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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: April 2014
In Mannheim this week, posting will be light
At 2014 ZEW Public Finance Conference – Public Administration and Economic Performance Manheim, Germany; April 28-29, 2014: Conference website.
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Piketty Roundtable
HT: Paul Krugman
Immigrants and Native Workers: New Analysis Using Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data
From Mette Foged and Giovanni Peri: This paper makes progress on a long standing issue: what is the effect of unskilled immigrants on the labor market outcomes of similarly educated natives? Using the universe of individuals and firms in Denmark for the … Continue reading
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Tagged careers, complexity, employment, Giovanni Peri, Immigration, job transitions, Mette Foged, Wages
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Evidence on the Consequences of Banning Affirmative Action
From Danny Yagan: The consequences of banning affirmative action depend on schools’ ability and willingness to avoid it. This paper uses a seventeen-year sample of law school applications to estimate how completely UC law schools avoided the 1996 UC affirmative … Continue reading
Behavioral Responses to an Annual Wealth Tax: Evidence from Sweden
From David Seim: This paper addresses the behavioral effects of an annual wealth tax. I use Swedish tax records over the period 2000-2006 to estimate bunching at kink points in the pro- gressive tax schedule and find significant estimates of … Continue reading
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Tagged Capital, Capital Taxation, David Seim, Savings, Taxation, Wealth
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Localized and Biased Technologies: Atkinson and Stiglitz’s New View, Induced Innovations, and Directed Technological Change
From Daron Acemoglu: This paper revisits the important ideas proposed by Atkinson and Stiglitz’s seminal 1969 paper on technological change. After linking these ideas to the induced innovation literature of the 1960s and the more recent directed technological change literature, … Continue reading
Congrats to Matt Gentzkow on winning the JBC Medal!
Huge congratulations to Matt Gentzkow for winning the John Bates Clark medal! Here is the AEA’s write up of his work. Matthew Gentzkow has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of the economic forces driving the creation of media products, … Continue reading
Tapping the Brakes: Are Less Active Markets Safer and Better for the Economy?
From Joe Stiglitz and summarized by Felix Salmon:
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Tagged Felix Salmon, Finance, High-Frequency Trading, Joe Stiglitz, Regulation
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The Euro and the Geography of International Debt Flows
From Galina Hale and Maurice Obstfeld: Greater financial integration between core and peripheral EMU members had an effect on both sets of countries. Lower interest rates allowed peripheral countries to run bigger deficits, which inflated their economies by allowing credit booms. … Continue reading
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