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Working Papers

2016

1. Publicly Funded Clinical Trials: A Route to Sustained Innovation with Affordable Drugs
   CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
2. Reining in Wall Street to Benefit All Americans
   CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
3. Still Working Hard: An Update on the Share of Older Workers in Physically Demanding Jobs
   CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
4. The Housing Bubble: Is It Back?
   CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
5. The International Trade Commission’s Assessment of the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Main Findings and Implications
   CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
6. Trade and Jobs: Can We Trust the Models?
   CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (2)
7. Working Paper: Rents and Inefficiency in the Patent and Copyright System: Is There a Better Route?
   CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
8. Working Paper: The Compensation of Highly Paid Professionals: How Much Is Rent?
   CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)

2015

9. From Recession to Collapse: The Bush Administration and the Over-Valued Dollar
   CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
10. Measuring Recovery: The Impact of Exempting the Pharmaceutical Industry from Patent Reviews
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
11. Patent Monopolies and the Costs of Mismarketing Drugs
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (4)
12. Pension Funding and the Economy: Would “Proper” Funding Cost Jobs?
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
13. Rising Disability Payments: Are Cuts to Workers’ Compensation Part of the Story?
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
14. The Budgetary Implications of Higher Federal Reserve Board Interest Rates
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
15. The Incidence of Financial Transactions Taxes
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
16. The Social Security Benefits of Sitting Senators in 2015
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
17. Working Paper: The Upward Redistribution of Income: Are Rents the Story?
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (3)

2014

18. The Affordable Care Act: A Family-Friendly Policy
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
19. The Big Tax Increase Nobody Noticed
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
20. The Wealth of Households: An Analysis of the 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (4)

2013

21. Bringing Back Subprime? The Hazards of Restructuring the GSEs
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
22. Financial Engineering: The Simple Way to Reduce Government Debt Burdens
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
23. Honduras Since the Coup: Economic and Social Outcomes
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (2)
24. Reducing Waste With an Efficient Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (2)
25. State Savings with an Efficient Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
26. The Affordable Care Act: A Hidden Jobs Killer?
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)

2012

27. A Primer on Private Equity at Work: Management, Employment, and Sustainability
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (5)
28. Attacking the Treasury View, Again
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
29. First Time Underwater: The Impact of the First-time Homebuyer Tax Credit
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (6)
30. It's So Hard to Get Good Help
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
31. Missing the Story: The OECD's Analysis of Inequality
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (7)
32. Pension Liabilities: Fear Tactics and Serious Policy
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
33. The Impact on Inequality of Raising the Social Security Retirement Age
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (3)
34. The Necessity of a Lower Dollar and the Route There
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
35. The Relationship Between Financial Transactions Costs and Economic Growth
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (2)

2011

36. 7 Things You Need to Know About the National Debt, Deficits, and the Dollar
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
37. A Voluntary Default Savings Plan: An Effective Supplement to Social Security
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
38. Do Tax Cuts Boost the Economy?
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
39. Representative Ryan’s $30 Trillion Medicare Waste Tax
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
40. The Deficit-Reducing Potential of a Financial Speculation Tax
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (2)
41. The Impact of Cutting Social Security Cost of Living Adjustments on the Living Standards of the Elderly
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
42. The Origins and Severity of the Public Pension Crisis
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (2)
43. The Potential Savings to Social Security from Means Testing
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
44. The Ryan Medicare Plan: Winners and Losers
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
45. When Numbers Don't Add Up: The Statistical Discrepancy in GDP Accounts
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (2)
46. Work Sharing: The Quick Route Back to Full Employment
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (8)

2010

47. Action on Social Security: The Urgent Need for Delay
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
48. Feel No Pain: Why a Deficit in Times of High Unemployment is Not a Burden
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
49. Profits on Citigroup Stock: Can They Be the Basis for Financing Stimulus?
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
50. Responses to Criticisms of Taxes on Financial Speculation
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
51. The Budget Deficit Scare Story and the Great Recession
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
52. The Gains from Right to Rent
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
    Also in CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) (2009)
53. The Impact of Income Distribution on the Length of Retirement
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
54. The Impact of Social Security Cuts on Retiree Income
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
55. The Myth of Expansionary Fiscal Austerity
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (8)

