Mark L. J. Wright

Biography

Mark L. J. Wright formerly was on staff on the macroeconomics team in the economic research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

Bank Publications

Chicago Fed Letter

The Burden of Taxation in the United States and Germany

Lorenz J. Jarass, Anthony E. Tokman, Mark L. J. Wright | 2017 | No. 382 Download

Debt Statistics a La Carte: Alternative Recipes for Measuring Government Indebtedness

Daniel A. Dias, Mark L. J. Wright | 2016 | No. 362 Download

How Much Debt Does the U.S. Government Owe?

Rebecca Friedman , Mark L. J. Wright | 2016 | No. 353 Download

Where Has All the Productivity Growth Gone?

Jake Fabina, Mark L. J. Wright | 2013 | No. 306 | January Download

Working Papers

Insurance in Human Capital Models with Limited Enforcement

Tom Krebs, Moritz Kuhn, Mark L. J. Wright | 2016 | No. 2016-08 Download

Bad Investments and Missed Opportunities? Postwar Capital Flows to Asia and Latin America

Lee E. Ohanian, Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria, Mark L. J. Wright | 2015 | No. 2015-08 | November Download

External and Public Debt Crises

Cristina Arellano, Andrew Atkeson, Mark L. J. Wright | 2015 | No. 2015-05 | July Download

Human Capital Risk, Contract Enforcement, and the Macroeconomy

Tom Krebs, Moritz Kuhn, Mark L. J. Wright | 2014 | No. 2014-09 | October Download

Interpreting the Pari Passu Clause in Sovereign Bond Contracts: It's All Hebrew (and Aramaic) to Me

Mark L. J. Wright | 2014 | No. 2014-06 | May Download

The Stock of External Sovereign Debt: Can We Take the Data at ‘Face Value’?

Daniel A. Dias, Christine Richmond, Mark L. J. Wright | 2014 | No. 2014-05 | May Download

Empirical Research on Sovereign Debt and Default

Michael Tomz, Mark L. J. Wright | 2012 | No. 2012-06 | November Download

External Publications

Journal Articles

Human Capital Risk, Contract Enforcement and the Macroeconomy

With Tom Krebs and Moritz Kuhn, 2015, American Economic Review, Vol. 105, No. 11, November, pp. 3223-3272.

The Costs of Financial Crises: Resource Misallocation, Productivity and Welfare in the 2001 Argentine Crisis

With Guido Sandleris, 2013, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, December 30.

Paper

Bad Investments and Missed Opportunities? Postwar Capital Flows to Asia and Latin America

With Lee E. Ohanian and Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria, 2015, NBER Working Paper, No. 21744, November.

Presentations and Other Resources

Videos

Insurance in Human Capital Models with Limited Enforcement, lecture, lecture, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group, January 6, 2016.

NBER Interview with Mark L. J. Wright, April 28, 2015.