Timothy Kehoe

Timothy Jerome "Tim" Kehoe (born June 13, 1953) is a renowned American economist and professor at the University of Minnesota. His area of specialty is macroeconomics and international economics.

He obtained his undergraduate degree from Providence College in 1975 and was awarded his Ph.D. in economics from Yale University in 1979. His Ph.D. supervisor was Herbert Scarf. Professor Kehoe started his teaching career as a lecturer and then an assistant professor at Wesleyan University from 1978 to 1980. From 1980 to 1983, he was an assistant professor and then an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1983 to 1987 he was a university lecturer at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Clare College. Since 1987, he has been a professor at the University of Minnesota. He was awarded his Honorary Doctorate from University of Vigo in 2008.

Kehoe is married to historian Jean O'Brien. His younger brother, Patrick Kehoe, is also a macroeconomic theorist.

References

• http://www.econ.umn.edu/~tkehoe

Timothy J. Kehoe and Edward C. Prescott, editors, Great Depressions of the Twentieth Century, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, 2007.