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Jonathan Heathcote
@Jonheathcote
Economist.
Minneapolis, MN
Joined November 2015
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    A simple new paper in which we explain why corporate valuations relative to earnings have soared since the early 1980s, while valuations relative to corporate cash flow have remained relatively stable. The key is that companies have been able to grow earnings without increasing
    The observed decline in labor’s share of corporate output, in conjunction with relatively weak corporate investment, generates a persistent rise in the ratio of corporate valuation relative to corporate earnings, from Andrew Atkeson, @Jonheathcote, and @fab_perri
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    The US is heavily dependent on immigrant STEM talent.
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    Replying to @achenfinance
    It’s terrible. Has Harvard apologized? Next they must end legacy admissions — equally embarrassing.
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    Vincenzo Quadrini and I organized a special issue of RED to celebrate the 25th anniversary of "Frontiers of Business Cycle Research," a book edited by Tom Cooley in 1995. Please take a look! 1/3 sciencedirect.com/journal/review…
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    Has any economy shrunk by more than Puerto Rico's over the past 20 years?
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    Monetary policy protip: it is Fed, not FED.
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    The benefits of economic growth.
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    95.7% of people who have died from COVID in the US have been over 50. It is wrong to be vaccinating healthy 20, 30 and 40 year-olds when many people in their 50s, 60s, and 70s have yet to be vaccinated. The UK and a few US states (CT) are doing it right. Most US states are not.
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    Super happy four awesome economists are joining the Research Department at the Minneapolis Fed next year: Jennifer La'O @jensqu4r3d, Michael Waugh, Christian Moser, and Kyle Herkenhoff. Also excited Andrew Goodman-Bacon @agoodmanbacon & Illenin Kondo are joining OIGI Institute
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    Replying to @robin_j_brooks
    Your plot obscures the fact that Ecuador has grown slightly faster than Argentina and Brazil (and the US).
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    Replying to @EricTopol and @OurWorldInData
    This is Hong Kong compared to the US.
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    Annoying that the US and other rich countries didn't immediately buy COVID vaccines for the entire developing world population. The vaccines are cheap, and it would have been fantastic foreign policy as well as domestic public health policy. Still not too late to help.
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    Replying to @MaxCRoser
    US looks better by deaths, which are more consistently measured.
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    Glover, Krueger, Rios-Rull and I have a new paper on the optimal economic policy response to COVID-19. We focus on differential implications of shutdowns by age and sector, and study the joint optimal shutdown and redistribution policy. Comments welcome! jonathanheathcote.com/healthwealth.p…