Research Articles by Laurence J. Kotlikoff


Title Author(s) Publication Date
The Intergenerational Conflict – Après le Deluge Laurence J. Kotlikoff Les Rencontres Économiques d’Aix‐en‐Provence 2009-07-04
Back to Basics Laurence J. Kotlikoff and John Goodman The New Republic 2009-05-14
A Banking System We Can Trust Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Edward Leamer Forbes.Com 2009-04-23
Biosimilars, Data Exclusivity, and the Incentives for Innovation: Response to Grabowski Laurence J. Kotlikoff BU Working Paper 2009-03-17
Limited Purpose Banking Laurence J. Kotlikoff The Financial Times 2009-01-27
The True Cost of Social Security Alexander Blocker, Stephen A. Ross, and Laurence J. Kotlikoff BU Working Paper 2008-11-24
Economic War Calls for Full Plan of Battle Laurence J. Kotlikoff Bloomberg.com 2008-11-13
Why Aren't Developed Countries Saving Loretti I. Dobrescu, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Alberto F. Motta BU Working Paper 2008-11-01
Dynamic Globalization and Its Potentially Alarming Prospects for Low-Wage Workers Hans Fehr, Sabine Jokisch, and Laurence J. Kotlikoff BU Working Paper 2008-11-01
Recapitalizing the Banks is not Enough Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Perry Mehrling, and Alistair Milne BU Working Paper 2008-10-26
Stimulating Innovation in the Biologics Industry Laurence J. Kotlikoff Teva USA Government Affairs 2008-09-01
Optimal Life-Cycle Investing with Flexible Labor Supply Francisco J. Gomes, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Luis M. Viceira The American Economic Review 2008-05-01
Optimal Life-Cycle Investing, AER 2008.pdf Francisco J. Gomes, Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Luis M. Viceira American Economic Review 2008-05-01
The FairTax and Middle Americans Laurence J. Kotlikoff BU Working Paper 2008-01-20
Why the FairTax Will Work Laurence J. Kotlikoff BU Working Paper 2008-01-09
To Roth or Not--That is the Question Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Ben Marx, and David Rapson NBER Working Paper 2008-01-01
Optimal Life-Cycle Investing with Flexible Labor Supply Francisco J. Gomes, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Luis M. Viceira Working Paper 2007-12-14
Economics' Approach to Financial Planning Laurence J. Kotlikoff Journal of Financial Planning 2007-11-08
On the General Relativity of Fiscal Language Jerry Green and Laurence J. Kotikoff BU Working Paper 2007-06-01
Simulating the Dynamic Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Effects of the Fairtax Sabine Jokisch and Laurence J. Kotlikoff BU Working Paper 2007-04-01
Is the U.S. Bankrupt? Laurence J. Kotlikoff Federal Credit and Insurance Programs 2007-03-01
Averting America's Bankruptcy with a New New Deal Laurence J. Kotlikoff The Economists' Voice 2007-03-01
Will China Eat Our Lunch or Take Us to Dinner? Laurence J. Kotlikoff BU Working Paper 2007-03-01
Taxing Sales under the FairTax--What Rate Works Laurence J. Kotlikoff BU Working Paper 2006-10-06
Americans' Dependency on Social Security Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Ben Marx, and Pietro Rizza BU Working Paper 2006-10-01
Comparing Average and Marginal Tax Rates under the FairTax and the Current Federal Income Tax Laurence J. Kotlikoff and David Rapson BU Working Paper 2006-10-01
Saving and Life Insurance Holdings at Boston University Laurence J. Kotlikoff National Institute Economic Review 2006-10-01
Does It Pay, at the Margin, to Work and Save? Laurence J. Kotlikoff and David Rapson NBER Working Paper Series 2006-08-01
The Excess Burden of Government Indecision Francisco J. Gomes, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Luis M. Viceira NBER Working Paper Series 2006-07-24
Health Care Spending: What the Future Will Look Like Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Christian Hagist National Center for Policy Analysis 2006-05-01
Is Conventional Financial Planning Good for Your Financial Health? Laurence J. Kotlikoff BU Working Paper 2006-01-01
Paul Samuelson's Amazing Intergenerational Transfer Laurence J. Kotlikoff Samuelsonian Economics and the Twenty-First Century 2006-01-01
Who's Going Broke? Comparing Healthcare Costs in Ten OECD Countries Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Christian Hagist BU Working Paper 2005-12-01
