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Professor Khemraj's primary teaching interests are development economics and econometrics

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Tarron Khemraj

Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D., New School for Social Research
M.A., University of Manchester
B.Soc.Sc., University of Guyana

Professor Khemraj's primary teaching interests are development economics and econometrics.  His secondary teaching interests are money and banking, monetary economics, international finance and economic history.  His current research focuses on the interaction between economic growth and finance.  In particular he examines the implication of oligopolistic financial structures for investment choices, growth and market-based monetary policy in developing countries.  He also worked for over three years in a central banking environment at the Bank of Guyana. 

Recent Courses

Introduction to Econometrics II
Introduction to Macroeconomics

Selected Publications

“Excess liquidity, oligopolistic loan markets and monetary policy in LDCs,” DESA Working Paper No. 64, United Nations (Jan 2008). 

“Excess liquidity and the foreign currency constraint: the case of monetary management in Guyana” (Applied Economics – Accepted/forthcoming).

“Excess liquidity in Guyana: theoretical and policy implications,” ICFAI Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. V, Issue 3 (2007).

“Monetary policy and excess liquidity: the case of Guyana,” Social and Economic Studies, Vol. 56, No. 3 (2007). 

“Fiscal sustainability and foreign dependency: the case of Guyana,” Transition, Issue 35 (2006).

“Analysis of savings behavior in Guyana,” (with Anand Persaud) in A. Birchwood and D. Seerattan (editors), Finance and Real Development in the Caribbean, Caribbean Centre for Monetary Studies, University of the West Indies (2006).

“Okun’s law and jobless growth,” Policy Note No. 3, Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, The New School for Social Research, March 2006 (with Willi Semmler and Jeff Madrick).

Contact Information

New College of Florida
Division of Social Sciences
5800 Bay Shore Road
Sarasota, FL 34243-2197

tkhemraj@ncf.edu
(941) 487-4422

Office Hours

Palmer Building C 220

Thursday 1:00 to 3:00 pm

 
 

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