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Can today's and tomorrow's world uniformly gain from carbon taxation?

Publication:

NBER Working Paper

Author(s):

Laurence Kotlikoff, Felix Kubler, Andrey Polbin, and Simon Scheidegger

The US Capital Glut and Other Myths

Publication:

larrykotlikoff.substack.com

Author(s):

Laurence Kotlikoff and Alan Auerbach

Net National Saving and Investment Rates and Real Returns on U.S. National Wealth

Publication:

Worksheet produced by Alan Auerbach and Laurence Kotlikoff

Author(s):

Laurence Kotlikoff and Alan Auerbach

The Fast Track to Carbon Taxation

Publication:

Peace Not Pollution, Chapter 3

Author(s):

Felix Kubler, Andrey Polbin, and Simon Scheidegger

The Marginal Net Taxation of Americans’ Labor Supply

Publication:

The Marginal Net Taxation of Americans’ Labor Supply

Author(s):

David Altig, Alan Auerbach, Laurence Kotlikoff, Elias Ilin, and Victor Ye

When Interest Rates Go Low, Should Public Debt Go High?

Publication:

forthcoming, American Economic Journal: Macro

Author(s):

Johannes Brumm, Xiangyu Feng, Laurence Kotlikoff, and Felix Kubler

The U.S. Fiscal Gap, 2022

Publication:

Kotlikoff.net

Author(s):

Laurence Kotlikoff

How Much Lifetime Social Security Benefits Are Americans Leaving on the Table?

Publication:

NBER Journal Tax Policy and the Economy

Author(s):

David Altig and Victor Yifan Ye

The Future of Global Economic Power

Publication:

Author(s):

Seth G. Benzell, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Maria Kazakova, Guillermo Lagarda , Kristina Nesterova, Victor Yifan, Andrey Zubarev

Global Issues, Historical

"Does Prediction Machines" Predict Our AI Future? A Review

Publication:

Journal of Economic Literature

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Studying Generational Risk in a Large-Scale Life-Cycle Model

Publication:

Boston University mimeo

Author(s):

Jasmina Hasanhodzic, Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Is our fiscal system discouraging marriage? A new look at the marriage tax

Publication:

NBER Working Paper

Author(s):

Elias Ilin, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Melinda Pitts

Are Deficits Free? (Previous title: Deficit Follies)

Publication:

NBER Working Paper

Author(s):

Johannes Brumm, Xiangyu Feng, Laurence Kotlikoff, and Felix Kubler

Intergenerational Accounting

U.S. Inequality and Fiscal Progressivity

Publication:

Draft, Comments Welcome

Author(s):

Alan J. Auerbach, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Darryl Koehler

Simulating Endogenous Global Automation

Publication:

NBER Working Paper

Author(s):

Seth Benzell, Laurence Kotlikoff, Guillermo Lagarde, and Yifan Ye

Banking Crisis

Banks As Potentially Crooked Secret-Keepers

Publication:

Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking

Author(s):

Timothy Jackson and Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Pareto-Improving Carbon-Risk Taxation

Publication:

Economic Policy

Author(s):

Laurence Kotlikoff, Felix Kubler, Andrey Polbin, and Simon Scheidegger

Global Issues

Making Carbon Taxation a Generational Win Win

Publication:

The International Economic Review

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Andrey Polbin, Felix Kubler, Simon Scheidegger, and Jeffrey Sachs

Georgians' Stake in President-Elect Biden's Tax and Social Security Reforms

Publication:

memo

Author(s):

Laurence Kotlikoff and Victor Yifan Ye

Healthcare

“Better Care Plan”: A Public Option Choice

Publication:

Health Affairs

Author(s):

George C. Halvorson Stephen M. Shortell Laurence Kotlikoff Elizabeth Mitchell Richard M. Scheffler John Toussaint Peter A. Wadsworth Gail R. Wilensky

Simulating Cash Flow Benefit Taxation

Publication:

mimeo, Boston University

Author(s):

