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Matthew D. Shapiro
Funded Research:
Behavior on Surveys and in the Economy Using HRS (NIA)
Behavior on Surveys and in the Economy: HRS and Beyond (NIA)
Behavior on Surveys and in the Economy: HRS and Beyond - Admin.Supplement-Project 4 (NIA)
Research Affiliate, Population Studies Center.
Lawrence R. Klein Collegiate Professor, Economics.
Research Professor, Survey Research Center.
Professor, Economics.
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
Shapiro, Matthew D., and J. Slemrod. 2009. "Did the 2008 Tax Rebates Stimulate Spending?" American Economic Review, 99(2): 374-379. DOI. Local Access.
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. PMCID: PMC2995549. DOI. Abstract.
House, C.L., and Matthew D. Shapiro. 2008. "Temporary investment tax incentives: Theory with evidence from bonus depreciation." American Economic Review, 98(3): 737-768. DOI. Abstract.
Kimball, Miles, Claudia R. Sahm, and Matthew D. Shapiro. 2008. "Imputing Risk Tolerance from Survey Responses." Journal of the American Statistical Association, 103(483): 1028-1038. PMCID: PMC2856097. DOI. Abstract.
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. Abstract.
Chapters
Sahm, Claudia R., Matthew D. Shapiro, and Joel Slemrod. 2010. "Household Response to the 2008 Tax Rebate: Survey Evidence and Aggregate Implications." In Tax Policy and the Economy. Vol. 24. edited by Jeffery R. Brown. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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.
Other Reports
Sahm, Claudia R., Matthew D. Shapiro, and Joel Slemrod. 2010. "Check in the mail or more in the paycheck: does the effectiveness of fiscal stimulus depend on how it is delivered?" Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research). Abstract.