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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
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Tag Archives: Great Recession
Investment Hangover and the Great Recession
From Alp Simsek, Andrei Sheifer, and Matthew Rognile: We present a model of investment hangover motivated by the Great Recession. In our model, overbuilding of residential capital requires a reallocation of productive resources to nonresidential sectors, which is facilitated by … Continue reading
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Tagged Alp Simsek, Andrei Sheifer, Great Recession, Housing, Investment, Matthew Rognile, Recovery
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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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Debt and the Consumption Response to Household Income Shocks
From Scott Baker: This paper exploits a new detailed household dataset with comprehensive financial information on millions of households to investigate the interaction between household balance sheets, income, and consumption during the Great Recession. In particular, I test whether consumption … Continue reading
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Tagged balance sheets, Consumption, debt, Great Recession, Scott Baker
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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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Moving to Opportunity? Migratory Insurance over the Great Recession
From Danny Yagan: Over the Great Recession, the employment rate in some U.S. cities declined by more than twice the aggregate decline. To what extent did the ability to migrate insure workers against these idiosyncratic local shocks? I answer this … Continue reading
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Tagged Danny Yagan, Great Recession, Labor, Local Labor Markets, Migration, mobility, social insurance, Unemployment
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Arrested Development: Theory and Evidence of Supply-Side Speculation in the Housing Market
From Nathanson and Zwick: This paper incorporates speculation into the standard supply-and-demand framework used to analyze housing booms and busts. Speculation reverses the common intuition that elastic housing supply attenuates housing booms. Housing market frictions make land a more attractive … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Nathanson, Eric Zwick, Great Recession, Housing, Housing Bust, Housing Finance, Land, Real Estate, Speculation
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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
Caught in a Revolving Door of Unemployment
From a story by Annie Lowrey in the NYTimes today: “I’ve been turned down from McDonald’s because I was told I was too articulate,” she says. “I got denied a job scrubbing toilets because I didn’t speak Spanish and turned … Continue reading
Unemployment Insurance and Disability Insurance in the Great Recession
From Andreas Mueller, Jesse Rotstein, and Till von Wachter: Disability Insurance (DI) applications are awards are countercyclical. One potential explanation is that unemployed individuals who exhaust their Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits use DI as a form of extended benefits. We exploit … Continue reading
The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: The Safety Net, Living Arrangements, and Poverty in the Great Recession
From Marianne Bitler and Hilary Hoynes: Much attention has been given to the large increase in safety net spending, particularly in Unemployment Insurance and Food Stamps, during the Great Recession. In this paper we examine the relationship between poverty, the social and … Continue reading
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Tagged Great Recession, Hilary Hoynes, Inqequality, Marianne Bitler, Middle Class, Poverty, Safety Net, SNAP, UI
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