Research Interests for Kevin D. Hoover

Professor Hoover's research interests include macroeconomics, monetary economics, the history of economics, and the philosophy and methodology of empirical economics. His recent work in economics has focused on the application of causal search methodologies for structural vector autoregression, the history of microfoundational programs in macroeconomics, and Roy Harrod's early work on dynamic macroeconomics. In philosophy, he has concentrated on issues related to causality, especially in economics, and on reductionism -- the philosophical counterpart to microfoundations. Recently published papers include: He has conducted studies to investigate the history of twentieth century macroeconomics, the structure of vector auto-regression models, and causality in macroeconomics examined via specification search methodologies. Recent working papers include: “Still Puzzling: Evaluating the Price Puzzle in an Empirically Identified Structural Vector Autoregression,” “Was Harrod Right?” "Identity, Structure, and Causal Representation in Scientific Models."

Keywords:

Causality, Economics, Graph theory, Humans, Models, Econometric, Monetary policy, Motivation, Probability

Recent Publications

1. Hoover, KD; Svorenčík, A, Who Runs the AEA?, Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 61 no. 3 (September, 2023), pp. 1127-1171 [doi] [abs]
2. Hoover, KD, The struggle for the soul of macroeconomics, Journal of Economic Methodology, vol. 30 no. 2 (January, 2023), pp. 80-89 [doi] [abs]
3. Hoover, KD, Models, truth, and analytic inference in economics (August, 2022), pp. 119-144 [doi]
4. Hoover, KD, Erratum to: Hoover, k.d. 2020. the discovery of long-run causal order: A preliminary investigation. econometrics 8: 31, Econometrics, vol. 9 no. 1 (March, 2021) [doi] [abs]
5. Wible, JR; Hoover, KD, The economics of trade liberalization: Charles S. Peirce and the Spanish Treaty of 1884, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, vol. 28 no. 2 (January, 2021), pp. 229-248 [doi] [abs]