Kenneth L. Judd
Paul H. Bauer Senior Fellow
member of the Task Force on Energy Policy

Expertise: Economics of taxation, imperfect competition, mathematical economics

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Kenneth L. Judd is the Paul H. Bauer Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is an expert in the economics of taxation, imperfect competition, and mathematical economics.

His current research focuses on tax policy and antitrust issues, as well as developing computational methods for economic modeling.

He was coeditor of the RAND Journal of Economics (1988–95) and associate editor of the Journal of Public Economics (1988–97) and the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (1997–2001). He is currently a coeditor of the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (2002–) and an associate editor of Computational Economics (1993–).

He has published articles in several academic journals including Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, and Journal of Economic Theory.

His work has also been published in the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Political Economy, RAND Journal, Journal of Finance, Journal of Economic Theory, Brookings Papers of Economic Activity, and American Economic Review.

Judd has contributed chapters to collected volumes including "The Impact of Tax Reform in Modern Dynamic Economies" in Transition Costs of Fundamental Tax Reform (Washington, D.C.: AEI Press, 2001). His book Numerical Methods in Economics was published by MIT Press in 1998.

He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and served as a member of the Economics Panel of the National Science Foundation (1986–88).

Before joining the Hoover Institution as a senior fellow in 1988, Judd was a visiting professor of business economics at the University of Chicago. From 1986 to 1987 he was a national fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Judd was a postdoctoral teaching fellow at the University of Chicago, Department of Economics, 1980–1981. From 1981 to 1983, he was an assistant professor of managerial economics at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, and from 1984 to 1986 he was an associate professor at Kellogg.

He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Wisconsin (1975) with undergraduate degrees in mathematics and computer sciences. Judd received an M.A. from the University of Wisconsin in mathematics in 1977 and an M.A. in economics in 1980. He was awarded a Ph.D. in economics in 1981 from the University of Wisconsin.

More information about Dr. Judd's work is available at http://bucky.stanford.edu/.