Kenneth Lewis Judd (born March 24, 1953) is a computational economist at

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, where he is the Paul H. Bauer Senior Fellow at the

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. He received his PhD in economics from the

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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 The ''Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control ''(JEDC) is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted to computational economics, dynamic economic models, and macroeconomics. It is edited at the University of Amsterdam and published by Elsevier ...

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

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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
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* Kenneth L. Judd (1997). "Computational Economics and Economic Theory: Substitutes or Complements?" ''Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control'', 21(6), pp. 907–942
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* (1998). ''Numerical Methods in Economics'', MIT Press.
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* (2006). "Computationally Intensive Analyses in Economics," ''Handbook of Computational Economics'', v. 2, ch. 17, pp
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93. . * Leigh Tesfatsion and Kenneth L. Judd, ed., 2006. ''Handbook of Computational Economics'', v. 2, Elsevier
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