Grading the President's Tax Reform Panel Laurence J. Kotlikoff BU Working Paper 2005-11-12
Deficit Delusion Laurence J. Kotlikoff The Public Interest 2004-08-01
On the Broadband Mess Laurence J. Kotlikoff AT&T Research 2003-01-01
Natural Monopoly and the Definition of “Impairment" Laurence J. Kotlikoff AT&T Research 2003-01-01
Does It Pay to Work? Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Alexander Sluchynsky BU Working Paper 2002-11-01
The Role of Competition in Stimulating Telecom Investment Laurence J. Kotlikoff BU Working Paper 2002-10-01
The Adequacy of Life Insurance Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff BU Working Paper 2002-06-01
Intertemporal State Budgeting Bruce Baker, Daniel Besendorfer, Laurence J. Kotlikoff BU Working Paper 2002-06-01
Saving and Life Insurance Holdings at Boston University B. Douglas Bernheim, Solange Berstein, Jagadeesh Gokhale, and Laurence J. Kotlikoff BU Working Paper 2002-05-01
Simulating the Transmission of Wealth Inequality Laurence J. Kotlikoff The American Economic Review 2002-05-01
Who Gets Paid to Save? Laurence J. Kotlikoff BU Working Paper 2001-09-01
Does Saving in a 401(k) Raise Your Lifetime Taxes? Laurence J. Kotlikoff BU Working Paper 2001-05-01
Finding a Way Out of America's Demographic Dilemma Laurence J. Kotlikoff BU Working Paper 2001-04-01
The Mismatch Between Life Insurance Holdings and Financial Vulnerabilties B. Douglas Bernheim, Jagadeesh Gokhale, Lorenzo Forni, and Laurence J. Kotlikoff The American Economic Review, March 2003 2001-01-01
Simulating the Transmission of Wealth Inequality Laurence J. Kotlikoff The Journal of Public Economics 2001-01-01
Simulating Fundamental Tax Reform in the U.S. Laurence J. Kotlikoff American Economic Review 2001-01-01
Generational Policy Laurence J. Kotlikoff The Handbook of Public Economics, Second Edition 2001-01-01
Comparing the Economic and Conventional Approaches to Financial Planning Laurence J. Kotlikoff MIT Press 2001-01-01
Can People Compute? An Experimental Test of the Life Cycle Consumption Model Laurence J. Kotlikoff MIT Press 2001-01-01
The Baby Boomers' Mega-Inheritance--Myth or Reality? Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Jagadeesh Gokhale Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Economic Commentary 2000-10-01
The Degeneration of EMU Niall Ferguson and Laurence J. Kotlikoff Foreign Affairs 2000-03-01
The Right and Wrong Ways to Reform Pensions in Russia Laurence J. Kotlikoff BU Working Paper 2000-01-01
Distributional Effects in a General Equilibrium Analysis of Social Security Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Kent Smetters, and Jan Walliser The Distributional Effects of Social Security Reform, (Martin Feldstein, ed.), University of Chicago Press, 2000. 2000-01-01
Social Security's Treatment of Postwar Americans -- How Bad Can it Get Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Jagadeesh Gokhale The Distributional Effects of Social Security Reform (Martin Feldstein, ed.) University of Chicago Press, 2000. 2000-01-01
The World Bank's Approach and the Right Approach to Pension Reform Laurence J. Kotlikoff BU Working Paper 1999-08-01
Privatizing Social Security the Right Way Laurence J. Kotlikoff Testimony to the Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives 1998-06-03
Parental Altruism and Inter Vivos Transfers: Theory and Evidence Joseph G. Altonji, Fumio Hyashi, and Laurence J. Kotlikoff Journal of Political Economy 105.6 (1997) 1997-01-01
Risk-Sharing Between and Within Families Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Joseph Altonji and Fumio Hayashi Econometrica 1996-03-01
Generational Accounting in General Equilibrium Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Hans Fehrs FinancArchiv 1996-01-01
Understanding the Postwar Decline in U.S. Savings: a Cohort Analysis Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Jagadeesh Gokhale and John Sabelhaus The Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1996-01-01
Generational Accounting: A Meaningful Way to Assess Generational Policy Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Alan Auerbach and Jagadeesh Gokhale The Journal of Economic Perspectives 1994-12-01
