Tepper School Professor To Study Labor Market Effects of Stimulus Payments
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, an assistant professor of finance at the at 一本道无码, has received a grant from the听听to investigate the effectiveness of the fiscal response to the COVID-19 recession.
He is among a new cohort of researchers who will be analyzing whether policies worked, including better and more equitable outcomes for working-age individuals in the United States.
鈥淚t is vital to study the impact of policies during times of economic disruptions. This can inform us about their effects as the pandemic unfolded and support decisions in future crises. By measuring the effectiveness of the fiscal response to COVID-19, we will provide evidence using the best data available about what works and what doesn鈥檛 for policymaking,鈥 Denes said.听听
Collaborating with听Spyridon Lagaras听of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign听and听Margarita Tsoutsoura听at Washington University in St. Louis, Denes will study听. The researchers will examine the labor market effects of these stimulus payments, including salaried employment, contract jobs, unemployment and entrepreneurship.
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth鈥檚 goal is to provide policymakers with a better understanding of how specific economic policies affected the U.S. economy and workers amid the worst phases of the pandemic recession. They are particularly interested in labor force participation, wages, job matches and job quality, small business reopenings, and firms鈥 survival and productivity.
Denes鈥 research focuses on empirical corporate finance and its intersection with entrepreneurship, venture capital and political economy.听His work has been published in leading academic journals such as the听Journal of Finance听and the听Review of Financial Studies.听