VITA
November, 2007
Dr. Kevin Blaine Grier
Office Address: Department of Economics, 325 Hester Hall
729 Elm Av.
405 - 325 - 3748
405 - 325 - 5842 (fax)
angus@ou.edu (Email)
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Address:
Personal: Born May 7, 1958.
Married to Robin M. Grier.
Fluent in Spanish.
Education: B.A.,
M.A.,
Ph.D.,
Academic Experience:
Professor of Economics,
Visiting
Professor of Political Science,
Profesor de la Economía, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas
(CIDE) México D.F. 1997 - 1999
Professor
of Economics & Political Economy,
and Murphy Institute of Political Economy, 1994 - 1997
Associate
Professor of Economics,
Research Associate, Center for Study of Public Choice, 1988 - 1994
Assistant
Professor of Economics,
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics & Political Science,
California Institute of Technology, September 1987 - July 1988
Awards and Honors:
Listed as one of the “Top 1000 Economists”
both by publications and citations over the period 1990 - 2000 in a study
sponsored by the European Economic Association.
See the following web site: http://student.ulb.ac.be/%7Etcoupe/update/top1000p.html
Included
in Who's Who in Economics , (4th Edition, 2003) edited
by Mark Blaug and published by Edward Elgar Press,
which compiles information on
"the 1,200 most frequently cited economists, in the years 1990-2000 using the Social Science Citation Index."
Winner of the Duncan Black prize for best paper, Public Choice, 2008.
Publications In Refereed Journals:
Do High Interest Rates Deter Speculative Attacks? (w/ Shu Lin)., forthcoming, Journal of International Money and Finance.
Elections, Exchange Rates & Reform in Latin America (w/ Rodolfo Cermeño and Robin Grier), forthcoming, Journal of Development Economics.
Speculative attacks and defenses as a war of attrition: Theory and an example (w/ Shu Lin), European Journal of Political Economy, 2009, 25(4): 540-546.
Trust and Development (w/ Jacob Dearmon), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 71: 210-220.
Twin sons of different mothers: the long and short of the twin deficits debate (w/ Haichun Ye), Economic Inquiry, 2009, 47(4): 625-638.
Presidential Elections and Real GDP growth in the USA , Public Choice, 2008, 135, (3), 337-352.
Only Income Diverges: A Neoclassical Anomaly (with Robin Grier), Journal of Development Economics, 2007, 84(1): 25-45.
Uncertainty and Export Performance: Evidence from 18 Countries (with Aaron Smallwood), Journal of Money, Credit, & Banking, 2007, 39(4): 965-979.
External Influences on Economic Reform: Reform as a Regional Public Good (with Daniel Sutter) , European Journal of Political Economy, 2007, 23(3): 660-673.
On the Real Effects of Inflation and Inflation Uncertainty
in
Inflation, Presidents, Fed Chairs and Regime Shifts in the US real interest rate, (with Tony Caporale) Journal of Money, Credit & Banking,December 2005; 37: 1153-1163.
How Smart is my Dummy? Time Series Tests for the Influence of Politics, (with Tony Caporale) Political Analysis, Winter 2005; 13: 77 - 94.
The Asymmetric Effects of Uncertainty on Inflation and Output Growth, (with Olan Henry, Nilss Olekalns, and Kalvinder Shields) Journal of Applied Econometrics. 2004, Volume 19, p.551-565.
The Real Exchange Rate Process and its Real Effects: The cases of
Party, Incumbency and the Effects of Economic Fluctuations on House Elections, 1916-1996, (with Joe McGarrity) Public Choice, January 2002 p. 143 - 162.
Macroeconomic Indicators, Exchange Rate Regimes, Currency Depreciation and Stock Market Performance in the Crisis of 1997 (with Robin Grier), Economic Inquiry, January 2001 p.139-148.
Political Regime Change and the Real Interest Rate, (with Tony Caporale),Journal of Money, Credit & Banking, August 2000 p. 320-334.
Political Cycles in Non-Traditional Settings, Theory and Evidence
for
The Effects of Uncertainty on Macroeconomic Performance: Bivariate GARCH Evidence, (with Mark Perry), Journal of Applied Econometrics, January-February 2000 p. 45-58.
A Political Model of Monetary Policy with Application to the Real Rate of Interest (with Tony Caporale), Journal of Law & Economics. October 1998, p. 409-428.
Inflation and Inflation Uncertainty in the G-7 Countries, (with Mark Perry), Journal of International Money and Finance August 1998, p. 671-689.
Inflación e Incertidumbre Inflacionaria en México, 1960 - 1997.(with Robin Grier) Trimestre Económico Julio - Septiembre 1998, p. 407-426.
The Effect of Macroeconomic Fluctuations on the Electoral Fortunes of House Incumbents, (with Joseph McGarrity), Journal of Law & Economics April 1998, p. 142-161.
El Papel de la Estrategia Cambiaria en el Comportamiento Económico de Países en Desarrollo: Evidencia para 1997.(with Robin Grier) Economía Mexicana, Winter 1998, p. 115-131.