Seth Benzell, Laurence Kotlikoff, Guillermo Lagarde, and Victor Ye

Leaping the Divide -- Sharing the Cost of Carbon Mitigation with Our Children

Publication:

The Milken Review

Author(s):

Laurence Kotlikoff

Leveraging Posterity's Prosperity

Publication:

American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, forthcoming

Author(s):

Johannes Brumm, Laurence Kotlikoff, and Felix Kubler

Spreadsheet to Calculate U.S. Net National Saving and Domestic Investment Rates plus Real Return on National Wealth

Publication:

Calculations by Laurence Kotlikoff

Author(s):

Laurence Kotlikoff

The Big Con -- Reassessing the "Great" Recession and Its "Fix"

Publication:

The Milken Institute

Author(s):

Laurence Kotlikoff

US Economy

Robots Are Us: Some Economics of Human Replacement (revision)

Publication:

NBER working paper

Author(s):

Seth G. Benzell, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Guillermo LaGarda, and Jeffrey D. Sachs

Financial Planning

The Fiscal Analyzer Online Documentation

Publication:

Boston University Mimeo

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Taxes

Did the 2017 Tax Reform Discriminate against Blue State Voters?

Publication:

The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Author(s):

David Altig, Alan Auerbach, Patrick Higgins, Darryl Koehler, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Michael Leisica, Ellyn Terry, Victor Ye

Taxes

Simulating U.S. Business Cash Flow Taxation in a 17-Region Global Model

Publication:

Revision of NBER working paper

Author(s):

Seth Benzell, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Guillermo Lagarda, and Yifan Ye

Banking Crisis

The Big Con -- Reassessing the "Great" Recession and Its "Fix"

Publication:

NBER Working Paper 25213 http://www.nber.org/papers/w25213

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Valuing Government Obligations When Markets Are Incomplete

Publication:

NBER WP 24092, forthcoming Journal of Money, Banking, and Credit, 2019

Author(s):

Jasmina Hasanhodzic and Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Taxes

The New Tax Bill -- Winners and Losers

Publication:

Boston University, Department of Economics

Author(s):

Alan Auerbach, Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Darryl Koehler

Intergenerational Accounting

Generational Risk – Is It a Big Deal?: Simulating an 80-Period OLG Model with Aggregate Shocks

Publication:

mimeo

Author(s):

Jasmina Hasanhodzic and Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Taxes

U.S. Tax Reform and Labor Supply Incentives of the Elderly

Publication:

mimeo

Author(s):

Alan Auerbach, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Darryl Koehler

Taxes

Assessing the House Republican Tax Reform Plan

Publication:

Kotlikoff.net

Author(s):

Alan Auerbach, Laurence Kotlikoff and Darryl Koehler

US Economy

Will the Paris Accord Accelerate Climate Change

Publication:

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff (with Andrey Polbin and Andrey Zubarew)

Taxes

Is Uncle Sam Inducing the Elderly to Retire?

Publication:

Tax Policy and the Economy, forthcoming 2017

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff (with Alan Auerbach, Darryl Koehler, and Manni Yu)

Life Cycle Investing

Rethinking Portfolio Analysis

Publication:

Mackenzie Investments

Author(s):

Alain Bergeron, MSc, CFA Laurence Kotlikoff, PhD, William Fairfield Warren Professor of Economics at Boston University Todd Mattina, PhD Allan Seychuk, MA, CFA

Intergenerational Accounting

The Fiscal Gap -- An Estimate for Russia

Publication:

Russian Journal of Economics

Author(s):

Evgeny Goryunov, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Sergey Sinelnikov-Murylev

Global Issues

Russia's Challenging Economic Transistion

Publication:

NBER working paper

Author(s):

Seth G. Benzell, Eugene Goryunov, Maria Kazakova, Guillermo Lagarda, Kristina Nesterova, Laurence J. Kotlikofff, and Andrey Zubarev

Intergenerational Accounting

America’s Fiscal Insolvency and Its Generational Consequences

Publication:

