London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)– UK
Founded in 1895, the LSE is a world-class centre for research across the full range of the social, political and economic sciences. It has an outstanding reputation for academic excellence. In its 2004 world ratings, the Times Higher Education Supplement ranked the LSE as the best University in Europe and second best in the world after Harvard. Similarly, in the latest official Research Assessment Exercise, LSE was ranked second best institution in the country behind Cambridge.Sixteen Nobel Prize winners have been either LSE staff or alumni, and 34 past or present world leaders have studied or taught at LSE. The LSE is an unusual university because it solely focuses on social science studies.Its research and teaching span the full breadth of the social sciences, from economics, politics and law to sociology, anthropology, accounting and finance.
The LSE have been involved in the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th Framework Programmes for years, many times as co-ordinator of the research consortium. The School is highly experienced in participating in multi-disciplinary international research projects.
Main tasks in the project: LSE will coordinate both WP1 and WP9 and is therefore responsible for the construction the dataset at the basis of the two agent-based models as well as of the dissemination of project results. More specifically, LSE will coordinate the activities of all the members involved in WP1, collect and integrate the various data already possessed by other partners. LSEwill also collect new data and operate statistical adjustments and estimations so to make the whole dataset homogeneous and comparable.
Key LSE personnel working on this project
Danny QUAH, Professor of Economics
Professor Danny Quah is a Senior Fellow at LSE IDEAS and Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, as well as Co-Director of the research centre LSE Global Governance. From 2006-2009 he served as Head of the Department of Economics at LSE. Professor Quah holds degrees from Princeton and Harvard, and was Assistant Professor Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining the LSE. Professor Quah has consulted for among others the World Bank, the Bank of England, and the Monetary Authority of Singapore. He currently serves on Malaysia's National Economic Advisory Council and is a Member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Economic Imbalances. Professor Quah will bring to the CRISIS project deep experience in econometrics and macroeconomics.
Eric BEINHOCKER, External Collaborator
Eric Beinhocker is currently a Senior Fellow at the McKinsey Global Research Institute, the economics research arm of McKinsey & Company, and prior to that he was a partner at McKinsey. In his various roles over 18 years at McKinsey he has advised clients in the private, public, and social sectors, including CEOs as well as cabinet ministers and other senior policymakers. He is a leading thinker on the application of complex systems theory to economics, and in 2006 published The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics which was positively reviewed in both academic journals (e.g. Journal of Economic Literature) and popular publications (e.g. Financial Times, Wired). Beinhocker's work has also been published in the Financial Times, Newsweek, Harvard Business Review, and the Guardian. He is also a regular speaker at major conferences on economics and policy. Beinhocker holds an A.B. in economics from Dartmouth College and an S.M. in Management Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was the Henry Ford II Scholar. He has also held academic research appointments at Harvard Business School, MIT, and been a visiting scholar at the Santa Fe Institute.