Mark Thoma
Mark Thoma | |
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Born | December 15, 1956 |
Academic career | |
Institution | University of Oregon |
Field | Macroeconomics, econometrics |
Alma mater | California State University, Chico (BA) Washington State University (PhD) |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc |
Mark Allen Thoma (born December 15, 1956) is a
Career and research
Thoma obtained his B.A. from California State University, Chico in 1980, and his Ph.D. from Washington State University in 1985.[2] After having been Visiting Professor at the Department of Economics of the University of California, San Diego in 1986–87, he joined the faculty of the Department of Economics of the University of Oregon in 1987, where he was head of the department from 1995 to 2000 and became Full Professor in 2010.
Thoma's research focuses on how money impacts the economy. Some of Thoma's earliest work deals with real economic activity as related to a number of variables. In a 1994 paper, he studies the asymmetry between the
Thoma's more controversial work has dealt with the business cycle under different conditions in partisan politics. He first broached the topic in 1991 with an article called Partisan Effects in Economies with Variable Electoral Terms. He contends that in parliamentary governments—which call elections at their leisure—conservative parties are more likely to experience recessions near the end of their terms, while liberal administrations would be likely to experience periods of increasing growth. In a later article, Thoma expands on already existing academic literature which suggests surprise regime changes occur on a regular schedule, forming the basis of a political business cycle. He applies this logic to open economies in order to find that not only is there empirical support for the idea of a political business cycle, but there may yet be more implications for domestic indicators on a partisan basis.
References
- ^ Paul Krugman (September 26, 2013). "Rage of the Privileged". The New York Times. Retrieved September 28, 2013.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-05-29. Retrieved 2014-02-24.
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External links
- Web page for Mark Thoma at the University of Oregon
- Mark Thoma on Twitter
- Mark Thoma's channel on YouTube
- Columnist page for Mark Thoma at The Fiscal Times
- "Economist's View" weblog
- Mark Thoma's profile at EconoMonitor
- "Mark Thoma". JSTOR.