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Co-Director

Ted Gayer

Ted Gayer

Co-Director, Economic Studies
Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow, Economic Studies

Ted Gayer is the co-director of the Economic Studies program and the Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He conducts research on a variety of economic issues, focusing particularly on public finance, environmental and energy economics, housing, and regulatory policy.



Expertise

Public finance, environmental and energy economics, housing, and regulatory policy.

Background

Past Positions
Associate Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University (2004-2009); Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the Department of the Treasury (2007-2008); Visiting fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California (2006-2007); Visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (2004-2006); Senior economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (2003-2004)

Education

Ph.D. - Duke University (1997)


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Q&A with Ted Gayer

The Government Takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

"Part of the lesson we learned here is the problem of 'too big to fail.' Essentially that's what Freddie and Freddie became. And everybody had said that all along and, sure enough, they were too big to fail. And the implications of that were harmful." - Ted Gayer, co-director, Economic Studies

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