People

CFE Faculty

Robert J. Barbera
Director, CFE
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
410.516.0557
rjb46@jhu.edu
Wyman 594

Greg Duffee
Carl Christ Professor
Ph.D., Harvard
410.516.8828
duffee@jhu.edu
Wyman 552

Louis J. Maccini
Advisor, CFE
Professor emeritus
Ph.D., Northwestern

Affiliated Faculty

Laurence M. Ball
Econ. Dept. Chair
Professor
Ph.D., MIT
410.516.7605
lball@jhu.edu
Wyman 566

Olivier Jeanne
Professor
Ph.D., École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
410.516.7604
ojeanne@jhu.edu
Wyman 582

Edi Karni
Scott and Barbara Black Professor
Ph.D., U. of Chicago
410.516.7608
karni@jhu.edu
Wyman 562

Jonathan Wright
Professor
Ph.D, Harvard
410.516.5728
wrightj@jhu.edu
Wyman 584

CFE Fellows

Kevin Heerdt
CFE fellow
B.A., USC
kheerdt1@jhu.edu
Wyman 533

Floyd Norris
CFE fellow, and former chief NYT financial correspondent
MBA, Columbia

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CFE Analysis

Will Older Workers Stay Home?

Floyd Norris

07/02/2020

Many older Americans reacted to the financial crisis of 2008 by deciding not to retire. Some who had retired went back to work if they could do so. And that trend continued for the next decade. Now the question is whether that trend is over – another victim of the pandemic. The proportion of people […]

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Inside Baseball

Jonathan Wright

07/02/2020

Seasonal adjustment is one of the more obscure potential casualties of the pandemic recession. A well known problem with seasonal adjustment is that an outlier observation will lead the seasonal adjustment process to shift its belief about what is normal for that month. In cases like the coronavirus recession, this is undesirable because the unusual […]

CFE Analysis

A Lost Four Years, But Better Than Hoover

Floyd Norris

06/25/2020

The United States may be on the verge of an unfortunate accomplishment rarely reached in the last century: a presidential four-year term in which real per capita GDP was lower when the term ended than when it began. The International Monetary Fund estimated this week that the real gross domestic product (GDP) of the United […]

CFE Analysis

A Tale of Two Sectors

Floyd Norris

06/19/2020

The private sector added jobs in May almost everywhere in the United States. The public sector lost jobs, also almost everywhere. Those two trends seem likely to persist in the months to come, as states continue to allow more businesses to reopen – and as state and local governments see tax revenues remain at depressed […]

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NYT > Business > DealBook 3 days ago

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