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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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- Top economists on whether we should tax capital income less than labor income
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- 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
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Tag Archives: Monetary Policy
Concentration in Mortgage Lending, Refinancing Activity, and Mortgage Rates
Here’s a recent paper from David Scharfstein and Adi Sunderam on the effects of mortgage market concentration on refinancing effectiveness. Seems like some interesting variation that could be used to trace out the effects of refinancing on consumption in a follow up … Continue reading
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Tagged Adi Sunderam, David Scharfstein, Finance, Housing, Monetary Policy, mortgage market, refinancing
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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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Historical Hysteresis: Adverse Shocks vs Structural Problems
I started posting last week on the Summers & Blanchard paper, which is on hysteresis and the Unemployment problem in Europe starting in the mid 1970s. Many advocated structural explanations for hysteresis, but Summers & Blanchard looked to the Great Depression period … Continue reading
Innocent Bystanders? Monetary Policy and Inequality in the U.S.
Here’s a paper from some of my favorite macroeconomists on the link between inequality and monetary policy. ABSTRACT: We study the effects and historical contribution of monetary policy shocks to consumption and income inequality in the United States since 1980. Contractionary … Continue reading
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Tagged inequality, John Silvia, Lorenz Kueng, Middle Class, Monetary Policy, Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko
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2 Quick Takes on International Stories in the WSJ
1. Global Currency Tensions Rise Abe says Japan must defend “itself against attempts by other governments to devalue their currencies by ensuring the yen weakens as well.” I’m curious to see if the combination of these pressures in the US, … Continue reading
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Tagged Currency, Euro, France, Germany, Hiring Credits, inflation, International, Japan, Monetary Policy
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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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