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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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- Who were the top taxpayers in 1923?
- Trump won in counties that lost jobs to China and Mexico
- The Effect of Pension Income on Elderly Earnings: Evidence from Social Security and Full Population Data
- Why Retire When You Can Work? Hours are way up for elderly workers
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- Financial firms make large share of pass-through income
- Pass-through income and the top 1%
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Tag Archives: Europe
Evolution of European Borders: 1000 Years in less than 3.5 Mins
HT: Marginal Revolution
On Keeping Your Powder Dry: Fiscal Foundations of Financial and Price Stability
From Maury Obstfeld: Banking systems have rapidly grown to a point where for many countries bank assets amount to multiples of GDP. As a consequence, government’s capacity to provide stability-enhancing fiscal guarantees against systemic crises can no longer be taken for … Continue reading
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Tagged Banking, Europe, Finance, Financial Regulation, Fiscal Policy, Maury Obstfeld, Monetary Policy, Regulation
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One thing I learned in Hanover this weekend – UK Housing Subsidies Edition
Sorry for the light posting – I was out of town for a college reunion. It was great to talk to old classmates. One of my friends who lives in London told me about new UK mortgage subsidy programs that … Continue reading
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Tagged Britain, Dylan Matthews, Europe, Fannie and Freddie, GSEs, Housing, Mervyn King, mortgage market, Subsidies, UK
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Larry Summers on “The Fiscal and Economic Effects of Austerity”
From Larry Summers: Thank you for the opportunity to speak before this committee. You have chosen to address issues relating to austerity at an opportune time as both our economic and our budget situations are in considerable flux and as … Continue reading
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Tagged austerity, Euro zone, Europe, Fiscal Policy, Government Spending, larry summers, Stimulus, US
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If Austerity is Working, What Does Failure Look Like?
From Paul Krugman
Historical Hysteresis: Adverse Shocks vs Structural Problems
I started posting last week on the Summers & Blanchard paper, which is on hysteresis and the Unemployment problem in Europe starting in the mid 1970s. Many advocated structural explanations for hysteresis, but Summers & Blanchard looked to the Great Depression period … Continue reading
Hysteresis & the Unemployment Problem
Summers and Blanchard have a paper on Hysteresis in Europe in the 1980s in which they discuss three main potential causes of hysteresis, which is a very high dependence of current employment on past unemployment. The three causes are (1) physical … Continue reading
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Tagged Europe, Great Recession, Jobs, Labor, Labor Markets, larry summers, long term unemployed, Middle Class, Oliver Blanchard, Unions, Wages
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Output Spillovers from Fiscal Policy
From Alan Auerbach and Yuriy Gorodnichenko: It’s tough out there for policymakers seeking to stabilize economies, and shocks from abroad aren’t helping. This column argues that for countries hit by recession, fiscal stimulus in another country might significantly stimulate demand … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Auerbach, Europe, Fiscal Policy, Government, Multipliers, Recession, Yuriy Gorodnichenko
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Bernanke on The Economic Recovery and Economic Policy
He concludes the speech: In sum, the U.S. economy continues to be hampered by the lingering effects of the financial crisis on its productive potential and by a number of headwinds that have hindered the normal cyclical adjustment of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Bernanke, Economic Policy, Europe, Great Recession, Neil Irwin
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