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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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Tag Archives: Growth
An argument for studying macroeconomics
Rather than answering million or billion dollar questions like microeconomists, macroeconomists try to answer trillion dollar questions. E.G. Why is actual output below potential output & when (or will) it come back to trend? From Yuriy Gorodnichenko (both the idea … Continue reading
Inequality, the Allocation of Opportunity, and U.S. Economic Growth
Chang-Tai Hsieh, Erik Hurst, Peter Klenow, and Chad Jones have a recent paper on the allocation of talent and US economic growth in which they measure the macroeconomic consequences of reduced “occupational frictions” faced by women and blacks in the labor … Continue reading
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Tagged Allocation of Opportunity, Chad Jones, Chang-Tai Hsieh, Education, Erik Hurst, Growth, inequality, Middle Class, Peter J. Klenow
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Why Voters Respond Primarily to the Election-Year Economy
Here’s an interesting paper by Gabriel Lenz and Andrew Healy: ABSTRACT: According to numerous studies, the election-year economy influences presidential election results far more than cumulative growth throughout the term. Here we describe a series of surveys and experiments that point to … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Healy, Behavioral Economics, Gabriel Lenz, Growth, Kyle Dropp, Voting Behavior
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The Pace of the Recovery: Output and Employment Growth Since 1985
Laura Tyson has a piece today on the slow pace of the recovery: Since 2010, annual growth of gross domestic product has averaged about 2.1 percent. This is less than half the average pace of recoveries from previous recessions in … Continue reading
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Tagged Fiscal Cliff, Growth, jobless recovery, Jobs, Laura Tyson, Stimulus
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Large-Scale Asset Purchases by Jeremy Stein
Here’s Greg Ip on Jeremy Stein’s recent LSAP speeches (Oct 11, Nov 30): If Mr Stein’s story is right, we should expect to see corporations exploiting the drop in long-term rates to refinance short-term debt and repurchase stock but not boost … Continue reading
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Tagged Cash, Economist, Finance, Growth, Housing, Interest Rates, Jeremy Stein, Large-Scale Asset Purchases, Monetary Policy, Quantitative Easing
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Tax Cuts for Whom? Heterogeneous Effects of Income Tax Changes on Growth & Employment
Here are slides from my 10/1/2012 presentation at Berkeley. Abstract: This paper investigates how tax changes for different income groups affect macroeconomic activity. Using historical tax return data from NBER’s TAXSIM, I construct a measure of who received (or who paid … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, Fiscal Cliff, Growth, inequality, Jobs, NYTimes, Research, Tax Cuts for Whom, Tax Reform, Taxes
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Which tax cuts stimulate the economy?
David Cay Johnston of Reuters covered my research today: Tax cuts are the key to job creation, or so Mitt Romney, running mate Paul Ryan and the 2012 Republican platform all say. But what does the empirical evidence show? Is the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, David Cay Johnston, Fiscal Cliff, Growth, Jobs, Research, Romney, Tax Cuts for Whom, Taxes
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Job Growth: Obama Recovery much better than Bush in Private Sector
To understand the competing claims about job growth under Obama and Bush, you really need to look at these two graphs (from Paul Krugman) that separate private and public employment. Key Points Private sector job growth is much more impressive … Continue reading
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Tagged Bush, Government, Growth, Jobs, Obama, Paul Krugman, Recovery, Stimulus
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Why Edward Conard of Bain Capital is wrong about Inequality and Capital Income Taxation
Edward Conard, a former Managing Director at Bain Capital, has been creating quite a stir with his new book, Unintended Consequences. I haven’t had a chance to read it yet, but I’ve read this article in the NYTimes about it … Continue reading
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Tagged Bain Capital, capital income taxation, Edward Conard, Growth, Innovation, Tax Reform, Taxes
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