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Mark Thoma

Affiliation: University of Oregon

Mark Thoma is a member of the Economics Department at the University of Oregon. He joined the UO faculty in 1987 and served as head of the Economics Department for five years. His research examines the effects that changes in monetary policy have on inflation, output, unemployment, interest rates and other macroeconomic variables with a focus on asymmetries in the response of these variables to policy changes, and on changes in the relationship between policy and the economy over time. He has also conducted research in other areas such as the relationship between the political party in power, and macroeconomic outcomes and using macroeconomic tools to predict transportation flows. He received his doctorate from Washington State University.

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Mark Thoma's Latest Articles | 220

Percentage Growth in Annual Wages and Salaries

Dec 14, 2011| 

[Via: On Fairy Tales about Inequality]  Read More →

Republicans Don’t Mind a Payroll Tax Increase

Nov 29, 2011| 

John Kyl doesn’t mind some types of tax increases: Saturday’s Jon Kyl vs. Sunday’s Jon Kyl, by Steve Benen: On Saturday, Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl... Read »

Third Quarter GDP Growth Revised Downward

Nov 22, 2011| 

Our not so robust recovery is weaker than first reported: Real gross domestic product … increased at an annual rate of 2.0 percent in the third quarter of... Read »

Why Hasn’t the Fed Lowered the Rate It Pays on Reserves?

Nov 17, 2011| 

I’ve been wondering why the Fed hasn’t lowered the interest it pays on bank reserves from its current value of .25 percent to zero. It probably wouldn’t... Read »

Prosecutions for Bank Fraud

Nov 16, 2011| 

More here.  Read More →

Turning Our Backs on the Unemployed

Nov 8, 2011| 

Congress, Republicans and two Democrats in particular, have not received anywhere near enough criticism for this: Last week’s Senate decision to kill a modest... Read »

How Long Will It Take for the Labor Market to Recover?

Oct 10, 2011| 

To state the obvious, we need to create a lot more jobs per month than we have so far. If we continue at present rates, the unemployment rate will stay constant... Read »

Obama’s Job Bill Is Dead – Cantor

Oct 4, 2011| 

That the jobs bill is dead is not a surprise, but given the national unemployment crisis we face the lack of will and urgency in Congress to do anything about it... Read »

Recent Stimulus Will Hurt the Fed’s Credibility – Plosser

Sep 29, 2011| 

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia President Charles Plosser voted against Operation Twist — the recent attempt for the Fed to help the economy — because: “The... Read »

The Incentive to Supply Bad Ideas

Sep 6, 2011| 

The CBPP notices what may be a new trend: Yet another state has proposed raising taxes on low-income residents to pay for new corporate tax breaks. Leading lawmakers... Read »

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