Thomas Coleman

University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy

Executive Director, Center for Economic Policy

1155 East 60th Street

Chicago, IL 60637

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (21)

1.

A Guide to Duration, DV01, and Yield Curve Risk Transformations

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 01 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 23 Jan 2011
Thomas Coleman
University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy
Downloads 5,346 (3,506)
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DV01, Duration, Key Rate Duration, Interest Rate Risk, Yield Curve Risk, Dollar Duration, Modified Duration, Partial DV01

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Causality in the Time of Cholera: John Snow As a Prototype for Causal Inference

Number of pages: 86 Posted: 30 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2019
Thomas Coleman
University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy
Downloads 1,812 (20,258)
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John Snow, Cholera, Causal Inference, Epidemiology, Statistical Methodology, History of Science

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A Practical Guide to Risk Management (A Summary)

Research Foundation of CFA Institute Monograph, 2012
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 15 Jun 2013
Thomas Coleman
University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy
Downloads 1,628 (23,829)

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risk management, Research Foundation of CFA Institute, Coleman

4.

How Much Does U.S. Fiscal System Redistribute?

University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. #991
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 29 Nov 2023 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2024
Thomas Coleman and David A. Weisbach
University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy and University of Chicago - Law School
Downloads 1,209 (37,037)

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progressivity, redistribution, inequality

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Three Myths About US Economic Inequality and Social Mobility

Capitalism & Society, Volume 15, Issue 1 (2021)
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 16 Dec 2021
Xi Song, Michael Lachanski and Thomas Coleman
University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University and University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy
Downloads 1,038 (46,220)

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Income inequality,top 1%,tax transfers,intergenerational mobility,human capital,market power

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A Primer on Credit Default Swaps (CDS)

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 20 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2010
Thomas Coleman
University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy
Downloads 1,026 (46,949)
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Credit default swap, CDS, valuation, risk

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Fitting Forward Rates to Market Data

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 26 Jun 2007
Thomas Coleman
University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy
Downloads 772 (69,292)
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Forward Curve, Forward Rates, Yield Curve, Term Structure of Interest Rates

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A Practical Guide to Bonds and Swaps

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 17 Feb 2010
Thomas Coleman
University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy
Downloads 710 (77,320)
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Bond, Swap, Market-to-Market, Risk

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Swap Valuation with Dual Curves - Approximations

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 14 Mar 2017
Thomas Coleman
University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy
Downloads 500 (120,229)

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Swap Valuation Dual-Curve OIS

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A Modern Statistical Re-Analysis of John Snow’s 1854 South London ‘Grand Experiment’

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 05 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2024
Thomas Coleman
University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy
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John Snow, Cholera, Causal Inference, Epidemiology, Statistical Methodology, History of Science

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Probability, Expected Utility, and the Ellsberg Paradox

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 27 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 24 May 2011
Thomas Coleman
University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy
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Probability, Expected Utility, Risk, Ambiguity

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Estimating the Correlation of Non-Contemporaneous Time-Series

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 15 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2008
Thomas Coleman
University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy
Downloads 394 (159,094)
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Covariance, Correlation, Asynchronous Trading, Non-synchronous Trading, Closing-Time Problem

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How Precision of the Sharpe Ratio Improves With Monthly Data

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 27 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 24 Jan 2018
Thomas Coleman
University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy
Downloads 185 (343,622)

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Sharpe, Sharpe Ratio, sampling distribution, non-central Student-t, small-sample distribution, large-sample distribution, asymptotic distribution, confidence interval

14.

Puzzles of Inflation, Money, and Debt: Applying the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level

CFA Institute Research Foundation Briefs, November 2021, ISBN 978-1-952927-22-5
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 15 Dec 2021
Thomas Coleman, Bryan Oliver and Laurence B. Siegel
University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy, Flashpoint Intelligence and CFA Institute Research Foundation
Downloads 164 (382,173)

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Cyclical Employment and Unemployment Flows in the U.S.

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 23 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 26 Aug 2010
Thomas Coleman
University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy
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Job flows, employment fluctuations, labor force, employment dynamics, worker flows

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Financial Risk Measurement and Joint Extreme Events: The Normal, Student-T, and Mixture of Normals

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 17 May 2014
Thomas Coleman
University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy
Downloads 146 (421,017)

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Risk management, extreme events, fat tails, fait-tailed distribution, extreme value theory

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A Dynamic Model of Labor Supply Under Uncertainty

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 02 Apr 2008
Thomas Coleman
University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy
Downloads 118 (497,919)
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Three-state model, Labor supply, Unemployment, Aggregation

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How Much Does U.S. Fiscal System Redistribute?

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2024-147, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 1024, University of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 876
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 20 Nov 2024 Last Revised: 23 Jan 2025
Thomas Coleman and David A. Weisbach
University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy and University of Chicago - Law School
Downloads 97 (573,992)

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progressivity, redistribution, inequality

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Re-Evaluating John Snow's 1856 South London Study

Social Science & Medicine
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 06 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 04 Feb 2024
Thomas Coleman
University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy
Downloads 77 (659,359)
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John Snow, Cholera, Causal Inference, Epidemiology, Statistical Methodology, History of Science

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Notes on Dependence, Correlation, and Discrete Copulas, with Application to Exchange Mobility and Assortative Matching

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 26 Jan 2025 Last Revised: 07 Feb 2025
Thomas Coleman
University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy
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A Note on Using Fiscal (Tax) Income for Measuring the Distribution of Income

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 26 Jan 2025
Thomas Coleman
University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy
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Income distribution, Inequality, Top 1% share, Fiscal income