Brent Neiman

Announcements

August 19, 2026 | Nellie Liang and I have posted our paper (“Stablecoins After GENIUS: Private Money, Public Debt, and the Global Dollar”), which we prepared for the Aspen Economic Strategy Group.

July 13, 2026 | Gregor Matvos and I have finished a first-draft of a paper (“Financial Sanctions and the Global Payments Network”) showing how sanctions affect access to payments and implications for the dollar and yuan. Feedback is welcomed!

December 18, 2025 | Gita Gopinath and I have finished a first-draft of a paper (“The Incidence of Tariffs: Rates and Reality”) detailing some of the initial effects on the U.S. economy from the recent U.S. import tariffs. Feedback is welcomed!

April 8, 2025 | I shared my views on the announced reciprocal tariffs, and the misleading reference to my joint research, in an Opinion piece in the New York Times and brief appearance with Erin Burnett on CNN.

March 24, 2025 | Today I shared my views (slides here) at a Global Sovereign Debt Roundtable (GSDR) workshop on the use of State-Contingent Debt Instruments (SCDIs) in cross-border borrowing by emerging market sovereigns…

January 21, 2025 | I have returned from my leave of absence serving at the U.S. Treasury as the Deputy Undersecretary for International Finance. I’ll miss my time in Washington, but am excited to be back in Chitown! If you are around campus and we haven’t connected in a while…

March 18, 2023 | Since March 21, 2022, I have been on a leave of absence from the University of Chicago in order to serve at the U.S. Treasury. For the past year, I served as Counselor to the Secretary, but was recently confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve…

November 5, 2021 | The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) of the U.S. Department of Labor uses our estimates in Dingel and Neiman (Journal of Public Economics, 2020) for its Covid-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS). OSHA uses our estimates as “a starting point to determine …”

June 9, 2021 | Nicolas Veron, Joseph Gagnon, and I have a discussion on the China-US financial relationship as part of the Peterson Institute for International Economics’ “Financial Statements” series. You can watch the video here.

April 14, 2021 | My paper “Redrawing the Map of Global Capital Flows: The Role of Cross-Border Financing and Tax Havens” (with Antonio Coppola, Matteo Maggiori, and Jesse Schreger) associates investments in shell companies and corporate affiliates in tax havens with the location of ultimate parent companies to better understand the real economic linkages across countries. It has been accepted for publication at the Quarterly Journal of Economics. Check it out here.

February 8, 2021 | Jonathan Dingel and I have an opinion piece in the Financial Times on working from home after the pandemic. Check it out here.

December 18, 2020 | My paper “Redrawing the Map of Global Capital Flows: The Role of Cross-Border Financing and Tax Havens” (with Antonio Coppola, Matteo Maggiori, and Jesse Schreger) associates investments in shell companies and corporate affiliates in tax havens with the location of ultimate parent companies to better understand the real economic linkages across countries. Check it out here.

October 29, 2020 | Our paper “The Rise of Niche Consumption” documents divergent trends in the concentration of household and aggregate spending and develops a novel and analytically tractable model of heterogeneous households to explain and interpret these trends. Check it out here.

October 15, 2020 | I’m hiring! If interested in working with me and outstanding colleagues next year on international macro, finance, and trade, please click here to learn more about and apply to the full-time position. Would be a great fit for someone interested in getting 2 years of research experience before attending a PhD in Economics or Finance.

August 24, 2020 | I am co-organizing with Matteo Maggiori and Jesse Schreger the Stanford Big-Data Initiative in International Macro-Finance, which is a series of lectures (online this year, and recorded) given by the three of us plus Susan Athey, Nicholas Bloom, Alberto Cavallo, Wenxin Du, Tarek Hassan, Chad Jones, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Pete Klenow, Adrien Verdelhan, and Chenzi Xu.

April 24, 2020 | In support of our papers on international currencies and offshore issuance, we at the Global Capital Allocation Project have posted summary statistics about how developed market investors allocate capital around the world.

March 26, 2020 | In our paper “How Many Jobs Can be Done at Home?”, Jonathan Dingel and I try to answer this question for industries, cities, occupations, and countries around the world.

February 5, 2020 | Together with my co-founders of the Global Capital Allocation Project, Matteo Maggiori and Jesse Schreger, we were announced the winners of the 2020 Economics in Central Banking Award for our work at the Global Capital Allocation Project. We are really excited about the award!