Brent Neiman

Announcements

New Working Paper on Sanctions and the Dollar/Yuan

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!

New Working Paper on Tariffs!

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!

Amicus Brief in V.O.S. Selections, Inc. v. Trump

July 9, 2025 | I joined a number of economists in signing an Amicus Brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on one of the legal cases challenging certain import tariffs.

NYT Op-Ed and CNN on Reciprocal Tariffs

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.

GSDR Workshop

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…

Back to Booth!

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…

On Leave

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…

OSHA ETS Uses Dingel and Neiman (2020) WFH Estimates

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 …”

Piece in the FT's 'FDI Intelligence' Magazine

June 17, 2021 | Antonio Coppola, Matteo Maggiori, Jesse Schreger, and I have a piece in the FT’s ‘FDI Intelligence’ magazine on our work. Check it out here.

Appearing on PIIE’s “Financial Statements”

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.

Updated Draft of CMNS Accepted in QJE

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.

Op-Ed in the FT

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.

Updated Draft of CMNS

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.

Updated Draft of Neiman-Vavra

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.

Apply Now!

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.

Co-Organizing the Stanford Big-Data Initiative in International Macro-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.

New Summary Statistics on International Portfolios

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.

New Paper with Jonathan Dingel

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.

2020 Economics in Central Banking Award

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!