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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: July 2014
Aggregate Demand, Idle Time, and Unemployment
From Pascal Michaillat and Emmanuel Saez: This paper develops a model of unemployment fluctuations. The model keeps the architecture of the Barro and Grossman (1971) general disequilibrium model but replaces the disequilibrium framework on the labor and product markets by a … Continue reading
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Is Macroeconomics Hard? Brad DeLong
Is Macroeconomics Hard? Brad DeLongs Grasping Reality….
How big cities that restrict new housing harm the economy
Here’s an interesting article/interview with Enrico Moretti by Emily Badger.
Optimal Income Transfer Programs: Intensive versus Extensive Labor Supply Responses
From Emmanuel Saez: This paper analyzes optimal income transfers for low incomes. Labor supply responses are modeled along the intensive margin (intensity of work on the job) and along the extensive margin (participation into the labor force). When behavioral responses … Continue reading
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Tagged EITC, Emmanuel Saez, Labor Supply, Peter Diamond, transfer programs
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Is the EITC as Good as an NIT? Conditional Cash Transfers and Tax Incidence
From Jesse Rothstein: The EITC is intended to encourage work. But EITC-induced increases in labor supply may drive wages down. I simulate the economic incidence of the EITC. In each scenario that I consider, a large portion of low-income single … Continue reading
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Tagged EITC, Incidence, inequality, Jesse Rothstein, NIT, Tax, Tax Incidence, Taxation, Taxes
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Sources of Geographic Variation in Health Care: Evidence from Patient Migration
From Amy Finkelstein, Matthew Gentzkow, and Heidi Williams: We study the drivers of geographic variation in US healthcare utilization, using an empirical strategy that exploits migration of Medicare patients to separate the role of demand and supply factors. Our approach allows … Continue reading
The Regional Evolution of Prices and Wages During the Great Recession
From Martin Beraja, Erik Hurst and Juan Ospina: In this paper, we examine the evolution of prices, wages, employment and output across U.S. states during the Great Recession. To do so, we use over 76 billion price observations from the Nielsen … Continue reading
Growth in Cities and Countries
From Chang-Tai Hsieh and Enrico Moretti: A large micro literature has documented the local forces leading to growth and decline of cities. This paper measures the consequences of these local forces on aggregate output and welfare. We use a Rosen-Roback model of … Continue reading
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Tagged Chang-Tai Hsieh, Economic Growth, Enrico Moretti, Growth, Housing, Housing Policy, Local Labor Markets, Misallocation
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Optimal Wealth Taxation: Redistribution and Political Economy
Here are a few interesting links from Ivan Werning on capital taxation, Piketty, and political economy. 1. Optimal Wealth Taxation: Redistribution and Political Economy – slides from his plenary at SED 2014 2. A Reappraisal of Chamley-Judd Zero Capital Taxation … Continue reading
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Tagged Capital, Capital Taxation, Chamley-Judd, Emmanuel Farhi, Ivan Werning, Piketty, Redistribution, Taxes, Wealth
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