Overview
Danny Quah is an economist (Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore; formerly London School of Economics) known for work on permanent–transitory decompositions of macroeconomic time series, cross-country growth and distribution dynamics, and the economics of the world economy.
Key Contributions / Features
- Long-run-restriction SVAR (Blanchard-Quah 1989): co-developed the bivariate output–unemployment structural VAR identified by long-run neutrality of demand shocks. American Economic Review 79(4): 655–673.
- Permanent and transitory components (Quah 1988, 1992): identification and bounds for permanent/transitory decompositions of aggregate output.
- Growth and distribution dynamics: "twin peaks" and convergence-club analysis of the cross-country income distribution.
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