Gregory Chow
| Gregory Chow | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 25, 1930 Guangdong, China |
| Residence | U.S. |
| Nationality | Chinese, American |
| Fields | Economics, Econometrics |
| Institutions |
Xiamen University Princeton 1970–present Rutgers 1969 Harvard 1967 Columbia 1965–1971 Thomas J. Watson 1962–1970 MIT 1955–1959 Cornell 1952–1962,1964 |
| Alma mater |
University of Chicago AM 1952, PhD 1955 Cornell University BA 1951 Lingnan University 1947 |
| Doctoral advisor | Arnold Harberger |
| Known for | Econometrics, Dynamical economics, Chinese economy |
Gregory Chi-Chong Chow (simplified Chinese: 邹至庄; traditional Chinese: 鄒至莊; pinyin: Zōu Zhìzhuāng; born December 25, 1930, in Guangdong, China) is a Chinese American economist at Princeton University and Xiamen University. The Chow test, commonly used in econometrics to test for structural breaks, was invented by him. He has also been influential in the economic policy of China, including being an adviser for the Economic Planning and Development Council of the Executive Yuan in Taiwan, and being an adviser for the Chinese State Commission for Restructuring the Economic System on economic reform.
Chow grew up in Guangzhou in Guangdong province in South China, one of seven children in a wealthy family, and in Hong Kong, where the family fled after the 1937 Japanese invasion of China. The family moved to Macao after the 1942 Japanese invasion of Hong Kong, then back to Guangzhou at the end of World War II.
Chow spent one year at Lingnan University in Guangzhou, then finished his undergraduate work at Cornell University. He entered graduate study in economics at the University of Chicago in 1951. He did his 1955 dissertation there on the factors that determine the demand for automobiles, and in extending that work he developed the Chow test for determining the stability of regression coefficients across different data samples.
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