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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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- Financial firms make large share of pass-through income
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Tag Archives: larry summers
Murphy and Summers on US Growth
Video of Kevin Murphy and Lawrence Summers discussed their outlooks of the US economy at the Scholes Forum on February 18.
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Tagged Anil Kashyap, Chicago Economics, Economic Growth, kevin murphy, larry summers
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Summers: We haven’t done it in 15 years and Japan hasn’t done it in a generation
Starts around the 9 min mark. HT: Mark Thoma
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Tagged Economic Growth, Growth, hysteresis, larry summers, secular stagnation
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America risks becoming a Downton Abbey Economy
From Larry Summers: Inequality has emerged as a major issue in the US and beyond. A generation ago it could reasonably have been asserted that the overall growth rate of the economy was the main influence on the growth in … Continue reading
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Tagged Economic Growth, inequality, larry summers, Middle Class, Profits, Taxes
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Fiscal Policy in a Changing World
From Larry Summers: I invite you to consider how the prodigious change associated with information technology that may be qualitatively different from past technological change may have defining implications for our economy going forward. If I have caused you to … Continue reading
Larry Summers on why the economy is broken — and how to fix it
From Ezra Klein: Larry Summers on why the economy is broken — and how to fix it. In addition to the empirical observation that real interest rates over both the short and long term have declined substantially and the calculations suggesting … Continue reading
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Tagged Ezra Klein, Interest Rates, larry summers, secular stagnation
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Secular Stagnation & 3 Strategies for Financially Sustainable Growth
From Larry Summers: The challenge of secular stagnation, then, is not just to achieve reasonable growth but to do so in a financially sustainable way. There are, essentially, three approaches. The first would emphasize what is seen as the economy’s … Continue reading
Economic Possibilities for Our Children: The 2013 Martin Feldstein Lecture
From Larry Summers: This is the 40th anniversary of the summer when I first met Marty Feldstein and went to work for him. I learned from working under Marty’s auspices that empirical economics was a profoundly important thing, that it … Continue reading
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Tagged Baumol's Cost Disease, Future, larry summers, Taxation
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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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