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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. My current research focus is on the interaction of corporate taxation, firm location decisions, and the location and scale of economic activity. You can follow me on twitter @omzidar.
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- Taxation and the Allocation of Talent
- On Keeping Your Powder Dry: Fiscal Foundations of Financial and Price Stability
- Why Politicians Love Getting on TV: Words Rewarded Just as Much as Results
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- Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Great Britain and the United States since 1850
- Burying Supply-Side Once and for All by Neera Tanden
- Will Housing Save the U.S. Economy? by Amir Sufi
- Betsey Stevenson appointed to CEA
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Tag Archives: debt ceiling
Why Keith Hennessey’s Debt Ceiling Plan Doesn’t Make Sense
Keith Hennessey proposed a debt ceiling plan for republicans, which wisely begins by saying not increasing the debt ceiling makes little sense. However, he goes on to say the following: Congressional Republicans offer Mr. Obama a choice. He can have … Continue reading
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Tagged debt ceiling, Fiscal Policy, Keith Hennessey, Politics, Republicans
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Blogs review: The trillion-dollar platinum coin option to the debt ceiling
Jérémie Cohen-Setton, a friend and classmate at Berkeley, has a nice write up at Bruegel on the platinum coin debate: What’s at stake: What started as an arcane idea on a finance blog a couple of months ago – that the debt ceiling … Continue reading
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Tagged Blogs review, Bruegel, debt ceiling, Jeremie Cohen-Setton, platinum coin
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Debt Ceiling Deja Vu – What Happened Last Time?
This Stevenson & Wolfers op-ed from the last time games were played with not raising the debt ceiling has some informative, unpleasant graphs on consumer confidence and employment growth:
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Tagged Betsey Stevenson, Congress, debt ceiling, Justin Wolfers
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Quick Takes on Robots, Disability Insurance, Debt Ceiling, & Charts to inform Grand Bargains
1. I still don’t understand why Krugman thinks the invention of “doers” will be bad for high skilled workers. Here’s my reasoning. 2. Ed Glaeser “2013 Is the Year to Go to Work, Not Go on Disability” HT Evan Soltas 3. Foreboding Feeling: Fiscal … Continue reading
