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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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- Valuing The Vote: Evidence from the Voting Rights Act of 1965
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- Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany
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Tag Archives: David Scharfstein
The Future of Housing Finance
I got an email from CBO this morning on this topic and thought I’d revisit the two main options under consideration from the administration’s Housing Finance report that I helped work on a bit more than two years ago. If … Continue reading
Concentration in Mortgage Lending, Refinancing Activity, and Mortgage Rates
Here’s a recent paper from David Scharfstein and Adi Sunderam on the effects of mortgage market concentration on refinancing effectiveness. Seems like some interesting variation that could be used to trace out the effects of refinancing on consumption in a follow up … Continue reading
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Tagged Adi Sunderam, David Scharfstein, Finance, Housing, Monetary Policy, mortgage market, refinancing
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Reforming Money Market Mutual Funds
Here’s a new proposal from Sam Hanson, David Scharfstein, and Adi Sunderam. We analyze the leading reform proposals to address the structural vulnerabilities of money market mutual funds (MMFs). We take the main goal of MMF reform to be safeguarding financial stability. … Continue reading
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Tagged Adi Sunderam, David Scharfstein, Finance, Financial Reform, Financial Regulation, Money Market Funds, Sam Hanson
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The Growth of Modern Finance
From Robin Greenwood and David Scharfstein: Whether the growth of the financial sector has been beneficial to society depends in large part on the social benefits of active asset management, the increase in household credit, and the growth of shadow banking. … Continue reading
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Tagged David Scharfstein, debt, Finance, Housing, Mortgages, Robin Greenwood
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