Congressional Influence on
Inflation, Inflation Uncertainty and Relative Price Dispersion: Evidence from Bivariate GARCH-M Models (with Mark Perry), Journal of Monetary Economics,October 1996, p.391-405
Electoral Politics and the Executive Veto (with M. McDonald and R.D. Tollision), Economic Inquiry, July 1995, p.427-440.
The Determinants of Industry Political Activity, 1978-1986, (with M.C. Munger and B.Roberts), American Political Science Review, December 1994, p. 911 - 926.
The Rookie Draft and Competitive Balance: The Case of Professional Football (with R.D. Tollison), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 1994, p. 293-299.
The Effect of Money Shocks on Interest Rates in the Presence of Conditional Heteroskedasticity, (with Mark Perry), Journal of Finance, September 1993 p. 1445-55.
Comparing Interest Group PAC Contributions to House and Senate Incumbents, 1980 - 1986 (with Michael C. Munger), Journal of Politics, August 1993 p. 615-43.
On the (Mis)Measurement of Ideology and Legislator Shirking(with Brian Goff), Public Choice, June 1993 p. 5-20.
Ideology and Representation in American Politics, Public Choice, June 1993 p. 1-4.
Congressional
Influence on
The Industrial Organization of Corporate Political Participation, (with B. Roberts and M. Munger), Southern Economic Journal, January 1991 p. 727 - 738.
Committee Assignments, Constituent Preferences and Campaign Contributions to House Incumbents (with M.C. Munger), Economic Inquiry, January 1991 p. 24 - 43.
Arbitrage in a Basketball Economy, (with R.D. Tollison). Kyklos, 1990 Volume 43, #4 p. 611 - 624.
Allocation
Patterns of PAC Monies: The Case of the
An Empirical Analysis of Cross-National Economic Growth (with G. Tullock), Journal of Monetary Economics, September 1989 p 259-76.
Campaign Spending and Senate Elections, 1978 - 1984, Public Choice December 1989, p. 201-19.
On the Existence of a Political Monetary Cycle, American Journal of Political Science, May 1989 p 376-89.
Presidential
Politics and Federal Reserve
Deficits, Politics and Money Growth (with Howard Neiman), Economic Inquiry, April 1987 p 201-14.
A Note on Unanticipated Money Growth and Interest Rate Surprises: Makin and Mishkin Revisited, Journal of Finance, September, 1986 p 981-85.
Monetary Policy as a Political Equilibrium, Cato Journal, Fall 1986 p 539-544.
The Impact of Legislator Attributes on Interest Group Campaign Contributions (with Michael Munger), Journal of Labor Research, Fall 1986 p 349-61.
The
Determinants of
Contributions to Books:
Conditional Heteroskedasticity
and Cross-Sectional Dependence in Panel Data: An Empirical Study of Inflation
Uncertainty in the G7 countries (with Rodolfo Cermeño) in
Panel Data Econometrics : Theoretical Contributions and Empirical Applications. Badi Baltagi, ed. Elsevier Press, 2006.
The Empirics of Economic Growth. in The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. David Henderson ed. Liberty Fund Press, forthcoming
Money. Chapter 14 of, The Elgar Companion of Public Choice. William Shughart, ed. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2001 p. 310 - 328.
Governments, Unions, and Economic Growth. Chapters
19 - 28 of Governments and Growth. Villy Bergstrom ed.
Papers Currently Under Review:
Does high inflation predict greater inflation uncertainty? Evidence from asymmetric stochastic volatility models (w/ Haichun Ye)
Savings and Investment in the USA: Solving the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle (w/ Shu Lin and Haichun Ye),
Real Appreciation & Exchange Rate Predictability (w/ Rodolfo Cermeno and Robin Grier),
Globalization, Roundaboutness and Relative Wages (w/ J. Francois and D. Nelson).
Co-Editor, Southern Economic Journal. 1997 – 2002
Associate Editor, Public Choice. 1992 -- 1997
Editorial Board, Public Choice. 1997 – 2003
Editorial Board, Southern Economic Journal. 2002 – 2007
Consejo Editorial, El Trimestre Economico 1998 –
Consejo Editorial, Estudios Economicos 2005 --
Dissertation
Committees:
I have been a member of over 30 PhD dissertation committees. A list of the students appears below. A * indicates dissertations where I was heavily involved either as Chair or as a primary advisor.
Wayne Gable
Arthur (Trey) Fleisher*
Richard Grant
Karen Palesek
Michael (Mick) Miller
Fred Oerther*
Jose Cateriano*
Larry McQuillan
Mark Gallagher
David Zorn
Michelle Vachris
Emmanuel Njomo
Tony Caporale*
Michael McDonald*
Laura Thompson*
Mark Perry*
Robert Kourtides
Joseph McGarrity*
Mark Lynner*
Alexander Tabbarok
Barbara McKiernan*
Mark Davis
Guanghi Peng*
Rodrigo Navia*
Fan Zhou
Salaheen Khan*
Rex Pjesky
Jeremy Oller
Shu Lin*
Xiujian Chen*
Haichun Ye*
Luisa Blanco
Jacob Dearmon*
Xuebing Yang
Chi Wai Chang* (in progress)
Norman Maynard* (in progress)
Beatriz Maldonado-Bird (in progress)
Brian Piper* (in progress)