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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
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- 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: Globalization
What economic problem keeps Larry Summers up at night?
What about the economy now keeps you in cold sweats at night? I worry for the medium and long term about where the jobs are going to come from for those with fewer skills. One in five men between 25 … Continue reading
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Tagged david autor, Globalization, inequality, Jobs, Labor, larry summers, Middle Class, NYTimes, Technological Change
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Falling Interest Rates
The secular decline in rates since the Volker era is quite striking. Besides factors related to the great moderation and the global savings glut, I wonder how much of this trend is due to the USD’s exorbitant privilege in a … Continue reading
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Tagged Globalization, Great Moderation, inflation, Interest Rates, Investment, Markets, Paul Volker, Savings
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