Research Interests for Kent P Kimbrough

Kent Kimbrough joined the Economics faculty in 1980 after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His research interests in the areas of international economics and macroeconomics focus on the role of the inflation tax, the welfare and revenue effects of inflation, the macroeconomic implications of trade policy, and optimal taxation. He teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in international economics and macroeconomics. Professor Kimbrough is a Co-editor of the Southern Economic Journal.

Recent Publications

1. K.P. Kimbrough, Foreign Direct Investment: Analysis of Aggregate Flows by Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka, International Review of Economics and Finance (forthcoming)
2. K.P. Kimbrough, Optimal Taxes and Tariffs with Private Information, Open Economies Review, vol. 19 (forthcoming)
3. K.P. Kimbrough, Revenue Maximizing Inflation, Journal of Monetary Economics, vol. 53 (November, 2006), pp. 1967-1978
4. K.P. Kimbrough, The Decline of the Welfare State: Demography and Globalization by A.Razin and E. Sadka in cooperation with C.W. Nam, Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 44 (March, 2006), pp. 206-208
5. The Mexico-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, edited by Peter M. Garber, Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 33 (June, 1995), pp. 848-9