Sir Clive William John Granger (September 4, 1934 – May 27, 2009) was a British economist, and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. In 2003, Granger was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. In bestowing this honor, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences committee recognized that Granger (and co-winner, long-time UC San Diego colleague, Robert F. Engle) had made fundamental discoveries in the analysis of ...
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Sir Clive William John Granger (September 4, 1934 – May 27, 2009) was a British economist, and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. In 2003, Granger was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. In bestowing this honor, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences committee recognized that Granger (and co-winner, long-time UC San Diego colleague, Robert F. Engle) had made fundamental discoveries in the analysis of time series data and that this work was widely known fundamentally to have changed the way economists analyze financial and macroeconomic data.
Clive Granger was born in 1934 in Swansea, Wales, as the son of Edward John Granger and Evelyn Granger. The next year his parents (who were both English) decided to move to Lincoln in England. During the war, Granger moved with his mother to Cambridge, where he went to the local primary school. He started secondary school in Cambridge, but continued in Nottingham, where his family moved after the war....
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