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Lee Seltzer

@leeseltzer.bsky.social

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Economist at the New York Fed. Studies climate risk, real estate and corporate finance, UT Austin PhD. Views my own and not the Fed. He/him

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Lee Seltzer @leeseltzer.bsky.social · Nov 14

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Excited to share a new staff report with Jacob Kim-Sherman (who is applying to PhD programs, keep your eyes out admissions committees!)

We study the implications of the tendency for natural disasters to cluster across space and time for economic research #EconSky

Staff Reports

Technical working papers

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Lee Seltzer @leeseltzer.bsky.social · Sep 3

New blog out on clustering in natural disaster damages!

What Is Natural Disaster Clustering—and Why Does It Matter for the Economy? - Liberty Street Economics

A look at the financial and economic impact of natural disaster clustering, or how natural disaster systems interact.

libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org

Lee Seltzer @leeseltzer.bsky.social · Jul 4

Can’t think of anything that’d make 15 year old me prouder than knowing that at 33 I’d be watching the Nathan’s hot dog eating contest from a dunkin

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Lee Seltzer @leeseltzer.bsky.social · Jun 25

This week I:
1) discussed a paper
2) climbed a mountain #WFA

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Lee Seltzer @leeseltzer.bsky.social · Apr 19

Your thirties are all about getting terrible acid reflux while you’re at a trampoline park for a bachelor party

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Lee Seltzer @leeseltzer.bsky.social · Apr 7

Some pictures really are worth 1000 words

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Lee Seltzer @leeseltzer.bsky.social · Mar 21

Looking forward to presenting in the Bank Credit Supply session tomorrow at MFA!

Lee Seltzer @leeseltzer.bsky.social · Mar 19

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/h... an empirically ideal, but also terrifying, natural experiment

RFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It Spread

The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say.

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Lee Seltzer @leeseltzer.bsky.social · Mar 9

The hora is the purest form of moshing

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · Feb 22

Several good things are happening according r/fednews so I am going to drop them here. If federal workers are fighting back, how much more us?

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Lee Seltzer @leeseltzer.bsky.social · Feb 19

1) What’s happening to federal employees is a travesty
2) Hey I know him that’s my friend on MSNBC!!!

Federal Workers United @fedworkersunited.bsky.social · Feb 17

🚨 “They want no one stopping them from making as much profit as they can.” — Paul Osadebe, a federal attorney and union steward, speaking out.

Musk & Trump are gutting public services so corporations can pollute, scam, & exploit without accountability. Workers are fighting back.

Lee Seltzer @leeseltzer.bsky.social · Feb 14

The variation according to income levels is interesting too. The lower income you are, the less likely you are to have an opinion/care

Lee Seltzer @leeseltzer.bsky.social · Feb 3

Indeed, we live in truly strange and bizarre times

Lee Seltzer @leeseltzer.bsky.social · Feb 3

It’ll be interesting to see what this looks like. Also surprising to see something like this coming out of the “anti-socialism” party www.reuters.com/markets/weal...

Trump signs executive order to create sovereign wealth fund

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday ordering the U.S. Treasury and Commerce Departments to create a sovereign wealth fund.

www.reuters.com

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Lee Seltzer @leeseltzer.bsky.social · Jan 15

Any real estate people on here have any sources/insights on the differences between the ZHVI and the corelogic HPI? #EconSky

Lee Seltzer @leeseltzer.bsky.social · Jan 2

I love how the njtransit part of Penn station is filled with messaging that Jersey is a place worth spending time in, they’re truly doing gods work

Lee Seltzer @leeseltzer.bsky.social · Jan 1

Looking forward to traveling to SF this week to present my paper “Household Credit and Spending Under Usury Limits” at ASSA!

Lee Seltzer @leeseltzer.bsky.social · Dec 31

Amount of any settlers of catan game I spend standing up: 90%
Amount of any other board game I spend standing up: 0%

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · Dec 31

I'm currently building a starter pack on a critical topic: the role of finance in driving climate resilience, mitigation, and a circular economy.

Investors, financial experts, development banks, researchers, innovators: who’s leading the charge in this space? Give me your top recommendations!

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Lee Seltzer @leeseltzer.bsky.social · Dec 21

Got the same fake recruiting spam text three times in an hour so finally decided to respond with this

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Dec 2

Got AEA & ASSA emails this morning abt hotel workers striking in SF?

Want to figure out what it means & what your options are?

See this analysis @shirkandsteal.bsky.social @jennifercohen.bsky.social & me, & our call to support 3 small ASSA policy changes
#EconSky
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Hotel workers' strike and the 2025 ASSA annual meeting - Aaron Sojourner

By Hannah Archambault, Jennifer Cohen, and Aaron Sojourner Are you planning to attend the 2025 ASSA meetings in San Francisco? If so, then you are planning to attend events at a hotel where the empl...

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Lee Seltzer @leeseltzer.bsky.social · Dec 6

Thank you so much for putting this together! I just switched to a unionized hotel

Lee Seltzer @leeseltzer.bsky.social · Dec 5

Serious question: if you post on Bluesky what’s it called? I’ve been using the word tweet but obviously this is incorrect

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Lauri Kytömaa 🇺🇦 @kytola.bsky.social · Dec 4

Day 2 visiting @newyorkfed.bsky.social! Working with @leeseltzer.bsky.social on a new project relating to evictions and foreclosure and looking forward to meeting with a talented group of RAs.

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Lee Seltzer @leeseltzer.bsky.social · Dec 3

Added!

Lee Seltzer @leeseltzer.bsky.social · Nov 29

Here’s one recent paper academic.oup.com/rof/article/...

Does Money Talk? Divestitures and Corporate Environmental and Social Policies*

Abstract. Can shareholders’ divestitures and threats of exit trigger improvements in firms’ environmental and social (E&S) policies? We show that E&

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