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I'm an Economics Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley focusing on public finance topics at the intersection of labor economics and macroeconomics. You can follow me on twitter @omzidar.
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Recent Posts
- Valuing The Vote: Evidence from the Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Great Questions from Paul Krugman
- Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany
- Local Economic Development, Agglomeration Economies and the Big Push: 100 Years of Evidence from the Tennessee Valley Authority
- It Takes a Regime Shift: Recent Developments in Japan through the Lens of the Great Depression
- The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation
- Worker Flows Over the Business Cycle: the Role of Firm Quality
- Does Entrepreneurship Pay? The Michael Bloombergs, the Hot Dog Vendors, and the Returns to Self-Employment
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- Andrew Samwick
- Austin Goolsbee
- Brad Delong
- Calculated Risk
- Donald Marron
- Economist – Democracy in America
- Economist – Free Exchange
- Economix
- Ezra Klein
- Felix Salmon
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- Greg Mankiw
- Jared Bernstein
- Keith Hennessey
- Marginal Revolution
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Monthly Archives: July 2012
Intrade showing skyrocketing likelihood of a Euro Departure
Any country currently using the Euro to announce intention to drop it before midnight ET 31 Dec 2012.
Surowiecki on PE
James Surowiecki on private equity is worth reading. While I largely agree with him, there is substantial variation in the degree to which private equity firms rely on the zero sum value extraction/financial engineering that he describes to drive returns. … Continue reading
Austan Goolsbee: The Markets Did Not React When ObamaCare Was Declared Constitutional. – WSJ.com
Austan Goolsbee: The Markets Did Not React When ObamaCare Was Declared Constitutional. – WSJ.com.
