Brent Neiman

About

Brent Neiman is the Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Economics at Chicago Booth. He conducts research on international macroeconomics, finance, and trade. He has served as Counselor to the Secretary and Deputy Undersecretary for International Finance at the U.S. Treasury, working on international economic issues including the bilateral relationship with China, the response to Russia’s war in Ukraine, and global financial regulation.

Research topics

• Economics
• Computer Science
• Business
• Finance
• Macroeconomics
• Monetary economics
• Labour economics
• Demographic economics
• Financial economics
• International trade

Selected publications

• How many jobs can be done at home?

  Journal of Public Economics · 2020 · 1978 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
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• How Many Jobs Can be Done at Home?

  2020 · 420 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Evaluating the economic impact of "social distancing" measures taken to arrest the spread of COVID-19 raises a fundamental question about the modern economy: how many jobs can be performed at home?We classify the feasibility of working at home for all occupations and merge this classification with occupational employment counts. We find that 37 percent of jobs in the United States can be performed entirely at home, with significant variation across cities and industries. These jobs typically pay…

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• Tariff Pass-Through at the Border and at the Store: Evidence from US Trade Policy

  American Economic Review Insights · 2021-02-26 · 283 citations

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  We use microdata collected at the border and the store to characterize the price impact of recent US trade policy on importers, exporters, and consumers. At the border, import tariff pass-through is much higher than exchange rate pass-through. Chinese exporters did not lower their dollar prices by much, despite the recent appreciation of the dollar. By contrast, US exporters significantly lowered prices affected by foreign retaliatory tariffs. In US stores, the price impact is more limited, sugg…

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• Exchange Rate Reconnect

  The Review of Economics and Statistics · 2020 · 127 citations

  Abstract It is surprisingly difficult to find economic variables that strongly comove with exchange rates, a phenomenon codified in a large literature as “exchange rate disconnect.” We demonstrate that a variety of common proxies for global risk appetite, which did not comove with exchange rates prior to 2007, have provided significant in-sample explanatory power for currencies since then. Furthermore, during the 2007–2012 period, U.S. purchases of foreign bonds were highly correlated with these…

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• The Rise of Niche Consumption

  American Economic Journal Macroeconomics · 2023-06-30 · 36 citations

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  Over the last 15 years, individual households have concentrated their spending on a few preferred products. However, this is not driven by “superstar” products capturing larger market shares. Instead, households increasingly purchase different products from each other. As a result, aggregate spending concentration has decreased. We develop a model of heterogeneous household demand and use it to conclude that increasing product variety drives these divergent trends. When more products are availab…

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Recent grants

• Policy and Social Implications of Declining Labor Shares

  NSF · $410k · 2014–2020

Frequent coauthors

• Matteo Maggiori

  194 shared

• Jesse Schreger

  Center for Economic and Policy Research

  185 shared

• Andrew Lilley

  71 shared

• Loukas Karabarbounis

  Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

  54 shared

• Andrew Lilley

  52 shared

• Gita Gopinath

  38 shared

• Samuel Kortum

  Yale University

  36 shared

• Jonathan Eaton

  32 shared

Labs

• Brent Neiman LabPI

Education

• Ph.D., Economics

  University of Chicago

  2001

• B.A., Economics

  Harvard University

  1996

Awards & honors

• Sloan Research Fellowship (2014)
• Economics in Central Banking Award
• AQR Insight Award
• Thouron Fellowship

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