Matthew D. Shapiro
Funded Research:
Behavior on Surveys and in the Economy Using HRS (NIA)
Internet Interviewing and the HRS (NIA)
New Growth Theory (Reynolds Foundation)
Lawrence R. Klein Collegiate Professor, Economics, University of Michigan.
Research Professor, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan.
Professor, Economics, University of Michigan.
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Shapiro's research interests include investment and capital utilization, business-cycle fluctuations, consumption and saving, financial markets, fiscal policy, monetary policy, time-series econometrics, and survey research. He has studied the effects of recent changes in tax policy on investment, employment, and output; the saving, retirement, and portfolio choices of households; ways to improve the quality of national economic statistics; and the use of surveys to address questions in macroeconomics.
Recent Publications
Books
Shapiro, Matthew D. 2003. Scanner Data and Price Indexes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Abstract.
Journal Articles
Kimball, Miles, Claudia R. Sahm, and Matthew D. Shapiro. 2009. "Risk Preferences in the PSID: Individual Imputations and Family Covariation." American Economic Review, 99(2): 363-368. DOI:10.1257/aer.99.2.363. Licensed Access.
Kimball, Miles, Claudia Sahm, and Matthew D. Shapiro. 2008. "Imputing Risk Tolerance from Survey Responses." Journal of the American Statistical Association, 103(483): 1028-1038. DOI:10.1198/016214508000000139. Licensed Access.
House, C.L., and Shapiro, Matthew D. 2008. "Temporary investment tax incentives: Theory with evidence from bonus depreciation." American Economic Review, 98(3): 737-768. DOI:10.1257/aer.98.3.737. Licensed Access.
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy , and Matthew D. Shapiro. 2007. "Monetary Policy When Potential Output Is Uncertain: Understanding the Growth Gamble of the 1990s." Journal of Monetary Economics, 54(4): 1132-1162. DOI:10.1016/j.jmoneco.2006.03.004. Licensed Access.
House, C.L., and Shapiro, Matthew D. 2006. "Phased-in tax cuts and economic activity." American Economic Review, 96(5): 1835-1849. DOI:10.1257/aer.96.5.1835. Licensed Access.
Shapiro, Matthew D. 2005. "Comments on 'Index number theory using differences rather than ratios'." American Journal of Economics and Sociology , 64(1): 361-366. DOI:10.1111/j.1536-7150.2005.00366.x. Licensed Access.
Chapters
Shapiro, Matthew D., Michael Geske, and Valerie Ramey. 2007. "Why Do Computers Depreciate?" In Hard-to-Measure Goods and Services: Essays in Memory of Zvi Griliches edited by Ernst R. Berndt and Charles M. Hulten. :121-152. University of Chicago Press.
PSC Reports
House, Christopher L., and Matthew D. Shapiro. 2006. "Temporary investment tax incentives." PSC Research Report No. . April 2006. Abstract.
PSC blog
Recent resources, events, news
New Publications
Bingenheimer & Geronimus, "Behavior & HIV"
Wildeman, "Imprisonment & Infant Mortality," PSC Research Report
Next Brown Bag
Tues, Dec 1
Arland Thornton & Barb Koremenos
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