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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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Tag Archives: Brad Delong
Is Macroeconomics Hard? Brad DeLong
Is Macroeconomics Hard? Brad DeLongs Grasping Reality….
Weekend Readings
1. Taxation and Saving – A Retrospective from Alan Auerbach 2. All men are created unequal – the economist on Piketty’s new book 3. Dealing with the Financial Crisis and the Recession from Brad Delong 4. The return of “patrimonial capitalism”: review of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Auerbach, Brad Delong, Branko Milanovic, Capital, Capital Taxation, capitalism, Depressed Economy, Depression Economics, Economist, Financial Crisis, Great Recession, Growth, inequality, Labor Share, patrimonial capitalism, Taxation, Thomas Piketty, Tyler Cowen
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The Long Short Run
From Brad Delong (full article here): The problem now is that the natural interest rate – that is, the liquid safe nominal interest rate on short-term US Treasury securities – is less than zero. Thus, the central bank cannot push … Continue reading
Technological Change through History: the View from 30,000 feet
Brad Delong has a an outstanding post on technological change. He categorizes how people add value and shows how technological change alters these categories. It’s interesting to think about his post and these issues in terms of a simple (classical) model and … Continue reading
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Tagged Brad Delong, Incidence, inequality, larry summers, Productivity, Robots, Technological Change
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Brad Delong on Economists Working on Equitable Growth
From Brad Delong: Take a look at: Emmanuel Saez “Income Inequality in the United States, 1913-1998” with Tomas Piketty, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118(1), 2003, 1-39 (Longer updated version published in A.B. Atkinson and T. Piketty eds., Oxford University Press, 2007) (Tables and … Continue reading
Quantifying Gains from Trade
From Paul Krugman (via Brad Delong): “Eaton-Kortum… yields a simple expression for the welfare gains from trade…. According to Subramanian’s estimates, overall trade in goods and services has risen from about 19 percent of world GDP in the early 1990s … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, Brad Delong, Gains from Trade, Paul Krugman
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Delong on Why Obama should pick Summers to lead the Fed
From Brad Delong: After eight years as chair of the US Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke is stepping down. Fairly soon, President Barack Obama will need to choose a successor – a decision that will be among the most important that he will ever … Continue reading
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Tagged Brad Delong, Christina Romer, Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen, larry summers, Laura Tyson, Monetary Policy
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Delong on How to Portray the Relationship between Debt & Future Growth
Here’s a nice post by Brad Delong on how to portray the debt-and-growth association.
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