About
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.
Homepage, CV, & Research
Tags
2012 Alan Auerbach Baumol's cost books Brad Delong College Corporate Taxes debt Economic Policy Education Emmanuel Saez Enrico Moretti Finance Fiscal Cliff Fiscal Policy Government Government Spending Great Recession Growth Hamilton Project Healthcare Healthcare Costs Housing inequality Investment Jobs Labor larry summers Laura Tyson Local Labor Markets Middle Class Monetary Policy NYTimes Obama Paul Krugman Productivity Raj Chetty Romney Spending States Stimulus Tax Cuts for Whom Taxes Tax Reform Wages-
Recent Posts
- Top economists on whether we should tax capital income less than labor income
- Corporate Tax Reform: Is broadening the base and lowering the rate always a good idea?
- Apple, Avoidance, and Corporate Tax Incidence
- 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
Twitter Updates
- Top economists on whether we should tax capital income less than labor income wp.me/p2otxR-mh 8 hours ago
- Corporate Tax Reform: Is broadening the base and lowering the rate always a good idea? wp.me/p2otxR-mf 8 hours ago
- Apple, Avoidance, and Corporate Tax Incidence wp.me/p2otxR-mb 16 hours ago
- m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog… 1 day ago
- nytimes.com/2013/05/21/bus… 1 day ago
Archives
Blogroll
- Andrew Samwick
- Austin Goolsbee
- Brad Delong
- Calculated Risk
- Donald Marron
- Economist – Democracy in America
- Economist – Free Exchange
- Economix
- Ezra Klein
- Felix Salmon
- FiveThirtyEight
- Greg Mankiw
- Jared Bernstein
- Keith Hennessey
- Marginal Revolution
- Mark Thoma
- Matthew Yglesias
- Miles Kimball
- Noah Smith
- Paul Krugman
- The Caucus
- The Fix
Tag Archives: Christy Romer
It Takes a Regime Shift: Recent Developments in Japan through the Lens of the Great Depression
A recent paper from Christy Romer (via Greg Mankiw).
Austerity and the Greek Depression
The NY Times has a nice feature that compares the Greek economy from 2007-2012 to that of the US from 1929-1934. Besides the disturbing similarity, the most notable feature of this figure is how different the government spending response has been. … Continue reading
Christy Romer on the Effectiveness of the Recovery Act
The most successful of these studies focus on the variation in Recovery Act spending across states. Some of this variation resulted from differences in the recession’s severity. For example, there was much more spending on unemployment insurance in Michigan than … Continue reading
