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D-Index
35
Citations
8300
World Ranking
2896
National Ranking
1610

Overview

Kevin B. Grier is affiliated with Texas Tech University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within social sciences, economics, and political science, with a focus on the intersection of political institutions and economic outcomes.

The main fields of study for Kevin B. Grier include Social Sciences and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Subfields prominently featured in their research are Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management, and General Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

The primary topics of their work cover Political Conflict and Governance, Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth, Income, Poverty, and Inequality, International Relations and Foreign Policy, Monetary Policy and Economic Impact, Agricultural Risk and Resilience, and Electoral Systems and Political Participation.

Recent publications by Kevin B. Grier include the following papers:

  • The Washington consensus works: Causal effects of reform, 1970-2015 (2020), Journal of Comparative Economics
  • Campaign Contributions and Roll-Call Voting in the U.S. House of Representatives: The Case of the Sugar Industry (2022), American Political Science Review

Additional frequently cited works coauthored with others appearing in the dataset but led by other researchers include:

  • The economic consequences of durable left-populist regimes in Latin America (2020), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • Love on the rocks: The causal effects of separatist governments in Quebec (2021), European Journal of Political Economy
  • Two birds with one stone: Reducing corruption raises national income (2023), Social Science Quarterly

Kevin B. Grier's research has been published in several academic venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • European Journal of Political Economy
  • Social Science Quarterly
  • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • Journal of Comparative Economics

Frequent collaborators of Kevin B. Grier include Robin Grier, Samuel Absher, Vincent Geloso, Gor Mkrtchian, and Jamie Bologna Pavlik. These coauthors contribute across various papers in political science and economics, reflecting interdisciplinary engagement within the fields.

Best Publications

  • An empirical analysis of cross-national economic growth, 1951-1980

    Kevin B. Grier;Gordon Tullock

  • The Determinants of Industry Political Activity, 1978–1986.

    Kevin B. Grier;Michael C. Munger;Brian E. Roberts

  • On inflation and inflation uncertainty in the G7 countries

    Kevin B. Grier;Mark J. Perry

  • The effects of real and nominal uncertainty on inflation and output growth: some garch‐m evidence

    Kevin B. Grier;Mark J. Perry

  • The asymmetric effects of uncertainty on inflation and output growth

    Kevin B. Grier;Ólan T. Henry;Nilss Olekalns;Kalvinder Shields

  • COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS, CONSTITUENT PREFERENCES, AND CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS

    Kevin B. Grier;Michael C. Munger

  • Trust and development

    Jacob Dearmon;Kevin Grier

  • Comparing Interest Group PAC Contributions to House and Senate Incumbents, 1980–1986

    Kevin B. Grier;Michael C. Munger

  • On the Existence of a Political Monetary Cycle

    Kevin B. Grier

  • On the real effects of inflation and inflation uncertainty in Mexico

    Robin Grier;Kevin B. Grier

  • The economic consequences of Hugo Chavez: A synthetic control analysis

    Kevin Grier;Norman Maynard

  • Uncertainty and Export Performance: Evidence from 18 Countries

    Kevin B. Grier;Aaron D. Smallwood

  • Presidential Elections and Federal Reserve Policy: An Empirical Test

    Kevin B. Grier

  • The Impact of Legislator Attributes on Interest-Group Campaign Contributions*

    Kevin B. Grier;Michael C. Munger

  • The Industrial Organization of Corporate Political Participation

    Kevin B. Grier;Michael C. Munger;Brian E. Roberts

  • On the (mis)measurement of legislator ideology and shirking

    Brian L. Goff;Kevin B. Grier

  • Political Regime Change and the Real Interest Rate

    Tony Caporale;Kevin B. Grier

  • The Washington consensus works: Causal effects of reform, 1970-2015

    Kevin B. Grier;Robin M. Grier

  • Inflation, inflation uncertainty, and relative price dispersion: Evidence from bivariate GARCH-M models

    Kevin B. Grier;Mark J. Perry

  • Campaign spending and Senate elections, 1978-84

    Kevin B. Grier

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert D. Tollison
Robert D. Tollison Clemson University
Joseph Francois
Joseph Francois University of Bern
Nick Bostrom
Nick Bostrom University of Oxford
Gordon Tullock
Gordon Tullock George Mason University

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