Matthew Easton

me2713 at columbia dot edu

I am a fifth-year economics PhD student at Columbia University. My current research interests are urban and spatial economics. I was previously a senior research assistant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

You can find my CV here.

Papers

Federal Reserve Papers

The Global Saving Glut and the Fall in U.S. Real Interest Rates: A 15-Year Retrospective, with Robert Barsky. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Economic Perspectives, 2021-01.
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Working Papers

Segregation, Spillovers, and the Locus of Racial Change, with Donald Davis and Stephan Thies.
Populations in Spatial Equilibrium, with Patrick Farrell. February 2024.
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Interest Spreads and Margins in Collateral Equilibrium with Heterogeneous Beliefs, with Robert Barsky and Avery Bogus. Chicago Fed Working Paper Series, 2022.
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Work in Progress

Why Have Warmer Cities Grown?
A Survey of Unemployment in Metro Areas, with Donald Davis and Tomasz Michalski.