CLIVE GRANGERProfessor Clive Granger, who died on 27 May, 2009, was a Welsh-born economist who won a Nobel Memorial Prize in 2003 for his contributions to world economic theory.He was born in Swansea on 4 September, 1934, and grew up in Lincoln, Cambridge and then Nottingham where he eventually enrolled in the University of Nottingham for a joint degree in economics and mathematics.By 23 he had secured his degree and was appointed a junior lecturer there while working towards a Ph.D. in statistics. After completing his doctorate he worked at Princeton for a year with the likes of Oskar Morgenstern and John Tukey, before returning to Nottingham as a full professor.His influential works included monographs on economic time series, establishing a theory that became known as Granger causality. He also wrote influential papers on forecasting and spurious relationship.In 1974 he returned to America to take up a position at the University of California, San Diego, where he worked closely with Robert F Engle who shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with him in 2003. His other honours included fellowships at the Econometric Society and British Academy.In later years his work included forecasting models for the deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest. He retired as a professor emeritus in 2003 and was a visiting eminent scholar at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Canterbury University, New Zealand.He was survived by his wife of 49 years, Patricia, and their two children, Mark William John and Claire Amanda Jane.
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