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Working Papers

2009

1. Capital Income Taxes with Heterogeneous Discount Rates
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
2. Reforming Pensions
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo Group Munich
   Also in Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research (2008)
3. Taxes and Pensions
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo Group Munich

2006

4. (UBS Pensions Series 041) The Economics of Pensions
   FMG Discussion Papers, Financial Markets Group

2005

5. (UBS Pensions Series 038) Reforming Public Pensions in the US and the UK
   FMG Discussion Papers, Financial Markets Group
6. Pensions for an Aging Population
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

2003

7. Annuities And Individual Welfare
   Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research View citations
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2003) View citations
   See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (2005)
8. What Stock Market Returns To Expect For The Future?
   Issues in Brief, Center for Retirement Research View citations

2002

9. An Assessment of the Proposals of the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
   See also Journal Article in Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy (2002)
10. Social Security Investment In Equities I: Linear Case
    Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (1999) View citations
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics (1999) View citations
11. Social Security Investment in Equities
    Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, Cowles Foundation, Yale University View citations
    See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (2003)

2001

12. Towards an Optimal Social Security Design
    CeRP Working Papers, Center for Research on Pensions and Welfare Policies, Turin (Italy)

2000

13. Delays in claiming social security benefits
    CORE Discussion Papers, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) View citations
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (1999) View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economics (2002)
14. Social Security Investment in Equities in an Economy with Short-Term Production and Land
    Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, Cowles Foundation, Yale University

1999

15. Administrative Costs and Equilibrium Charges with Individual Accounts
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    See also Chapter (2000)

1998

16. The Economics of Social Security Reform
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

1997

17. Efficiency Effects of Punitive Damages
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics View citations
    Also in Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics (1997) View citations
18. Integrating Punishment and Efficiency Concerns in Punitive Damages for Reckless Disregard of Risks to Others
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Law, Economics and Organization (2002)
19. Rationing Medical Care: An Economist's Perspective
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics View citations
20. Social Security and Retirement in the U.S
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

1995

21. Managing Incentives: On the Near Optimality of Linearity
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics

1994

22. Insulation of Pensions from Political Risk
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    Also in Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics (1994)
23. On the Near Optimality of Linear Incentives
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics
24. Optimal Income Taxation: An Exemple with a U-Shaped Pattern of Optimal Marginal Tax Rates
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics View citations
    See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (1998)

1993

25. Privatization of Social Security: Lessons from Chile
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
26. Testing the Internal Consistency of Contingent Valuation Surveys
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (1996)

1992

27. Economic Aspects of Optimal Disability Benefits
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economics (1995)
28. The Flow Approach to Labor Markets
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (1992)

1991

29. Search, Sticky Prices, and Inflation with Consumer Differences
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics
30. The Aggregate Matching Function
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

1990

31. INTEGRATING ALLOCATION STABILIZATION BUDGETS
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics
32. RANKING, UNEMPLOYMENT DURATION, AND WAGES
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics View citations
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (1990) View citations
    See also Journal Article in Review of Economic Studies (1994)

1988

33. Search, Sticky Prices, and Inflation
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics View citations
    See also Journal Article in Review of Economic Studies (1993)
34. Stochastic Credit in Search Equilibrium, II
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics

1987

35. Rational Expectations Business Cycles in Search Equilibrium
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Political Economy (1989)

1986

36. Stochastic Credit in Search Equilibrium
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics

1985

37. Consumer Differences and Prices in a Search Model
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics View citations
    See also Journal Article in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (1987)
38. Equilibrium Without An Auctioneer
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics
39. Pricing and the Distribution of Money Holdings in a Search Economy
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics
40. Search Theory
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics View citations

1983

41. The Distribution of Inventory Holdings in a Pure Exchange Barter Search Economy
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics
    See also Journal Article in Econometrica (1985)

1982

42. Money in Search Equilibrium
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics View citations
    See also Journal Article in Econometrica (1984)
43. Social Insurance with Variable Retirement and Private Saving
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics View citations

1980

44. Aggregate Demand Management in Search Equilibrium
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Political Economy (1982)
45. Mobility Costs, Frictional Unemployment and Efficiency
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Political Economy (1981)

1979

46. An Equilibrium Analysis of Search and Breach of Contract, II: A Non-Steady State Example
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Theory (1981)

