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| Sir Clive Granger | |
|---|---|
| Name | Clive William John Granger |
| Honorific suffix | FBA FRS |
| Birth date | 4 September 1934 |
| Birth place | Swansea, Wales |
| Death date | 27 April 2009 |
| Death place | San Diego, California, United States |
| Fields | Econometrics, Statistics |
| Workplaces | University of Nottingham, University of California, San Diego, Princeton University, London School of Economics, University of Manchester |
| Alma mater | University of Nottingham |
| Known for | Cointegration, Granger causality, Time series analysis |
| Awards | Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences |
Sir Clive Granger
Sir Clive Granger was a British econometrician noted for pioneering work in time series analysis, including the concept of cointegration and methods for testing causality in observational data. His research influenced empirical studies across Macroeconomics, Finance, Statistics, Meteorology, and Geophysics. Granger held academic posts in the United Kingdom and the United States and shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for contributions to empirical methods.
Born in Swansea in 1934, Granger attended local schools before matriculating at the University of Nottingham, where he studied Mathematics and Statistics and received his first degree. He later joined the London School of Economics for postgraduate work and collaborated with scholars tied to the Cowles Commission tradition and the Royal Statistical Society. During this period he encountered ideas from figures associated with W. Allen Wallis, Trygve Haavelmo, Jan Tinbergen, and Lawrence Klein.
Granger began his academic appointment at the University of Nottingham and later held visiting positions at the University of Manchester, Princeton University, and the University of California, San Diego. He was affiliated with research centers connected to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the International Statistical Institute. His career intersected with scholars at London Business School, the Cowles Foundation, Harvard University, Yale University, and the University of Oxford. Colleagues and collaborators included researchers from Institute for Fiscal Studies, University College London, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Columbia University.
Granger introduced formal methods to analyze nonstationary time series and developed the concept of cointegration, which linked integrated processes in a stable long-run relationship; this work extended themes from Norbert Wiener, Andrey Kolmogorov, George Box, Sir Maurice Kendall, and Herman Wold. He formalized the Granger causality test, influencing empirical strategies used in Macroeconomics, International Finance, Asset Pricing, Portfolio Theory, and Labor Economics. His methods were applied in fields as diverse as Climatology, Seismology, Hydrology, Demography, and Epidemiology. Granger collaborated with and influenced econometricians associated with Robert Engle, James Hamilton, Clifford Hurvich, Søren Johansen, and Wayne Fuller, and his approaches interfaced with techniques from Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Vector Autoregression, Error Correction Models, and Bayesian Statistics. His work engaged debates sparked by theories from John Maynard Keynes, Milton Friedman, Robert Lucas Jr., and Paul Samuelson on empirical macroeconomic modeling.
Granger shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2003 with Robert F. Engle for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility and cointegration; the prize committee cited contributions that influenced empirical work across Central Banking, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, European Central Bank, and national statistical bureaus. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of the British Academy, and received honors from institutions including the Royal Statistical Society, the Econometric Society, the American Statistical Association, and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Universities such as University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, University of Chicago, and Yale University awarded him honorary degrees, and he was knighted by the British Crown.
Granger published influential articles and books that became standard references in applied empirical research. Key works include papers on forecasting and cointegration published in journals associated with the Econometric Society, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, and Review of Economics and Statistics. He coauthored texts and monographs with scholars connected to Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Wiley-Blackwell, and Springer Verlag. His collaborative publications involved coauthors from Columbia University, Stanford University, Princeton University, University of California, Berkeley, and London School of Economics. Granger’s methodologies are taught in courses at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Harvard Kennedy School, London Business School, and INSEAD.
Granger married and had family ties in the United Kingdom while later residing in California; his personal acquaintances included academics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego State University, and fellow econometricians at University of California, Irvine. His legacy persists through an extensive literature citing his work in publications from the Journal of Political Economy, Econometrica, Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Review, and policy implementations by Bank of England, Federal Reserve System, International Monetary Fund, and European Commission. He influenced generations of scholars affiliated with the Econometric Society, Royal Statistical Society, American Economic Association, and research institutes worldwide.
Category:British economists Category:Nobel laureates in Economics