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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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- 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
- The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation
- Worker Flows Over the Business Cycle: the Role of Firm Quality
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Tag Archives: Deficits
Links: Deficits, Fiscal Policy in a Depressed Economy, Finance, & Moneyball for Judges
Moneyball for Judges by Cass Sunstein Dylan Matthews on Deficits (and Krugman follow up) Fiscal Policy in a Depressed Economy: Further Thoughts from Brad Delong Solow on American Finance (or Mark Thoma’s summary)
Short-term Debt, the Supply of US Treasuries, and Financial Crises
Annette Vissing-Jorgensen and Arvind Krishnamurthy have an interesting new paper that Annette presented at Berkeley yesterday. It’s a nice example of using a simple, tractable model to understand a very important issue – the demand for safe and liquid short-term … Continue reading
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Tagged Annette Vissing-Jorgensen, Arvind Krishnamurthy, debt, Deficits, Economic Policy, Finance, Macroeconomics, US Treasuries
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Crunch Time: Fiscal Crises and the Role of Monetary Policy
A nice chart from a new speech from Jerome Powell. What doesn’t follow is that we need to get the red line up by cutting spending to get the blue line down (based on the logic of Delong Summers and … Continue reading
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Tagged debt, Deficits, Fed, Fiscal Policy, Jerome Powell, Monetary Policy
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