Kent State University Masters of Financial Engineering

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Program Administrator
475 Terrace Drive, Rm 434
PO Box 5190
Kent, OH 44242
Phone............... 330.284.2455
Fax................... 330.672.9806

Richard Kent, PH.D. (ECOOMICS)

Dr. Richard KentDr. Kent is a Professor of Economics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include areas of the mortgage and housing markets. Dr. Kent covers micro and macro analysis and application of news to markets.

Dr. Kent’s recent research has beem in the history of economic thoughts, specifically John Maynard Keynes’s development of his classic book "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money" Dr Kent's research has been published in the History of Political Economy, Journal of Finance, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, and the Journal of 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

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Courses
taught:

Principles of Macroeconomics
Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory and Policy
Money, Credit, and Banking
Business Conditions Analysis and Public Policy
Macroeconomic Theory I
Monetary Theory and Policy

 

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Publications:

“Estimates of Potential Output by Keynes”, History of Political Economy, 40 (Fall 2008), 551-60.

“A 1929 Application of Multiplier Analysis by Keynes”, History of Political Economy, 39 (Fall 2007), 529-43.

“Keynes and Say’s Law,” History of Economics Review, 41 (Winter 2005), 61-76.

“Keynes’s Estimates of the Multiplier for the United States,” History of Political Economy, 37 (Spring 2005), 103-22.

“Keynes’s Lectures at the New School for Social Research,” History of Political Economy, 36 (Spring 2004), 195-206.

“Keynes, Kuznets and Estimates of Investment,” History of Economics Review, 38 (Summer 2003), 23-32.

"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.

"The Demand for the Services of Money," Applied Economics, 17 (October 1985), 817 26.

"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.

"A Disaggregated Model of the Residential Mortgage Market," Southern Economic Journal, 47 (January 1981), 714 727.

"Credit Rationing and the Home Mortgage Market," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 12 (August 1980), 488 501.

 

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Works in
progress:

“A Letter from Keynes to Hicks”.

“Keynes’s Collected Writings, a Correction”.

 

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Conference Participation
and Presentations:

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
COMMITTEES:

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.

 

 


QUOTE

“Dr Kent has an
excellent teaching
methodology; he
is able to explain
complex macro
economic relations
in a very simple
way and that
improves greatly
the learning
process.”

 

Dr. Richard Kent
Kent State MSFE Faculty