Kenneth Judd Explained

Kenneth Judd
Birth Date:	March 24, 1953
Nationality:	American
Institution:	Stanford University
Field:	Computational economics
Alma Mater:	University of Wisconsin
Doctoral Advisor:	Kenneth Burdett
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Repec Id:	pju19

Kenneth Lewis Judd (born March 24, 1953) is a computational economist at Stanford University, where he is the Paul H. Bauer Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Wisconsin in 1980. He is perhaps best known as the author of Numerical Methods in Economics, and he is also among the editors of the Handbook of Computational Economics and of the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.

He is one of two authors behind the Chamley–Judd result that the optimal tax rate on capital income is zero.^[1]

References

1. Judd . K. L. . 1985 . Redistributive taxation in a simple perfect foresight model . Journal of Public Economics . 28 . 1 . 59–83 . 10.1016/0047-2727(85)90020-9 .

External links

• Kenneth Judd's homepage
  • Kenneth L. Judd (1980) Four Essays in Economic Theory. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Jess Gaspar and Kenneth L. Judd (1997). "Solving Large-Scale Rational-Expectations Models," Macroeconomic Dynamics, 1(1), pp. 45–75, Abstract.
• Kenneth L. Judd (1997). "Computational Economics and Economic Theory: Substitutes or Complements?" Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 21(6), pp. 907–942. Abstract.
• (1998). Numerical Methods in Economics, MIT Press. Description and chapter-preview links.
• (2006). "Computationally Intensive Analyses in Economics," Handbook of Computational Economics, v. 2, ch. 17, pp. 881– 93. .
• Leigh Tesfatsion and Kenneth L. Judd, ed., 2006. Handbook of Computational Economics, v. 2, Elsevier. Description & and chapter-preview links.