Profile
Kevin Tsui received his PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago. He is an Associated Professor in the John E. Walker Department of Economics at Clemson University. His research interests are International Political Economy, Public Economics, and Natural Resource and Environmental Economics. Tsui's research on the 'resource curse' investigates the economic and political consequences of oil abundance. Tsui's publications appear in American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Economic Journal, Economic Theory, Economics and Politics, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Public Economics, and Scandinavian Journal of Economics. He was invited to give a talk in the Petroleum: Prospects & Politics conference held in the University of Chicago. He was also a visiting fellow of the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research. Recently, Tsui has awarded the Lone Mountain Fellowship from the Property and Environmental Research Center for his research on the resource curse, and the Krutilla Fellowship from the Resource for the Future for his research on the economics of climate change, focusing on human adaptation to changes in climate.
