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Steven J. Davis
Researcher at University of Chicago
Publications - 195
Citations - 25876
Steven J. Davis is an academic researcher from University of Chicago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Unemployment & Wage. The author has an hindex of 58, co-authored 187 publications receiving 21097 citations. Previous affiliations of Steven J. Davis include American Enterprise Institute & National Bureau of Economic Research.
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Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty
TL;DR: The authors developed a new index of economic policy uncertainty based on newspaper coverage frequency and found that policy uncertainty spikes near tight presidential elections, Gulf Wars I and II, the 9/11 attacks, the failure of Lehman Brothers, the 2011 debt ceiling dispute and other major battles over fiscal policy.
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Job Creation and Destruction
TL;DR: The most complete plant-level data source currently available, the Longitudinal Research Data constructed by the Census Bureau, is used in this article to study the U.S. manufacturing sector from 1972 to 1988 and develop a statistical portrait of the microeconomic adjustments to the many economic events that affect businesses and workers.
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Gross Job Creation, Gross Job Destruction, and Employment Reallocation
Steven J. Davis,John Haltiwanger +1 more
TL;DR: The authors measured the heterogeneity of establishment-level employment changes in the U.S. manufacturing sector over the 1972 to 1986 period and measured this heterogeneity in terms of the gross creation and destruction of jobs and the rate at which jobs are reallocated across plants.
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Job Creation and Destruction
TL;DR: The most complete plant-level data source currently available, the Longitudinal Research Data constructed by the Census Bureau, is used in this paper to study the U.S. manufacturing sector from 1972 to 1988 and develop a statistical portrait of the microeconomic adjustments to the many economic events that affect businesses and workers.
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Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty
Scott R. Baker,Nicholas Bloom,Nicholas Bloom,Steven J. Davis,Steven J. Davis,Steven J. Davis +5 more
TL;DR: The authors developed a new index of economic policy uncertainty (EPU), built on three components: the frequency of newspaper references to economic policy uncertainties, the number of federal tax code provisions set to expire, and the extent of forecaster disagreement over future inflation and government purchases.