2009

56. CBO Projects More Severe Downturn
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
57. Dropping the Ax: Illegal Firings During Union Election Campaigns, 1951-2007
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (5)
58. Free Trade in Health Care: The Gains from Globalized Medicare and Medicaid
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
59. Hitting Bottom? An Updated Analysis of Rents and the Price of Housing in 100 Metropolitan Areas
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
60. Investment Bank Welfare? The Implicit Bank Subsidies in the Primary Dealer Credit Facility (PDCF) and the Term Securities Lending Facility (TSLF) Created by the Federal Reserve Board
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
61. Is the U.S. Unemployment Rate Today Already as High as It Was in 1982?
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
62. Issues in Trade and Protectionism
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
63. Job Sharing: Tax Credits to Prevent Layoffs and Stimulate Employment
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (3)
64. Pay for Play? Tax Credits for Paid Time Off
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
65. Spending Versus Tax Cuts: Who Pays the Cost of Political Compromise?
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
66. Taming the Deficit: Saving Our Children from Themselves
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
67. The $1 Trillion Wage Deficit
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
68. The Housing Crash Recession and the Case for a Third Stimulus
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (2)
69. The Potential Revenue from Financial Transactions Taxes
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (8)
70. The Right to Rent Plan
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
71. The State and Local Drag on the Stimulus
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (4)
72. The Value of the “Too Big to Fail” Big Bank Subsidy
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (44)
73. The Wealth of the Baby Boom Cohorts After the Collapse of the Housing Bubble
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (3)

2008

74. Measuring Poverty and Economic Inclusion: The Current Poverty Measure, the NAS Alternative, and the Case for a Truly New Approach
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
75. Offshore Drilling and Energy Conservation: The Relative Impact on Gas Prices
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
76. Oil Drilling and Automobile Fuel Economy: The Relative Impact on Oil Prices
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
77. Ownership, Rental Costs, and the Prospects of Building Home Equity: An Analysis of 100 Metropolitan Areas
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
78. Slow-Motion Recession: What Congress Can Do to Help
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
79. Subprime Rescue Plans: Backdoor Bank Bailouts
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
80. The Benefits and Savings of Publicly-Funded Clinical Trials of Prescription Drugs
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (2)
81. The Benefits of a Financial Transactions Tax
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (5)
82. The Changing Prospects for Building Home Equity: An Updated Analysis of Rents and the Price of Housing in 100 Metropolitan Areas
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
83. The Cost of Maintaining Ownership in the Current Crisis: Comparisons in 20 Cities
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
84. The Housing Crash and the Retirement Prospects of Late Baby Boomers
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
85. The Impact of the Housing Crash on Family Wealth
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (4)
86. The Impact of the Medicare Drug Benefit on Health Care Spending by Older Households
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
87. The Key to Stabilizing House Prices: Bring Them Down
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
88. Unions and Upward Mobility for Women Workers
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
89. Update - Debt Cancellation for Haiti: No Reason For Further Delays
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
90. What We’re In For: Projected Economic Impact of the Next Recession
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)

2007

91. 2007 Housing Bubble Update: 10 Economic Indicators to Watch
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (3)
92. Behind the Gap Between Productivity and Wage Growth
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (5)
93. Celebrating Pork: The Dubious Success of the Medicare Drug Benefit Health Insurance for the Elderly
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
94. Stagnation in the Drug Development Process: Are Patents the Problem?
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (2)
95. The Productivity to Paycheck Gap: What the Data Show
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (9)

2006

96. A Note on Distribution and Growth
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
97. Are Protective Labor Market Institutions Really at the Root of Unemployment? A Critical Perspective on the Statistical Evidence
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (18)
98. Beyond the Conservative Nanny State: Policies to Promote Self-Sufficiency Among the Wealthy
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
99. Increasing Inequality in the United States
    CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
100. Is the Housing Bubble Collapsing? 10 Economic Indicators to Watch
     CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
101. Missing Inaction: Evidence of Undercounting of Non-Workers in the Current Population Survey
     CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (5)
102. Old Europe Goes to Work: Rising Employment Rates in the European Union
     CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
103. Recession Looms for the U.S. Economy in 2007
     CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (2)
104. The Impact of Undercounting in the Current Population Survey
     CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
105. The Origins of the Doughnut Hole: Excess Profits on Prescription Drugs
     CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
106. The Savings from an Efficient Medicare Drug Plan
     CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
107. The Scorecard on Development: 25 Years of Diminished Progress
     Working Papers, United Nations, Department of Economics and Social Affairs View citations (10)
     Also in Working Papers, United Nations, Department of Economics and Social Affairs (2006) View citations (8)
     CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) (2005) View citations (2)
108. Universal Voluntary Accounts: A Step Towards Fixing the Retirement System
     CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (4)
109. Waste in the Medicare Drug Benefit: Why the Doughnut Hole is Unnecessary
     CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)

