Ethan Kaplan

Ethan Kaplan is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University. He is also an Associate Editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association. His research spans the areas of political economy, applied microeconomics, and empirical macroeconomics.

Professional Positions: Associate Editor, Journal of the European Economic Associaion

IIES
Stockholm University
Stockholm 114 21
Sweden

E-mail: ethan.kaplan at gmail.com
Telephone: 011 46 8 162 527

Resume and Teaching

Recent Papers

• The Persistence of Political Partisanship: Evidence from 9/11 (with Sharun Mukand)
• The Determinants and Effects of Fiscal Spending: Evidence from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (with Arindrajit Dube, Emi Nakamura, and Jon Steinsson) - Coming Soon

Published

• Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information (with Arindrajit Dube and Suresh Naidu), Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming)
• Outsourcing, Wages and Benefits (with Arindrajit Dube), Industrial and Labor Relations Review, (January, 2010)
• The Fox News Effect: Media Bias and Voting (with Stefano Della Vigna), Quarterly Journal of Economics (August, 2007)
• Aggregate Demand Externalities and Labor Supply Decisions: Worker Discouragement and Market Inefficiency (with Arindrajit Dube) Economics Letters (September, 1997)

Revisions Requested

• The Iceberg Theory of Campaign Contributions: Political Threats and Interest Group Behavior (with Marcos Chamon), American Economic Journal: Public Policy

Published Book Chapters

• The Political Impact of Media Bias (with Stefano Della Vigna) in Islam, Roumeen ed., The Effects of Mass Media on Public Policy (2008)
• Did the Malaysian Capital Controls Work? (with Dani Rodrik) in Edwards, Sebastian and Jeffrey Frankel ed., Managing Currency Crises in Emerging Markets (2002)

Other Academic Papers

• Playing Parties Against Eachother in Proportional Representation Systems (with Marcos Chamon)
• Imperfect Common Knowledge and Exchange Rate Determination
• The Labor Boundaries of the Firm: Employment and Independent Contracting (with Arindrajit Dube)

Grants

• Insitute for New Economic Thinking: $225,000: A Spatial Approach to Macroeconomic Inference [October, 2010] (with Arindrajit Dube)

Policy Papers

• Paid Family Leave in California: An Analysis of Costs and Benefits (with Arindrajit Dube)
• Imperfect Common Knowledge and Learning in the Swedish Kronor Market (with Galina Hale)

Popular Press Coverage

• Slate Coverage on 9/11 (Ray Fisman)
• Slate Coverage on Coups (Ray Fisman)
• Washington Post Coverage on Fox News (Richard Morin)
• New York Times Coverage on Fox News (Alan Krueger)
• Project Syndicate Coverage on Capital Controls (Ethan Kaplan and Dani Rodrik)

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