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Working Papers

2006

1. Social Security Privatization with Income-Mortality Correlation
   Working Papers, University of Michigan, Michigan Retirement Research Center
2. Top Ten Myths Of Social Security Reform
   Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Center for Retirement Research

2005

3. Does Social Security Privatization Produce Efficiency Gains?
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
   Also in Working Papers, University of Michigan, Michigan Retirement Research Center (2005)
   See also Journal Article in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2007)
4. Insuring Against Terrorism: The Policy Challenge
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
5. Measuring Social Security's Financial Problems
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
   Also in Working Papers, University of Michigan, Michigan Retirement Research Center (2005)
6. Social Security Privatization with Elastic Labor Supply and Second-Best Taxes
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
   Also in Working Papers, University of Michigan, Michigan Retirement Research Center (2005)

2004

7. Trading with the Unborn: A New Perspective on Capital Income Taxation
   Working Papers, University of Michigan, Michigan Retirement Research Center View citations
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2003) View citations

2003

8. Consumption Taxes and Economic Efficiency in a Stochastic OLG Economy
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
9. Is the Social Security Trust Fund Worth Anything?
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
10. The (Interesting) Dynamic Properties of the Neoclassical Growth Model with CES Production
    NBER Technical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    See also Journal Article in Review of Economic Dynamics (2003)

2002

11. Controlling the Cost of Minimum Benefit Guarantees in Public Pension Conversions
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Pension Economics and Finance (2002)
12. Dropping Out of Social Security
    Working Papers, University of Michigan, Michigan Retirement Research Center
13. Moral Hazard in Reinsurance Markets
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
14. Ricardian Equivalence with Incomplete Household Risk Sharing
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

2001

15. Finding a Way Out of America's Demographic Dilemma
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
16. The Coming Generational Storm
    Computing in Economics and Finance 2001, Society for Computational Economics View citations
17. The Equivalence of the Social Security's Trust Fund Portfolio Allocation and Capital Income Tax Policy
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
18. The Exchange Theory of Teenage Smoking and the Counterproductiveness of Moderate Regulation
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
19. Who Bears the Burden of the Corporate Tax in The Open Economy?
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

1998

20. Opting Out of Social Security and Adverse Selection
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
21. Social Security: Privatization and Progressivity
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (1998)

1997

22. Simulating U.S. Tax Reform
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    Also in Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (1997) View citations

Undated

23. Thinking About Social Security's Trust Fund
    Pension Research Council Working Papers, Wharton School Pension Research Council, University of Pennsylvania View citations

Journal Articles

2007

1. Does Social Security Privatization Produce Efficiency Gains?
   The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007, 122, (4), 1677-1719 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2005)
2. Mitigating America's demographic dilemma by pre-funding social security
   Journal of Monetary Economics, 2007, 54, (2), 247-266 View citations

2006

3. Does the Open Economy Assumption Really Mean That Labor Bears the Burden of a Capital Income Tax?
   Advances in Economic Analysis & Policy, 2006, 6, (1), 1548-1548 View citations
4. Risk sharing across generations without publicly owned equities
   Journal of Monetary Economics, 2006, 53, (7), 1493-1508 View citations

2005

5. Consumption Taxes and Economic Efficiency with Idiosyncratic Wage Shocks
   Journal of Political Economy, 2005, 113, (5), 1088-1115 View citations

2004

6. Is the Social Security Trust Fund a Store of Value?
   American Economic Review, 2004, 94, (2), 176-181 View citations
7. Opting out of social security
   Journal of Public Economics, 2004, 88, (7-8), 1295-1306 View citations

2003

8. Fiscal and generational imbalances: new budget measures for new budget priorities
   Policy Discussion Papers, 2003, (Dec) View citations
9. The (Interesting) Dynamic Properties of the Neoclassical Growth Model with CES Production
   Review of Economic Dynamics, 2003, 6, (3), 697-707 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2003)

2002

10. Controlling the cost of minimum benefit guarantees in public pension conversions
    Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2002, 1, (01), 9-33 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2002)

1999

11. Discounting Inside the Washington D.C. Beltway
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1999, 13, (4), 213-228 View citations
12. Privatizing Social Security in the U.S. -- Comparing the Options
    Review of Economic Dynamics, 1999, 2, (3), 532-574 View citations
13. Ricardian equivalence: long-run Leviathan
    Journal of Public Economics, 1999, 73, (3), 395-421 View citations

1998

14. Assessing fundamental tax reform
    Economic Commentary, 1998, (Jan 15)
15. Social Security: Privatization and Progressivity
    American Economic Review, 1998, 88, (2), 137-41 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1998)

Chapters

2006

1. Fiscal and Generational Imbalances: An Update
   A chapter in Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 20, 2006, pp 193-223 View citations
2. Pricing Personal Account Benefit Guarantees: A Simplified Approach
   A chapter in Social Security Policy in a Changing Environment, 2006

2002

3. Distributional Effects in a General Equilibrium Analysis of Social Security
   A chapter in The Distributional Aspects of Social Security and Social Security Reform, 2002, pp 327-370 View citations

2001

4. The Effect of Pay-When-Needed Benefit Guarantees on the Impact of Social Security Privatization
   A chapter in Risk Aspects of Investment-Based Social Security Reform, 2001, pp 91-112 View citations