Nathan Seegert collaborates with policymakers and businesses to further our understanding of the economy. He works on policy-relevant research in taxation, banking, public finance, organizations, and real estate. His work has been published in top academic journals such as The Quarterly Journal of Economics, The Journal of Finance, The Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Journal of Public Economics. He has worked on several policy projects including work on COVID-19 (with a $17.5 million grant and a $10 million project) and state tax revenues. His work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Harvard Business Review, CBS Moneywatch, Forbes, Bloomberg, and The Atlantic.

Nathan has been a visiting fellow with the Hoover Institute at Stanford University and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He previously held a position at the University of Utah and has been a member of the Utah Governor's Economic Council, an Ivory-Boyer Real Estate Center Research Fellow, and a Faculty Advisor for the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute. He is currently the director of the Business and Public Policy Center.

Education

  • PhD, Economics, University of Michigan
  • MA Economics, University of Michigan
  • BA, Economics, University of Wisconsin

Awards & Recognition

  • 2023 Outbreak Analytics and Disease Modeling Network
  • 2021 Utah Economic Surveys
  • 2020 Health and Economic Recovery Outreach
  • 2019 The Sumantra Ghoshal Research and Practice Award
  • 2016 Center for Innovation in Banking and Financial Services

Selected Publications

  • Behrens, K., & Seegert, N. (2025). Rushing to opportunity: A model of entrepreneurship and city growth. Journal of Urban Economics.
  • Berger, E., & Seegert, N. (2024). Half banked: The economic impact of cash management in the marijuana industry. The Journal of Finance, 79, 2759–2796.
  • Bertanha, M., Caetano, C., Jales, H., & Seegert, N. (2024). Bunching estimation methods. In Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics (pp. 1–44). Springer International Publishing.
  • Bertanha, M., McCallum, A. H., & Seegert, N. (2023). Better bunching, nicer notching. Journal of Econometrics, 237, 105512.
  • Coles, J. L., Patel, E., Seegert, N., & Smith, M. (2022). How do firms respond to corporate taxes? Journal of Accounting Research, 60, 965–1006.
  • Konda, A., Patel, E., & Seegert, N. (2022). Tax enforcement and the intended and unintended consequences of information disclosure. Journal of Public Economics, 212, 104690.
  • Patel, E., & Seegert, N. (2020). Does market power encourage or discourage investment? Evidence from the hospital market. The Journal of Law and Economics, 63, 667–698.
  • Sandvik, J. J., Saouma, R. E., Seegert, N., & Stanton, C. T. (2025). Should workplace programs be voluntary or mandatory? Evidence from a field experiment on mentorship. Management Science.
  • Sandvik, J. J., Saouma, R. E., Seegert, N. T., & Stanton, C. T. (2020). Workplace knowledge flows. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 135, 1635–1680.
  • Yang, M.-J., Bertanha, M., Seegert, N., Gaulin, M., Looney, A., Orleans, B., Pavia, A. T., Stratford, K., Samore, M., & Alder, S. (2023). What is the active prevalence of COVID-19? The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1–27.