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Department of Economics |
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University of Victoria |
Fax: (250) 721-6214 |
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Victoria, BC, Canada V8W2Y2 |
E-mail: kumara@uvic.ca |
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Research Interests: Macro and Monetary
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Recent Publications: Articles: 5. “Self-Employment,
Efficiency Wage, and Public Policies’’ , forthcoming Economic Inquiry. 4. “Market Power, Price Adjustment, and Inflation’’
, with Allen Head
and Bev Lapham, February 2010, International Economic Review, 51(1),73-98. 3. “Inflation and the Dispersion
of Real Wages’’, May 2008, International
Economic Review, 49(2), 377-399 (Lead Article). 2. “Capital Tax, Minimum Wage,
and Labor Market Outcomes’’, January 2008, Review of Economic Dynamics, 11(1),
133-154. Among the hottest twenty-five articles published in Review of
Economic Dynamics. 1. “Price Dispersion, Inflation, and Welfare”, with Allen Head, May 2005, International Economic Review, 46(2),
533-572. Among top ten most cited
papers published in International Economic Review during 2005-08. Books: 1.
“Monetary, Fiscal,
and Labor Market Policies in Frictional Economies’’ , April 2010, Lambert Academic
Publishing, Saarbrucken, Germany, ISBN 978-3-8383-4828-5. 2.
“Governance, Social and
Physical Infrastructure, and Development’’ , Editors: Alok
Kumar & Adam Scott, September 2011, Lambert Academic Publishing,
Saarbrucken, Germany, ISBN 978-3-8454-7658-2. . “Short Introduction’’ Book Chapters: ``Taxes, Minimum Wage and the
Dispersion of Wages”, in ``Taxation,
Tax Policies, and Income Taxes” Ed. W.J. Berube
and C. N. Pinto, Nova Sciences Publishers, NY, February 2010, ISBN-10: 160741623, pp. 143-169. Papers Under Submission: 1. “Son-Preference, Gender Differentials in Child Labor and
Schooling, and Efficiency’’, August 2011, Revise and resubmit in the Journal of Development
Economics. 2. “Urbanization, Human
Capital and Cross-Country Productivity Differences’’, with Brianne Kober, June 2011. 3.
“Education, Health, and the Dynamics of Cross-Country
Productivity Differences’’, with Wenshu Chen, January 2012. 4. “Inflation, Redistribution, and Real Activities’’, June 2011, Under Submission. Work in Progress: 1. Son-Preference,
Efficiency Wage, and the Gender Differentials in Human Capital Investment Full List of
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