1978

47. An Equilibrium Analysis of Search and Breach of Contract
    The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS), University of Warwick, Department of Economics
    Also in Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics (1978) View citations
48. Optimal Taxation in a Stochastic Economy: A Cobb-Douglas Example
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economics (1980)

1977

49. A Model of Social Insurance With Variable Retirement
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economics (1978)
50. Explaining the Relative Efficiency of Slave Agriculture in the Antebellum South: Comment
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics
51. Tax Incidence in a Two Good Model
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economics (1978)

1976

52. Welfare Analysis of Imperfect Information Equilibria
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics
    See also Journal Article in Bell Journal of Economics (1978)

1975

53. A Many-Person Ramsey Tax Rule
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economics (1975)
54. On the Assignment of Liability: The Uniform Case
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics View citations
    See also Journal Article in Bell Journal of Economics (1975)
55. Private Constant Returns and Public Shadow Prices
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics View citations
    See also Journal Article in Review of Economic Studies (1976)

1973

56. Increase and in Risk Aversion
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics
57. Inflation and the Comprehensive Tax Base
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economics (1975)
58. Single Activity Accidents
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics View citations

1968

59. Optimal Taxation and Public Production
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics View citations

1967

60. Incidence of an Interest Income Tax
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Theory (1970)
61. Opportunity Costs and Public Investment: Comment
    Working papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics

1962

62. Stationary Utility and Time Preference
    Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, Cowles Foundation, Yale University

Undated

63. Savings and Portfolio Choice in a Two-Period Two-Asset Model
    Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, Cowles Foundation, Yale University View citations
    See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (2002)

Journal Articles

2008

1. Behavioral economics
   Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92, (8-9), 1858-1862

2007

2. Saving Social Security: The Diamond-Orszag Plan
   The Economists' Voice, 2007, 2, (1), 8
3. Top-heavy load: Trouble ahead for social security systems, Introduction by Peter A. Diamond
   CESifo Forum, 2007, 8, (3), 28-36

2006

4. Optimal tax treatment of private contributions for public goods with and without warm glow preferences
   Journal of Public Economics, 2006, 90, (4-5), 897-919 View citations
5. Reforming Public Pensions in the US and the UK
   Economic Journal, 2006, 116, (509), F94-F118
6. The Economics of Pensions
   Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2006, 22, (1), 15-39 View citations

2005

7. Annuities and Individual Welfare
   American Economic Review, 2005, 95, (5), 1573-1590 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2003)
8. Saving Social Security
   Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2005, 19, (2), 11-32 View citations

2004

9. Social Security
   American Economic Review, 2004, 94, (1), 1-24 View citations

2003

10. Foreword
    American Economic Review, 2003, 93, (2), 8-8
11. Quasi-hyperbolic discounting and retirement
    Journal of Public Economics, 2003, 87, (9-10), 1839-1872 View citations
12. Social Security Investment in Equities
    American Economic Review, 2003, 93, (4), 1047-1074 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2002)

2002

13. An Assessment of the Proposals of the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security
    Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy, 2002, 1, (1), 1072-1072 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2002)
14. Delays in claiming social security benefits
    Journal of Public Economics, 2002, 84, (3), 357-385 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2000)
15. Integrating Punishment and Efficiency Concerns in Punitive Damages for Reckless Disregard of Risks to Others
    Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2002, 18, (1), 117-139 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1997)
16. Public Finance Theory - Then and Now
    Journal of Public Economics, 2002, 86, (3), 311-317 View citations
17. Savings and Portfolio Choice in a Two-Period Two-Asset Model
    American Economic Review, 2002, 92, (4), 1185-1191 View citations
    See also Working Paper

2000

18. Social Security Reform
    'Angelo Costa' Lectures Serie, 2000, (Lect. I)

1998

19. Managerial Incentives: On the Near Linearity of Optimal Compensation
    Journal of Political Economy, 1998, 106, (5), 931-957 View citations
20. Optimal Income Taxation: An Example with a U-Shaped Pattern of Optimal Marginal Tax Rates
    American Economic Review, 1998, 88, (1), 83-95 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1994)

1997

21. Macroeconomics Aspects of Social Security Reform
    Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1997, 28, (1997-2), 1-88 View citations
22. Money Illusion
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1997, 112, (2), 341-74 View citations
23. Political aspects of Social Security reform
    Conference Series ; [Proceedings], 1997, (Jun), 287-292

