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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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- 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
- Does Entrepreneurship Pay? The Michael Bloombergs, the Hot Dog Vendors, and the Returns to Self-Employment
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Tag Archives: Interest Rates
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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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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