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I'm an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Faculty Research Fellow at National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in the Public economics group. You can follow me on twitter @omzidar.
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Monthly Archives: March 2013
Reactions to Mankiw on the Long Run Budget Path
I agree with most of Greg Mankiw’s NYTimes piece on long-term debt to GDP but can’t overlook a glaring omission – he seems to ignore the fact that we are currently experiencing a major economic catastrophe. Here’s how Mankiw concludes: Military … Continue reading
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Tagged Brad Delong, debt, Debt to GDP, Economic Policy, Greg Mankiw, larry summers
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Do Physicians’ Financial Incentives Affect Medical Treatment and Patient Health?
Here’s an interesting paper from Jeffrey Clemens and Joshua Gottlieb. We investigate whether physicians’ financial incentives influence health care supply, technology diffusion, and resulting patient outcomes. In 1997, Medicare consolidated the geographic regions across which it adjusts physician payments, generating … Continue reading
The Effect of U.S. Health Insurance Expansions on Medical Innovation
Here’s an interesting recent paper by Jeff Clemens on the effect of health insurance expansions on medical innovation. Abstract: I study the effect of health insurance expansions on medical innovation. Innovation by practitioners creates important roles for local patient flows and payment … Continue reading
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Tagged Health Costs, Health Insurance, Healthcare Costs, Jeff Clemens, Medicaid, Medicare, patents
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Krugman on UST Debt, Fed Purchases, & Interest Rates
Paul Krugman has a nice post challenging the sometimes accepted wisdom that the fed “gobbling up” massive amounts of UST is the primary reason for low rates. He makes three points: “As Bernanke stressed, long-term interest rates have moved very … Continue reading
On Disability Insurance and Labor Force Participation
There’s some disagreement in the literature on the effects of disability insurance on labor force participation that I thought I’d post about given this recent NPR Unfit for Work feature. Till von Wachter, Jae Song, and Joyce Manchester have a nice paper that uses … Continue reading
Krugman & Bernanke on Capital Flows
Here’s Krugman’s op-ed on capital flows today: But the truth, hard as it may be for ideologues to accept, is that unrestricted movement of capital is looking more and more like a failed experiment. And here is Bernanke on capital … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Bernanke, Capital Flows, Economic Policy, Paul Krugman
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Technical Change and the Relative Demand for Skilled Labor: The United States in Historical Perspective
A new working paper from Larry Katz & Robert Margo This paper examines shifts over time in the relative demand for skilled labor in the United States. Although de-skilling in the conventional sense did occur overall in nineteenth century manufacturing, … Continue reading
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Tagged Hollowing Out, inequality, Larry Katz, Middle Class, Robert Margo, Skill Biased Technical Change, Wages
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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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Reforming Money Market Mutual Funds
Here’s a new proposal from Sam Hanson, David Scharfstein, and Adi Sunderam. We analyze the leading reform proposals to address the structural vulnerabilities of money market mutual funds (MMFs). We take the main goal of MMF reform to be safeguarding financial stability. … Continue reading
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Tagged Adi Sunderam, David Scharfstein, Finance, Financial Reform, Financial Regulation, Money Market Funds, Sam Hanson
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Productivity & International Management Heterogeneity
Here is a chart from John Van Reenen’s recent paper on management as a technology. It shows that the distribution of survey-assessed management quality across firms varies quite a bit across countries. In the US, you see much fewer poorly … Continue reading
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