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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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Tag Archives: macro
Are Sticky Prices Costly? Evidence From The Stock Market
A new paper from Yuriy Gorodnichenco and Michael Weber: ABSTRACT: We propose a simple framework to assess the costs of nominal price adjustment using stock market returns. We document that, after monetary policy announcements, the conditional volatility rises more for … Continue reading
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Tagged Finance, macro, Michael Weber, sticky prices, Yuriy Gorodnichenko
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Understanding Hysteresis
I presented these slides on Blanchard and Summers 1986 yesterday at the Berkeley Macro lunch. If you are interested in Hysteresis, this is one of the seminal papers in the literature. Overview Periods of persistently high unemployment are not uncommon events in … Continue reading
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
