Matthew Easton

I am a sixth-year economics PhD student at Columbia University studying urban and spatial economics, and I am interested in understanding where people live and why. My research examines productivity and quality-of-life differences across cities, as well as how people of different incomes and races sort within cities.

I am on the 2024-2025 job market. You can find my CV here.

Papers

Job Market Paper

• Populations in Spatial Equilibrium, with Patrick Farrell.
  [PDF (October 2024)]

Working Papers

• Segregation, Spillovers, and the Locus of Racial Change, with Donald Davis and Stephan Thies. Draft coming soon!
• Interest Spreads and Margins in Collateral Equilibrium with Heterogeneous Beliefs, with Robert Barsky and Avery Bogus. Chicago Fed Working Paper Series, 2022.
  [PDF]

Work in Progress

• Amenities and Population Growth: The Case of the Sun Belt
• A Survey of Unemployment in Metro Areas, with Donald Davis and Tomasz Michalski.

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.
  [PDF]

Teaching

• Economics of New York City, Spring 2022 and 2024
• Economic Development of Japan, Fall 2022 and 2023
• Finance and the Real Economy, Spring 2023
• Financial Crises, Fall 2021
• Financial Economics, Spring and Summer 2021
• Intermediate Macroeconomics, Fall 2020

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