Intergenerational Altruism and the Effectiveness of Fiscal Policy: New Tests Based on Cohort Data Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Andy Abel Savings and Bequests 1994-01-01
Some Inefficiency Implications of Generational Politics and Exchange Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Robert W. Rosenthal Economics and Politics 1993-01-01
From Deficit Delusion to the Fiscal Balance Rule - Looking for a Sensible Way to Measure Fiscal Policy Laurence J. Kotlikoff The Journal of Economics 1993-01-01
Estimating the Age-Productivity Profile Using Lifetime Earnings Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Jagadeesh Gokhale The Quarterly Journal of Economics 1992-11-01
Is the Extended Family Altruistically Linked? Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Joe Altonji and Fumio Hayashi The American Economic Review 1992-01-01
How Regional Differences in Taxes and Public Goods Distort Life Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Bernd Raffelheuschen NBER Working Paper 1991-01-01
A Strategic Altruism Model in Which Ricardian Equivalence Does Not Hold Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Assaf Razin and Robert Rosenthal The Economic Journal 1990-12-01
The Incidence and Efficiency Costs of Corporate Taxation when Corporate and Non-Corporate Firms Produce the Same Goods Jane G. Gravelle and Laurence J. Kotlikoff Journal of Political Economy 1989-01-01
Social Contracts as Assets: A Possible Solution to the Time Consistency Problem Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Thorsten Persson and Lars Svensson The American Economic Review 1988-09-01
Consumption, Computation Mistakes, and Fiscal Policy Laurence J. Kotlikoff with William Samuelson American Economic Review 1988-05-01
Looking for the News in the Noise Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Ariel Pakes Annales d'Economie et de Statistique 1988-01-01
The AK OLG Model Its Past, Present and Future Laurence J. Kotlikoff Dynamic Fiscal Policy 1987-01-01
Tax Incidence Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Lawerence H. Summers Handbook of Public Economics 1987-01-01
The Effect of Annuity Insurance on Savings and Inequality Laurence J. Kotlikoff with John Shoven and Avia Spivak Journal of Labor Economics 1986-01-01
Public Debt and U.S. Saving: A New Test of the Neutrality Hypothesis Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Michael Boskin Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy 1985-09-01
Taxation and Savings Neoclassical Perspective Laurence J. Kotlikoff Journal of Economic Literature 1984-01-01
Investment Incentives Savings Versus: The Size of the Bang for the Buck and the Potential Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Alan Auerbach The Economic Consequences of Government Deficits, Laurence H. Meyer, ed. 1983-01-01
The Adequacy of Savings Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Avia Spivak and Laurence H. Summers The American Economic Review 1982-01-01
The Family as an Incomplete Annuities Market Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Avia Spivak Journal of Political Economy 1981-01-01
The Role of Intergeneration Transfers in Aggregate Capital Accumulation Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Lawrence H. Summers Journal of Political Economy 1981-01-01
The Manumission of Slaves in New Orleans, 1827-1846 Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Anton J. Rupert Southern Studies 1980-01-01
Social Security and Equilibrium Capital Intensity Laurence J. Kotlikoff The Quarterly Journal of Economics 1979-05-01
Testing the Theory of Social Security and Life Cycle Accumulation Laurence J. Kotlikoff The American Economic Review 1979-01-01
The Structure of Slave Prices in New Orleans Laurence J. Kotlikoff Economic Inquiry 1979-01-01
The Incidence Of a Tax on Pure Rent A New Reason for an Old Answer Guillermo Calvo, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Carlos Alfredo Rodriguez Journal of Political Economy 1979-01-01
The Old South's Stake in the Inter-Regional Movement of Slaves, 1850-1860 Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Sebastian Pinera The Journal of Economic History 1977-06-01