Eschker, Erickhttp://hdl.handle.net/2148/2442024-03-28T21:29:42Z2024-03-28T21:29:42ZTen Years of Change in the Humboldt County EconomyEschker, ErickJessica, DiGiambattistahttp://hdl.handle.net/2148/1912020-06-25T18:27:12Z2007-05-31T21:31:56ZTen Years of Change in the Humboldt County Economy
Eschker, Erick; Jessica, DiGiambattista
This 10-year retrospective presents data collected since the start of the Humboldt Economic Index in 1994. It discusses real estate, hospitality, retail, energy, employment and manufacturing sectors, as well as other important economic indicators.
PowerPoint Presentation from June, 2004.
2007-05-31T21:31:56ZIs There a Housing Bubble in Humboldt County?Eschker, ErickMessner-Zidell, Sorenhttp://hdl.handle.net/2148/1902014-08-04T15:15:00Z2007-05-31T20:46:29ZIs There a Housing Bubble in Humboldt County?
Eschker, Erick; Messner-Zidell, Soren
This analysis is the first look into the housing market in Humboldt County since the rapid increase in national house prices in the early 2000s. The data we present for Humboldt County 1989-2004 is consistent with housing price movements in other coastal regions of the U.S. where some believe that a “housing bubble” has formed. In the three years from January, 2002 to December, 2004, the median house price appreciated by 72% or $113,750, with the most rapid increase in 2004. More importantly, the P/E ratio never rose or fell by more than one point from 1989-2002. In both 2003 and 2004, however, the P/E ratio climbed by three points, so that it was 23.8 in December 2004 while it averaged 15.4 from 1989-2002.
2007-05-31T20:46:29ZFiscal Redistribution by Age and Generational Inequality in the Twentieth CenturyEschker, Erickhttp://hdl.handle.net/2148/1892013-12-02T21:42:57Z2007-05-31T20:38:30ZFiscal Redistribution by Age and Generational Inequality in the Twentieth Century
Eschker, Erick
This paper is the most comprehensive look at federal, state, and local government fiscal redistribution in the twentieth century. There were four distinct eras of fiscal policy, but the government increased its relative generosity to the elderly so that by the 1970s the elderly received more net transfers than the young. Net transfers received in retirement were by far the largest source of cohort lifetime redistribution. Unless historical rates of growth in aggregate transfers or the age-profile of transfers are maintained, cohorts born 1920-45 will have less lifetime net transfers as a percent of lifetime income than those born 1900-20.
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