#Distributional

Max Fawcett

maxfawcett

Catching up on @TheHerleBurly episode with Amanda Lang, and it was frustrating to hear Jenni Byrne spouting obvious lies about the carbon tax -- and not have them get pushed

Nils Ohlendorf

nils_ohlendorf

Exited to publish a meta-analysis on distributional impacts of carbon pricing in Environmental and Resource Economics. Joint work with @jan_c_steckel, @JanMinxMCC, @Jakob_MCC from @MCC_Berlin and Carsten Schröder from @DIW_Berlin. #inequal

Jason Furman

jasonfurman

Excellent thread.Stunning magnitudes: spending by unemployed increased about 25% relative to the consumption of the employed.If we had a stable program (not the on-off-on one we had) what would we

Austin Clemens

AustinClemens2

Yesterday, @BEA_news released new estimates of how growth in incomes were distributed btwn 2007 and 2018. This graph shows how total growth (the entire bar in each year) was divvied

Peter Ganong

p_ganong

new, important results from #JPMCInstitute on the evolution of how much people have in their bank accounts this yearbalances remain elevated, but are falling, especially at the bottom of the

Lawrence H. Summers

LHSummers

My criticism of the ideal of universal $2,000 checks as COVID response has lit up the Twitter sphere. I thought it important to clarify my argument, here: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-12-27/larry-summers-trump-pelosi-2-00

Christian Odendahl

COdendahl

So the German ‘#debtbrake’ reform debate is over, 12 hours after it had started with the op-ed of Merkel’s chief of staff, Helge #Braun? Not so fast. /thread #Braun gave

Robert Peston

Peston

This is important. AstraZeneca expects to be able to supply 2m doses of the Oxford/AZ vaccine to the NHS every week by the second half of January. This week the

Hielke Van Doorslaer

HielkeDoorslaer

First @NPEjournal paper out with @MattVermeiren! After GFC, major central banks of the advanced capitalist world have persistently undershot their inflation target. Despite unprecedented monetary expansions. How can we explain

Sylvain Catherine

sc_cath

New working paper with Constantine YannelisWe study “The Distributional Effects of Student Loan Forgiveness”. We find forgiveness to be a highly regressive policy. Full cancellation would distribute $192 bn to

Alexander Stubb

alexstubb

Thread:The @EU_Commission might have screwed up the communication of the #vaccine roll-out in the past week, but important to keep the big picture in mind. Without the Commission in the

Will Beaman

agoingaccount

This is such an important point, which I want to relate to an important intra-left debate about Liberalism and Fascism.Liberalism uses the figure of The Market to naturalize an arbitrary

Ernie Tedeschi

ernietedeschi

#CPSMicrodataDay A few interesting nuggets. Wage growth is difficult to get a handle on right now, since official data uses averages that have been skewed by low wage job losses.

No Fascism!

Kapitithoughts

Why I want more-esp. brownfield-housing (non-exhaustive list of reasons):-So people don't have to spend >30% of their income on housing -To ensure people in abusive/unhealthy relationships can end these more

Susan Dudley

SusanEDudley

New @Whitehouse memorandum: Modernizing Regulatory Review (thread)https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/modernizing-regulatory-review 2. Reaffirms the basic principles set forth in EO 12866 (Clinton) and E

Thomas G. Dietterich

tdietterich

Very thought-provoking talk by Justin Gilmer at the #ICML2020 UDL workshop. Adversarial examples are just a case of out-of-distribution error. There is no particular reason to defend against the nearest

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