Nobel laureate first Canterbury Distinguished Professor
Professor Granger, is Emeritus Professor at he University of California San Diego where he taught for 30 years. He first visited UC’s Department of Economics as an Erskine Fellow in 2000 and has subsequently made annual visits to the Department. He is planning to return again in October 2008.
He was in Christchurch in 2003 when it was announced that he was joint recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences and the photograph was taken that day in front of the Department’s display of previous Nobel Laureates in Economics. A year later he was again visiting the Department when first approached to see if he would accept a knighthood; which was awarded in the 2005 New Year’s Honours.
Professor Les Oxley, who holds the Chair in Econometrics, says Professor Granger is one the world’s leading econometricians: “He is a wonderful visitor, keen and happy to share his incredible insightful mind with student and faculty members, in economics, finance and mathematics and statistics departments alike.”
17 December 2007