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Derek Thieme

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Derek Thieme

  • MA Fellow

Derek Thieme grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana and received his BA in economics from Carthage College in 2009.  During college he enjoyed working with other students who were interested in economics and he helped establish a chapter of Omicron Delta Epsilon, an international economics fraternity, at Carthage.  Derek became especially interested in macroeconomics during his senior year and he wrote his senior thesis about how events during the Great Depression can help explain the financial crisis of 2008.  During the fall of 2009 he went through the Koch Internship Program and was placed at the Mercatus Center, which inspired him to pursue graduate school at George Mason University.

Working Papers

Regulation in the Pulp and Paper Industry: Costs and Consequences

Colleen Haight, Derek Thieme | May 15, 2012
The paper and pulp industry is one of the most heavily regulated industries in the United States. This working paper investigates the extent to which environmental and workplace regulations affect the industry and evaluate the impact of these regulations on the industry, its customers, its employees and society in general.

The U.S. Experience With Fiscal Stimulus

Antony Davies, Bruce Yandle, Derek Thieme, Robert Sarvis | Apr 05, 2012
Can deliberate government spending activities have a continuing net positive impact on economic activity? Do federal spending programs designed to offset a recession’s negative effects really add a net positive nudge to GDP growth? Can government purposefully and successfully stimulate ongoing employment growth?

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