Clive Granger

Sir Clive Granger
Granger in 2008
Born(1934-09-04)4 September 1934
Swansea, Wales, U.K.
Died27 May 2009(2009-05-27) (aged 74)
NationalityBritish
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Nottingham
Doctoral advisorHarry Pitt
InfluencesDavid Hendry
Norbert Wiener
John Denis Sargan
Alok Bhargava
Academic work
DisciplineFinancial economics
Econometrics
InstitutionsErasmus University Rotterdam
University of California, San Diego
University of Nottingham
Doctoral studentsMark Watson
Tim Bollerslev
Notable ideasCointegration
Granger causality
Autoregressive fractionally integrated moving average
AwardsNobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2003)
Website

Sir Clive William John Granger (/ˈɡrnər/; 4 September 1934 – 27 May 2009) was a British econometrician known for his contributions to nonlinear time series analysis. He taught in Britain, at the University of Nottingham and in the United States, at the University of California, San Diego. Granger was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2003 in recognition of the contributions that he and his co-winner, Robert F. Engle, had made to the analysis of time series data. This work fundamentally changed the way in which economists analyse financial and macroeconomic data.