2005

110. Are Copyrights a Textbook Scam? Alternatives for Financing Textbook Production in the 21st Century
     CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
111. Bigger Than the Social Security Crisis: Wasteful Spending on Prescription Drugs
     CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
112. Bird Flu Fears: Is There a Better Way to Develop Drugs?
     CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
113. Correcting Employment Rates in the 2000 Decennial Census Using Information from the CPS-Census 2000
     CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
114. Defaulting on the Social Security Trust Fund: What It Would Mean and How It Would Be Done
     CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
115. Empty Promise: The Benefit to African American Men of Private Accounts Under President Bush's Social Security Plan
     CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
116. Gender Bias in the Current Economic Recovery? Declining Employment Rates for Women in the 21st Century
     CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (10)
117. Growing the Social Security Crisis: The Social Security Administration's Poverty Rate Projections
     CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
118. Is There a Housing Bubble?
     CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
119. Opening Doors and Smashing Windows: Alternative Measures for Funding Software Development
     CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
120. Short-Term Gain for Long-Term Pain: The Real Story of Rubinomics
     CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
121. Social Security Rates of Return with "Progressive Indexation"
     CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
122. Taxing Exxon's Windfall From Hurricane Katrina
     CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
123. The Burden of Social Security Taxes and the Burden of Excessive Health Care Costs
     CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)
124. The Burden of Social Security Taxes and the Burden of Wage Inequality
     CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
     Also in CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) (2005) View citations (1)
125. The Housing Bubble Fact Sheet
     CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (19)
126. The Regressive Impact of the Progressive Indexation of Social Security Benefits
     CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
127. Things That Will Happen Before Social Security Faces a Shortfall
     CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
128. Who's Dreaming? Homeownership Among Low-Income Families
     CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
129. Will a Bursting Bubble Trouble Bernanke? The Evidence for a Housing Bubble
     CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (1)

2003

130. Labor Market Institutions and Unemployment: A Critical Assessment of the Cross-Country Evidence
     Economics Series Working Papers, University of Oxford, Department of Economics View citations (137)

2002

131. Securities Transaction Taxes for U.S. Financial Markets
     Working Papers, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts at Amherst View citations (10)
     See also Journal Article Securities Transaction Taxes for U.S. Financial Markets, Eastern Economic Journal, Eastern Economic Association (2003) View citations (29) (2003)

Journal Articles

2005

1. Smoothing the waves of pension funding: Could changes in funding rules help avoid cyclical under‐funding?
   Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 2005, 8, (2), 131-151 View citations (5)

2003

2. A Free Market Solution to Prescription Drug Crises
   Challenge, 2003, 46, (5), 76-89
3. Securities Transaction Taxes for U.S. Financial Markets
   Eastern Economic Journal, 2003, 29, (4), 527-558 View citations (29)
   See also Working Paper Securities Transaction Taxes for U.S. Financial Markets, Working Papers (2002) View citations (10) (2002)
4. The Environmental Kuznets Curve: Comments
   Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2003, 17, (1), 226-227 View citations (3)

2002

5. Is the New Economy Wearing Out?
   Challenge, 2002, 45, (1), 117-121 View citations (3)
6. Restates the 1990s - Incorrectly?
   Challenge, 2002, 45, (4), 122-128
7. The Run-up in Home Prices: A Bubble
   Challenge, 2002, 45, (6), 93-119 View citations (26)

2001

8. Why Do We Avoid Financial-Transactions Taxes?
   Challenge, 2001, 44, (3), 90-96 View citations (1)

Books

2011

1. The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive
   CEPR Books, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (10)

2006

2. The Conservative Nanny State
   CEPR Books, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) View citations (5)