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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

Double Dip or Not, the Unemployed Need Help

Aug 18, 2011| 1

One reason that I don’t like the framing of the “are we headed for a second dip” question is that it leads to a sigh of relief when we are... Read »

White House Debates Giving Up on Helping the Economy

Aug 14, 2011| 

The administration hasn’t figured out that it’s supposed to lead — that sometimes it’s supposed to move public opinion instead of following... Read »

The S&P Downgrade is Unwarranted

Aug 8, 2011| 

Via email, this is from David H. Levey. He was the Managing Director, Sovereign Ratings, Moody’s Investors Service, from 1985-2004: The recent S&P downgrade... Read »

The S&P Downgrade: Is the Sky Falling?

Aug 6, 2011| 

Paul Krugman on the S&P downgrade: S&P and the USA, by Paul Krugman: OK, so Standard and Poors has gone ahead with the threatened downgrade. It’s a strange... Read »

Sanctioning Extortion

Jul 31, 2011| 

We are about to sanction extortion as a legitimate Congressional negotiating strategy. Anyone think this is the last time we will see this happen? One side put a... Read »

A Balanced Budget Requirement is a Very Bad Idea

Jul 19, 2011| 

I’ve argued on many occasions that one of the big lessons we need to learn from this recession is that state-level balanced budget requirements are highly... Read »

Best Quarter-Century of Economic Performance in American History?

Jul 18, 2011| 1

Richard Green: How does Michael Boskin do math?, by Richard Green: He writes in the Wall Street Journal this morning: The lower marginal tax rates in the 1980s... Read »

Obama Takes Cantor to the Woodshed

Jul 14, 2011| 

When I asked you how the president should respond to the McConnell plan, I said “my inclination would be to take this as a sign the Republicans are on the... Read »

Who Doesn’t Pay Federal Income Taxes

Jun 28, 2011| 

Bruce Bartlett talks about who does and doesn’t pay federal taxes, and notes that “the growth of the non-income-taxpaying population is largely a... Read »

Labor’s Share of Nonfarm Business Income Plummets

Jun 16, 2011| 

This graph of labor’s falling share of income explains a lot about the growing political discord in the middle and lower classes: I’ve talked a lot... Read »

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