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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: Christy Romer
New Evidence on the Impact of Financial Crises in Advanced Countries
New (preliminary) work from Christy and David Romer: This paper revisits the aftermath of financial crises in advanced countries in the decades before the Great Recession. We construct a new series on financial distress in 24 OECD countries for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Christy Romer, David Romer, Financial Crises, Great Recession, Recession, Recovery
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The Dynamic Effects of Personal and Corporate Income Tax Changes in the United States
From Karel Mertens and Morten Ravn: This paper presents evidence on the aggregate effects of changes in federal tax policy in the United States in the post-WWII sample. Exogenous changes in taxes are identified in a vector autoregressive model by proxying latent … Continue reading
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Tagged Christy Romer, Corporate Tax, Corporate Taxation, David Romer, employment, Karel Mertens, Morten Ravn, Personal Taxes, Tax Cuts, Taxes
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Transfer Payments and the Macroeconomy: The Effects of Social Security Benefit Changes
From Christy Romer and David Romer: From the early 1950s to the early 1990s, increases in Social Security benefits in the United States varied widely in size and timing, and were generally not undertaken in response to short-run macroeconomic developments. … Continue reading
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Tagged Christy Romer, David Romer, Government Spending, Macroeconomics, Ricardian Equivalence, social security, Transfers
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It Takes a Regime Shift: Recent Developments in Japan through the Lens of the Great Depression
A recent paper from Christy Romer (via Greg Mankiw).
Austerity and the Greek Depression
The NY Times has a nice feature that compares the Greek economy from 2007-2012 to that of the US from 1929-1934. Besides the disturbing similarity, the most notable feature of this figure is how different the government spending response has been. … Continue reading
Christy Romer on the Effectiveness of the Recovery Act
The most successful of these studies focus on the variation in Recovery Act spending across states. Some of this variation resulted from differences in the recession’s severity. For example, there was much more spending on unemployment insurance in Michigan than … Continue reading
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