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David Berger CV

Professor of Economics
Economics
CV

Overview


I am an associate professor of economics at Duke. My research interests include Macro/Monetary, Housing, Labor and Finance

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Professor of Economics · 2022 - Present Economics, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Recent Publications


Minimum Wages, Efficiency, and Welfare

Journal Article Econometrica · January 1, 2025 Many argue that minimum wages can prevent efficiency losses from monopsony power. We assess this argument in a general equilibrium model of oligopsonistic labor markets with heterogeneous workers and firms. We decompose welfare gains into an efficiency com ... Full text Cite

Imperfect Risk Sharing and the Business Cycle

Journal Article Quarterly Journal of Economics · August 1, 2023 This article studies the macroeconomic implications of imperfect risk sharing implied by a class of New Keynesian models with heterogeneous agents. The models in this class can be equivalently represented as a representative-agent economy with wedges. Thes ... Full text Cite
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Recent Grants


Collaborative Research: Macroeconomic implications of economic policy in imperfectly competitive labor markets

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2022 - 2025

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Education, Training & Certifications


Yale University · 2012 Ph.D.