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I'm an Economics Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley focusing on public finance topics at the intersection of labor economics and macroeconomics. My current research focus is on the interaction of corporate taxation, firm location decisions, and the location and scale of economic activity. You can follow me on twitter @omzidar.
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Recent Posts
- Behavioral Responses to an Annual Wealth Tax: Evidence from Sweden
- Localized and Biased Technologies: Atkinson and Stiglitz’s New View, Induced Innovations, and Directed Technological Change
- Congrats to Matt Gentzkow on winning the JBC Medal!
- Tapping the Brakes: Are Less Active Markets Safer and Better for the Economy?
- The Euro and the Geography of International Debt Flows
- Weekend Links: Understanding Piketty, Falling Interest Rates, Secular Stagnation, etc
- Banks as Patient Fixed Income Investors
- Inputs in the Production of Early-childhood Human Capital: Evidence from Head Start
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- RT @bblockwood: New study on Swedish data: wealth taxes don't distort saving, but do cause misreporting. (h/t @omzidar) http://t.co/jFT4O27… 16 hours ago
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- RT @M_C_Klein: Economists say that Amazon's sales tax exemptions are worth a ton of money: bloombergview.com/articles/2014-… via @BV 1 day ago
- RT @mattyglesias: 47 states have reduced per student spending on public colleges since 2008: vox.com/cards/student-… http://t.co/wdYRpEjVhN 1 day ago
- Localized and Biased Technologies: Atkinson and Stiglitz’s New View, Induced Innovations, and Directed… wp.me/p2otxR-Ak 1 day ago
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Tag Archives: Stimulus
Are State Governments Roadblocks to Federal Stimulus? Evidence from Highway Grants in the 2009 Recovery Act
From Sylvain Leduc and Dan Wilson: We examine how state governments adjusted spending in response to the large temporary increase in federal grants under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). We concentrate our analysis on ARRA highway grants, which … Continue reading
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Tagged ARRA, Dan Wilson, Government Spending, infrastructure, Local Public Finance, Stimulus, Sylvain Leduc
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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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Fiscal Policy and MPC Heterogeneity
Tullio Jappelli and Luigi Pistaferri have a recent paper called Fiscal Policy and MPC Heterogeneity. Here’s an interesting figure from it that shows how MPC varies by cash-on-hand: They aren’t the only ones who document MPC heterogeneity. Dynan, Skinner, Zeldes have a … Continue reading
Tax Cuts for Whom? Do tax changes for high income taxpayers generate more growth than similarly sized tax changes for lower income taxpayers?
This figure, which is from a recently revised and submitted paper of mine, shows how the multiplier varies across the income distribution. It shows that equivalently sized tax changes for lower income groups have larger macroeconomic impacts on … Continue reading
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Tagged Employment Growth, Fiscal Policy, Great Recession, inequality, Jobs, Middle Class, Redistribution, Stimulus, Tax Cuts, Tax Cuts for Whom, Taxes
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The Pace of the Recovery: Output and Employment Growth Since 1985
Laura Tyson has a piece today on the slow pace of the recovery: Since 2010, annual growth of gross domestic product has averaged about 2.1 percent. This is less than half the average pace of recoveries from previous recessions in … Continue reading
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Tagged Fiscal Cliff, Growth, jobless recovery, Jobs, Laura Tyson, Stimulus
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Fiscal Policy and Economic Recovery: The Case of the 1936 Veterans’ Bonus
Josh Hausman, an economics job market candidate from Berkeley, has a guest post on Miles Kimball’s blog that’s worth checking out: An excellent historical analogy to Miles’s Federal Lines of Credit proposal are the 1931 loans to World War I veterans that I … Continue reading
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Tagged Federal Lines of Credit, Fiscal Policy, Great Depression, Josh Hausman, Miles Kimball, Recession, Recovery, Spending, Stimulus
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The Growing Burden of Payroll Taxes
Here’s a column on reforming the payroll tax that I wrote in NYTimes Economix today: Payroll taxes and corporate income taxes accounted for an equal share of federal tax revenue in 1969. By 2009, payroll taxes generated more than six times as much … Continue reading
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Tagged Baumol's cost, Corporate Income Tax, debt, Disability Insurance, Economic Policy, Fiscal Cliff, Healthcare, income taxes, inequality, Jobs, Medicare, Middle Class, NYTimes, Payroll tax, Progressivity, Revenue, skills, social insurance, social security, Stimulus, Tax Cuts for Whom, Tax Reform, Taxes, technology
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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
Job Growth: Obama Recovery much better than Bush in Private Sector
To understand the competing claims about job growth under Obama and Bush, you really need to look at these two graphs (from Paul Krugman) that separate private and public employment. Key Points Private sector job growth is much more impressive … Continue reading
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Tagged Bush, Government, Growth, Jobs, Obama, Paul Krugman, Recovery, Stimulus
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