1996

24. Proposals to Restructure Social Security
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1996, 10, (3), 67-88 View citations
25. Public Provision of Pensions: The Doug Purvis Memorial Lecture
    Canadian Public Policy, 1996, 22, (1), 1-6 View citations
26. Testing the Internal Consistency of Contingent Valuation Surveys
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1996, 30, (3), 337-347 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1993)

1995

27. Economic aspects of optimal disability benefits
    Journal of Public Economics, 1995, 57, (1), 1-23 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1992)

1994

28. Contingent Valuation: Is Some Number Better than No Number?
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1994, 8, (4), 45-64 View citations
29. Ranking, Unemployment Duration, and Wages
    Review of Economic Studies, 1994, 61, (3), 417-34 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1990)
30. Two Improvements on the Clinton Framework
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1994, 8, (3), 61-66 View citations

1993

31. Search, Sticky Prices, and Inflation
    Review of Economic Studies, 1993, 60, (1), 53-68 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1988)

1992

32. Organizing the Health Insurance Market
    Econometrica, 1992, 60, (6), 1233-54 View citations
33. The Flow Approach to Labor Markets
    American Economic Review, 1992, 82, (2), 354-59 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1992)

1991

34. Rational Expectations Business Cycles in Search Equilibrium: A Correction
    Journal of Political Economy, 1991, 99, (1), 218-19

1990

35. Inventories and Money Holdings in a Search Economy
    Econometrica, 1990, 58, (4), 929-50 View citations
36. Pairwise Credit in Search Equilibrium
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1990, 105, (2), 285-319 View citations
37. The Cyclical Behovior of the Gross Flows of U.S. Workers
    Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1990, 21, (1990-2), 85-156 View citations
38. The Real Effects of Tax-Based Incomes Policies: Comment
    Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 1990, 92, (2), 325-28

1989

39. Rational Expectations Business Cycles in Search Equilibrium
    Journal of Political Economy, 1989, 97, (3), 606-19 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1987)
40. The Beveridge Curve
    Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1989, 20, (1989-1), 1-76 View citations

1987

41. Consumer Differences and Prices in a Search Model
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1987, 102, (2), 429-36 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1985)
42. Multiple Equilibria in Models of Credit
    American Economic Review, 1987, 77, (2), 82-86 View citations

1986

43. Intertemporal Aspects of Learning New Techniques: Implications for Efficiency and Distribution: Comment
    Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 1986, 88, (1), 189-94
44. Payroll-Tax Financed Social Insurance with Variable Retirement
    Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 1986, 88, (1), 25-50 View citations

1985

45. The Distribution of Inventory Holdings in a Pure Exchange Barter Search Economy
    Econometrica, 1985, 53, (2), 409-32 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1983)

1984

46. Individual retirement and savings behavior
    Journal of Public Economics, 1984, 23, (1-2), 81-114 View citations
47. Money in Search Equilibrium
    Econometrica, 1984, 52, (1), 1-20 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1982)

1982

48. Aggregate Demand Management in Search Equilibrium
    Journal of Political Economy, 1982, 90, (5), 881-94 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1980)
49. Wage Determination and Efficiency in Search Equilibrium
    Review of Economic Studies, 1982, 49, (2), 217-27 View citations

1981

50. An equilibrium analysis of search and breach of contract II. A non-steady state example
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1981, 25, (2), 165-195 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1979)
51. Mobility Costs, Frictional Unemployment, and Efficiency
    Journal of Political Economy, 1981, 89, (4), 798-812 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1980)

1980

52. An alternative to steady-state comparisons
    Economics Letters, 1980, 5, (1), 7-9 View citations
53. Efficiency with Uncertain Supply
    Review of Economic Studies, 1980, 47, (4), 645-51 View citations
54. Income taxation with fixed hours of work
    Journal of Public Economics, 1980, 13, (1), 101-110 View citations
55. Optimal taxation in a stochastic economy: A Cobb-Douglas example
    Journal of Public Economics, 1980, 14, (1), 1-29 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1978)

1979

56. An Equilibrium Analysis of Search and Breach of Contract, I: Steady States
    Bell Journal of Economics, 1979, 10, (1), 282-316 View citations

