Global Policy 2 (1) (January): 3–9. doi:10.1111/j.1758-5899.2010.00066.x
- With Mansell, Robin, Christine Avgerou, Roger Silverstone, eds. 2007. The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Quah, Danny. 2003. “One Third of the World’s Growth and Inequality.” In Growth and Inequality: Issues and Policy Implications, edited by Theo Eicher and Stephen J. Turnovsky, 27–58. Cambridge: MIT Press.
- Quah, Danny. 2002. “Matching Demand and Supply in a Weightless Economy: Market-Driven Creativity With and Without Intellectual Property Rights.” De Economist 150 (4): 381–403.
- With Durlauf, Steven. 1999. “The New Empirics of Economic Growth.” In Handbook of Macroeconomics, edited by John B. Taylor and Michael Woodford, 231–304. Amsterdam: North Holland Elsevier Science.
- Quah, Danny. 1996. “Twin Peaks: Growth and Convergence in Models of Distribution Dynamics.” Economic Journal 106 (437) (July): 1045–1055.
- Quah, Danny. 1993. “Galton’s Fallacy and Tests of the Convergence Hypothesis.” Scandinavian Journal of Economics 95 (4) (December): 427–443
- Quah, Danny. 1992. “The Relative Importance of Permanent and Transitory Components: Identification and Some Theoretical Bounds.” Econometrica 60 (1): 107–18.
- With Blanchard, Olivier Jean. 1989. “The Dynamic Effects of Aggregate Demand and Supply Disturbances.” American Economic Review 79 (4) (September): 655–673
- With Ito, Takatoshi. 1989. “Hypothesis Testing with Restricted Spectral Density Matrices, with an Application to Uncovered Interest Parity.” International Economic Review 30 (1): 203–15.
Courses
- Danny Quah's NUS Teaching Page
- PP5182 - Redesigning Models of Global Power Relations
- PP5183 - International Economic Development
- Public Management Seminar