Dr. Richard Kent
Richard Kent is an Associate Professor of Economics. He currently is the Chair of the Economics Department. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. His main research interests are in the areas of the mortgage and housing markets.
The courses Dr. Kent now teaches on a regular basis are Principles of Macroeconomics and the module The Economics of Financial Engineering in the Advanced Securities and Investments course.
Kent’s present research is in the history of economic thought. He is studying John Maynard Keynes’s transition from the Treatise on Money to the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. His research has been published in the History of Political Economy, History of Economics Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, and the Journal Urban Economics.
Email address
rkent@kent.edu
Contact Information
(330) 672 1084
Office
480 Business Administration
Kent State University
College of Business Administration
PO Box 5190
Kent, OH 44242
Courses
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Principles of Macroeconomics
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Publications: |
“Estimates of Potential Output by Keynes”, History of Political Economy, forthcoming. “A 1929 Application of Multiplier Analysis by Keynes”, History of Political Economy, 39 (Fall 2007), 529-43. “Keynes’s Estimates of the Multiplier for the United States,” History of Political Economy, 37 (Spring 2005), 103-22. "Household Formation by the Young in the United States," Applied Economics, 24 (October 1992), 1129-37. "On the Variability of the Replacement Investment Capital Stock Ratio: Some Evidence from Money," Applied Economics, 21 (August 1989), 1129-35. "Dynamic Credit Rationing in the Home Mortgage Market," American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association Journal, 15 (Winter 1987), 300-20. "Housing Tenure Choice: Evidence from Time Series," Journal of Urban Economics, 15 (March 1984), 195 209. "The Demand for Federal Home Loan Bank Advances by Savings and Loan Associations," Housing Finance Review, 2 (July 1983), 191 208. "The Relationships between Income and Price Elasticities in Studies of Housing Demand, Tenure Choice, and Household Formation," Journal of Urban Economics, 13 (March 1983), 196 204. "Evaluating the Bank Board's Liquidity and Special Advances Programs," Federal Home Loan Bank Board Journal, 14 (August 1981), 13 16. "An Analysis of Countercyclical Policies of the FHLBB," Journal of Finance, 36 (March 1981), 61 79. "Credit Rationing and the Home Mortgage Market," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 12 (August 1980), 488 501.
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Works in |
“A Letter from Keynes to Hicks”. “Keynes’s Collected Writings, a Correction”.
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Conference Participation |
Presented “Estimates of Potential Output by Keynes,” History of Economic Thought Society of Australia meeting, July 2007, refereed. Cleveland State University, Department of Economics Seminar, September 22, 2005, presented “A 1929 Estimate of a Multiplier by Keynes”. Presented “A 1929 Estimate of a Multiplier by Keynes,” European Society for the History of Economic Thought conference, June 2005, refereed. Moderator, two sessions, Fifteenth Annual Asia-Pacific Futures Research Symposium, February 2005. Presented “Keynes’s Estimates of the Multiplier for the United States,” History of Economic Thought Society of Australia meeting, July 2004, refereed. Moderator, two sessions, Fourteenth Annual Asia-Pacific Futures Research Symposium, February 2004. Moderator, two sessions, Thirteenth Annual Asia-Pacific Futures Research Symposium, February 2003. Presented "Housing Tenure Choice: Evidence from Time Series," Western Economic Association meeting, July 1981, refereed.
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DISSERTATION |
Member, D. Anthony Plath, Graduated 1987. Member, Barbara L. Jones, Graduated 1996. Graduate Faculty Representative, Thomas N. Janicki, 1999. Member, Constantin Ogloblin, Graduated 1999. Member, Michael Welker, Graduated 2001. Graduate Faculty Representative, Bassam Abu-Abbas, 2002. Member, Xiaoying Chen, Graduated 2006. Member, Jian Cao, Graduated 2007. Member, Aiwu Zhao, 2005-6, 2006-7.
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