1978

57. A model of social insurance with variable retirement
    Journal of Public Economics, 1978, 10, (3), 295-336 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1977)
58. Tax incidence in a two good model
    Journal of Public Economics, 1978, 9, (3), 283-299 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1977)
59. Welfare Analysis of Imperfect Information Equilibria
    Bell Journal of Economics, 1978, 9, (1), 82-105
    See also Working Paper (1976)

1977

60. A framework for social security analysis
    Journal of Public Economics, 1977, 8, (3), 275-298 View citations

1976

61. Private Constant Returns and Public Shadow Prices
    Review of Economic Studies, 1976, 43, (1), 41-47 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1975)

1975

62. A many-person Ramsey tax rule
    Journal of Public Economics, 1975, 4, (4), 335-342 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1975)
63. Inflation and the comprehensive tax base
    Journal of Public Economics, 1975, 4, (3), 227-244 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1973)
64. On the Assignment of Liability: The Uniform Case
    Bell Journal of Economics, 1975, 6, (2), 487-516 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1975)

1974

65. Accident Law and Resource Allocation
    Bell Journal of Economics, 1974, 5, (2), 366-405 View citations
66. Increases in risk and in risk aversion
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1974, 8, (3), 337-360 View citations
67. Posner's Economic Analysis of Law
    Bell Journal of Economics, 1974, 5, (1), 294-300
68. Some uses of the expenditure function in public finance
    Journal of Public Economics, 1974, 3, (1), 3-21 View citations

1973

69. Aggregate Production with Consumption Externalities
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1973, 87, (1), 1-24 View citations
70. Consumption Externalities and Imperfect Corrective Pricing
    Bell Journal of Economics, 1973, 4, (2), 526-538 View citations

1972

71. Implications of the Theory of Rationing for Consumer Choice Under Uncertainty
    American Economic Review, 1972, 62, (3), 333-43 View citations

1971

72. A model of price adjustment
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1971, 3, (2), 156-168 View citations
73. Customs valuation and transport choice
    Journal of International Economics, 1971, 1, (1), 119-126 View citations
74. Optimal Taxation and Public Production II: Tax Rules
    American Economic Review, 1971, 61, (3), 261-78 View citations
75. Optimal Taxation and Public Production: I--Production Efficiency
    American Economic Review, 1971, 61, (1), 8-27 View citations

1970

76. Incidence of an interest income tax
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1970, 2, (3), 211-224 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1967)

1967

77. Cardinal Welfare, Individualistic Ethics, and Interpersonal Comparison of Utility: Comment
    Journal of Political Economy, 1967, 75, 765 View citations

1965

78. On the Cost of Tax-exempt Bonds
    Journal of Political Economy, 1965, 73, 399

Books

2005

1. Taxation, Incomplete Markets, and Social Security, vol 1
   MIT Press Books, The MIT Press
   Also in MIT Press Books, The MIT Press (2003)

Edited books

1999

1. Issues in Privatizing Social Security: Report of an Expert Panel of the National Academy of Social Insurance, vol 1
   MIT Press Books, The MIT Press

1990

2. Growth / Productivity / Unemployment, vol 1
   MIT Press Books, The MIT Press

Chapters

2007

1. Introduction to Behavioral Economics and Its Applications
   A chapter in Behavioral Economics and Its Applications, 2007

2000

2. Administrative Costs and Equilibrium Charges with Individual Accounts
   A chapter in Administrative Aspects of Investment-Based Social Security Reform, 2000, pp 137-172 View citations
   See also Working Paper (1999)

1999

3. Social Security and Retirement in the United States
   A chapter in Social Security and Retirement around the World, 1999, pp 437-473 View citations

1994

4. Pension Reform in a Transition Economy: Notes on Poland and Chile
   A chapter in Transition in Eastern Europe, Volume 2, The, 1994, pp 71-110 View citations

1985

5. Insurance Aspects of Pensions
   A chapter in Pensions, Labor, and Individual Choice, 1985, pp 317-356 View citations

1982

6. Protection, Trade Adjustment Assistance, and Income Distribution
   A chapter in Import Competition and Response, 1982, pp 123-150 View citations

1978

7. Measurement of the Elasticity of Factor Substitution and Bias of Technical Change
   Chapter 5 in Production Economics: A Dual Approach to Theory and Applications, 1978, vol. 2 View citations