Waldo (Tekampa) Ojeda

Firing the BLS Commissioner because you don't like the data is a dark day.

I feel we're failing teaching Finance

A sigh of relief

It's going to be a slightly better day when the mystery lunch box in the Finance seminar comes with a bag of Cheetos

After reading Carola Binder's Shock Values book, I'm wondering why potential price controls from the administration are not mentioned as a possibility if prices start increasing? Seems they are politically popular short-term and another government power leverage

This was….five months ago

Why Small Firms Take a Pass on Profitable Opportunities And how they can be encouraged to buy in.

Small businesses don’t always take advantage of simple opportunities to improve their bottom line. Why not?

@kellogginsight.bsky.social covers our research on this question in Mexico 🇲🇽 (w Paul Gertler, Ulrike Malmendier, and @waldo-tk.bsky.social)

insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/why-...!

Jerome Powell's tone in his current testimony is especially calming these days

He was super close making the US Open a few months ago. Got to see him play during the qualifiers!

Transit benefits sound like a benefit until one has to deal with customer service. Is there an estimate on how much employers get back from unclaimed transit benefits?

The Alienation of Jaime Cachua His friends and family members in Rome, Ga., voted to support mass deportation. Now he’s scrambling to stay in the country.

Just emailed my employer on how to proceed in case I need to deal with potential mass deportation policies
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/u...

I'm not ready for my passive investments to become active

Watching the final of the Mexican soccer league on Univision and a Mexican commentator when talking about a Mexican-American player that plays for the US, referred to the US national soccer team as: "everyone's team" 👍

So proud of the great work happening in Minneapolis, which shows that boosting housing supply helps make homes more affordable.

I'm visiting Vietnam over the holidays! Will report back

This sign still gives me an extra sense of security when I see it dealing with a bank ever since I learned what it means.

Hi Reza -- he didn't share slides but the paper is available on NBER: www.nber.org/system/files...

The post sounded interesting enough even though I didn't know anything about Amir. I lucked out, he answered, I worked for him and he later advised my undergrad thesis. I'm still around in the academic Financial Econ world and got to catch up with him and see him present at Columbia GSB!

About 16 years ago I sent an email to Amir Sufi as an undergrad asking for any RA job he might still have. A job post deadline had passed. I had a tad of interest in Financial Econ but also really wanted another campus job besides an admin work-study.