Kevin Grier
Gordon Tullock Professor of Political Economy
Kevin Grier is the Gordon Tullock Professor of Political Economy at the Free Market Institute and a professor of political science in the College of Arts & Sciences.
Kevin's research and teaching interests include economic development, quantitative methods in the social sciences, public choice, and political economy of institutions.
Kevin has authored more than 60 articles in peer-reviewed scholarly journals including The Journal of Finance, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Development Economics, and The Journal of Law and Economics.
Kevin teaches an undergraduate course in Public Choice and graduate courses in Political Economy of Institutions and Causal Inference and Quasi-Experimental Methods.
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Education
Washington University in St. Louis
Ph.D., Economics, 1984
Miami University
M.A., 1980
Cedarville College
B.A., 1979
Academic Positions
Texas Tech University
Professor of Political Science, 2017-
Gordon Tullock Professor of Political Economy, Free Market Institute, 2017-
University of Oklahoma
President’s Associates Presidential Professor, 2010-2017
Professor of Economics, 1999-2009
Duke University
Visiting Professor of Political Science, 2005-2006
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) (México)
Professor of Economics, 1997-1999
Tulane University
Professor of Economics & Political Economy, 1994-1997
Faculty, The Murphy Institute of Political Economy, 1994-1997
George Mason University
Associate Professor of Economics, 1991-1994
Research Associate, Center for the Study of Public Choice, 1988-1994
Assistant Professor of Economics, 1984-1990
California Institute of Technology
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics & Political Science, 1987-1988
Other Professional Positions
Social Science Quarterly
Editorial Board Member, 2014-
Southern Economic Journal
Editorial Board Member, 2002-2007
Co-Editor, 1997-2002
Public Choice
Editorial Board Member, 1997-2003
Associate Editor, 1992-1997
Scholarly Journal Publications
2024
Uncertain Times: The Causal Effects of Coups on National Income
American Journal of Political Science (with Robin Grier and Henry Moncrieff)
2023
The Consequences of CIA-Sponsored Regime Change in Latin America
European Journal of Political Economy (with Samuel Absher and Robin Grier)
Anti-sweatshop Activism and the Safety-Employment Tradeoff: Evidence from Bangladesh's
Rana Plaza Disaster
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (with Towhid Mahmood and Benjamin Powell)
Two Birds with One Stone: Reducing Corruption Raises National Income
Social Science Quarterly (with Jamie Bologna Pavlik and Robin Grier)
Campaign Contributions and Roll-Call Voting in the U.S. House of Representatives:
The Case of the Sugar Industry
American Political Science Review (with Robin Grier and Gor Mkrtchian)
2022
The Causal Effects of Rule of Law & Property Rights on Fiscal Capacity
European Journal of Political Economy (with Robin Grier and Andrew Young)
Love on the Rocks: The Causal Effects of Separatist Governments in Quebec
European Journal of Political Economy (with Vincent Geloso)
2021
Democracy, Regime Duration, and Growth
Revista Do Serviço Público (with Michael Munger)
Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Lessons from the Strange Case of New Zealand
Social Science Quarterly (with Michael Munger)
The Washington Consensus Works: Causal Effects of Reform, 1970-2015
Journal of Comparative Economics (with Robin Grier)
Household Responses to Escalating Violence in Mexico
Applied Economics Letters (with Luisa Blanco, Robin Grier, and Daniel Hicks)
2020
The Economic Consequences of Durable Left-populist Regimes in Latin America
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (with Samuel Absher and Robin Grier)
2019
Heterogeneous Endogeneity
Statistical Papers (with Pallab Ghosh and Jaeho Kim)
You Say You Want a (Rose) Revolution? The Effects of Georgia's 2004 Market Reforms
Economics of Transition and Institutional Change (with Robert Lawson and Samuel Absher)
Contact
Email: kevin.grier@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-8968
Offices: Administration 169C
Holden Hall 230
Free Market Institute
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