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Eric Zwick
Associate Professor of Finance and Fama Faculty Fellow, Booth School of Business
Eric Zwick studies the interaction between public policy and corporate behavior, with a focus on fiscal stimulus, taxation and housing policy. His research draws insights from finance and behavioral economics while using a variety of methods: new data, natural experiments, theory and anecdotal exploration. Zwick is particularly interested in the problems that small and medium-sized private firms and new ventures face, from the perspective of owners, investors, managers and workers. A secondary area of interest...
Related Working Papers
- Apr 3, 2023The Health Wedge and Labor Market Inequality
- Dec 2, 2021Business Continuity Insurance in the Next Disaster
- Oct 26, 2021The Rise of Pass-Throughs and the Decline of the Labor Share
- Oct 19, 2021Top Wealth in America: New Estimates and Implications for Taxing the Rich
- Sep 21, 2021Did the Paycheck Protection Program Hit the Target?
- Jan 25, 2021Rethinking How We Score Capital Gains Tax Reform
- Aug 31, 2020Business Incomes at the Top
- Jun 30, 2020Is Attention Produced Rationally?
- Apr 8, 2020Business Continuity Insurance and Loans: Keeping America’s Lights On During The Pandemic
- Jan 1, 2019Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century
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Related Events
- Dec 16, 2020China Biweekly Seminar on Public Economics
- Jun 10, 2020Lunch and Learn Discussion Series: The Economic Policy Response to COVID-19
- Jun 24, 20192019 Economics Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)
- Sep 20, 2019Housing, Household Debt, and the Macroeconomy Conference
- Nov 7, 2017Becker Brown Bag: Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century, featuring Booth’s Eric Zwick
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Related Insights
- Apr 19, 2023The Health Wedge and Labor Market Inequality
- Nov 30, 2021The Rise of Pass-Throughs and the Decline of the Labor Share
- Jun 3, 2021Pay Now or Pay Later
- Feb 5, 2021Rethinking How We Score Capital Gains Tax Reform
- Jul 3, 2020Assessing the Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Outcomes
- Jun 11, 2020Lunch and Learn Discussion Series: The Economic Policy Response to COVID-19
- Jun 1, 2020Key Economic Facts About COVID-19
- May 7, 2020Episode 4: Policy Gambles?
- Apr 28, 2020The Targeting of the Paycheck Protection Program
- Mar 27, 2020Overhead Costs for Private Firms
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- Apr 1, 2021Taxpayers don’t know how many jobs PPP loans saved during the pandemic. No one counted
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- Feb 1, 2021$500 Billion in Aid to Small Businesses: How Much Did It Help?
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- Dec 10, 2020New research finds SBA’s PPP loans only had small benefit on employment
- Nov 21, 2020Prioritizing COVID relief: How to break the stalemate
- Oct 31, 2020One Big-Box Store Or 120 Small Vendors: What’s Better For A Neighborhood?
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- Jul 9, 2020Have PPP loans helped save jobs? New research weighs in
- Jul 6, 2020Where $521 Billion in U.S. Small-Business Aid Went
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- May 26, 2020Tax Credit for Keeping Workers on Payrolls Draws Bipartisan Interest
- May 21, 2020Two proposals to keep the lights on at small businesses
- May 7, 2020Have the top 0.1% of Americans made out like bandits since 2000?
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- May 1, 2020Confidence Lost
- May 1, 2020For Small Businesses With High Rents, Coronavirus Aid Falls Short
- Apr 29, 2020Back to the wealth tax
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