Scott Baker

Research interests

Publications

• Using Disasters to Estimate the Impact of Uncertainty

  The Review of Economic Studies · 2023 · 10.1093/restud/rdad036

• State-level economic policy uncertainty

  Journal of Monetary Economics · 2022 · 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2022.08.004

• Economic uncertainty before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

  Journal of Public Economics · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104274

• The Unprecedented Stock Market Reaction to COVID-19

  The Review of Asset Pricing Studies · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1093/rapstu/raaa008

• How Does Household Spending Respond to an Epidemic? Consumption during the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic

  The Review of Asset Pricing Studies · 2020 · 10.1093/rapstu/raaa009

• COVID-Induced Economic Uncertainty

  National Bureau of Economic Research · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.3386/w26983

• The Unprecedented Stock Market Impact of COVID-19

  National Bureau of Economic Research · 2020 · 10.3386/w26945

• How Does Household Spending Respond to an Epidemic? Consumption During the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic

  National Bureau of Economic Research · 2020 · 10.3386/w26949

• Debt and the Response to Household Income Shocks: Validation and Application of Linked Financial Account Data

  Journal of Political Economy · 2018 · 10.1086/698106

• Shopping for Lower Sales Tax Rates

  American Economic Journal Macroeconomics · 2017 · 10.1257/mac.20190026

• A parts list for fungal cellulosomes revealed by comparative genomics

  Nature Microbiology · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nmicrobiol.2017.87

• The Impact of Unemployment Insurance on Job Search: Evidence from Google Search Data

  The Review of Economics and Statistics · 2017 · 10.1162/rest_a_00674

• Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty*

  The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjw024

• Income changes and consumption: Evidence from the 2013 federal government shutdown

  Review of Economic Dynamics · 2016 · 10.1016/j.red.2016.09.005

• Effects of Immigrant Legalization on Crime

  American Economic Review · 2015 · 10.1257/aer.p20151041

• Extensive sampling of basidiomycete genomes demonstrates inadequacy of the white-rot/brown-rot paradigm for wood decay fungi

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1400592111

• Why Has US Policy Uncertainty Risen Since 1960?

  American Economic Review · 2014 · 10.1257/aer.104.5.56

• Does Uncertainty Reduce Growth? Using Disasters as Natural Experiments

  National Bureau of Economic Research · 2013 · 10.3386/w19475

• Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2198490

• A versatile toolkit for high throughput functional genomics with Trichoderma reesei

  Biotechnology for Biofuels · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1186/1754-6834-5-1

• The Plant Cell Wall–Decomposing Machinery Underlies the Functional Diversity of Forest Fungi

  Science · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1205411

• Comparative genome sequence analysis underscores mycoparasitism as the ancestral life style of Trichoderma

  Genome biology · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2011-12-4-r40

• Comparative genomic analysis of the thermophilic biomass-degrading fungi Myceliophthora thermophila and Thielavia terrestris

  Nature Biotechnology · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.1976

• Fueling the future with fungal genomics

  Mycology&#58 An International Journal on Fungal Biology · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1080/21501203.2011.584577

• Genome sequence of the model mushroom Schizophyllum commune

  Nature Biotechnology · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.1643

• Comparative genomics reveals mobile pathogenicity chromosomes in Fusarium

  Nature · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature08850

• Genome sequencing and analysis of the biomass-degrading fungus Trichoderma reesei (syn. Hypocrea jecorina)

  Nature Biotechnology · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt1403

• The Fusarium graminearum Genome Reveals a Link Between Localized Polymorphism and Pathogen Specialization

  Science · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1143708

• Copper and Human Health: Biochemistry, Genetics, and Strategies for Modeling Dose-response Relationships

  Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health Part B · 2007 · 10.1080/10937400600755911

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