Testimony to the Senate Budget Committee

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

US Economy

Simulating the Elimination of the U.S. Corporate Income Tax

Publication:

NBER Working Paper

Author(s):

Hans Fehr, Sabine Jokisch, Ashwin Kambhampati and Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Global Issues

The World’s Interconnected Demographic and Fiscal Transition

Publication:

Journal of the Economics of Aging

Author(s):

Sabine Jokisch, Hans Fehr and Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Global Issues

Russia's Fiscal Gap

Publication:

NBER Working Paper

Author(s):

Eugene Goryunov, Maria Kazakova, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Arseny Mamedov, Kristina Nesterova, Vladimir Nazarov, Elena Grishina, Pavel Trunin and Alexey Shpenev

Global Issues

Why Aren't Developed Countries Saving?

Publication:

European Economic Review

Author(s):

Loretti I. Dobrescu, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Alberto F. Motta

Intergenerational Accounting, Life Cycle Investing

Smart Machines and Long-Term Misery

Publication:

NBER Working Paper

Author(s):

Jeffrey D. Sachs and Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Banking Crisis, US Economy

Limited-Purpose Banking -- Moving from "Trust Me" to "Show Me" Banking

Publication:

American Economic Review

Author(s):

Christophe Chamley, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Herakles Polemarchakis

Uncategorized

Game Over: Simulating Unsustainable Fiscal Policy

Publication:

NBER Working Paper

Author(s):

Richard W. Evans, Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Kerk L. Phillips

Uncategorized

Generational Policy and Aging in Closed and Open Dynamic General Equilibrium Models

Publication:

The Handbook of Computational General Equilibrium Modeling

Author(s):

Hans Fehr, Sabine Jokisch, Manuel Kallweit, Fabian Kindermann and Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Taxes

What Does the Corporate Income Tax Tax? A Simple Model Without Capital

Publication:

NBER Working Paper

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Jianjun Miao

US Economy

Marketing Social Security’s Open Group Liability to Market

Publication:

www.kotlikoff.net

Author(s):

Paul Koehler and Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Global Issues

Who’s going broke? Comparing growth in Public Healthcare in ten OECD countries

Publication:

Hacienda Pública Española / Revista de Economía Pública

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Christian Hagist

Global Issues, Intergenerational Accounting

The Intergenerational Conflict – Après le Deluge

Publication:

Les Rencontres Économiques d’Aix‐en‐Provence

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Limited Purpose Banking, US Economy

Back to Basics

Publication:

The New Republic

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff and John Goodman

Biosimilars

Biosimilars, Data Exclusivity, and the Incentives for Innovation: Response to Grabowski

Publication:

BU Working Paper

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Global Issues

Fixing Healthcare Before It Fixes Us

Publication:

Urologic Clinics of North America

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Banking Crisis, Limited Purpose Banking

Interview on Limited Purpose Banking

Publication:

Vimeo

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Limited Purpose Banking

Limited Purpose Banking

Publication:

The Financial Times

Author(s):

Christophe Chamley, Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Global Issues

Dynamic Globalization and Its Potentially Alarming Prospects for Low-Wage Workers

Publication:

NBER Working Paper

Author(s):

Hans Fehr, Sabine Jokisch, and Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Banking Crisis

Economic War Calls for Full Plan of Battle

Publication:

Bloomberg.com

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

US Economy

Recapitalizing the Banks is not Enough

Publication:

BU Working Paper

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Perry Mehrling, and Alistair Milne

Social Security

The True Cost of Social Security

Publication:

NBER Working Paper, forthcoming, Tax Policy and the Economy, 2019

Author(s):

Alexander Blocker, Stephen A. Ross, and Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Financial Planning, Life Cycle Investing

Economics’ Approach to Financial Planning

Publication:

Journal of Financial Planning

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Global Issues

Fertility, Mortality and the Developed World’s Demographic Transition

Publication:

Journal of Policy Modeling

Author(s):

Hans Fehr, Sabine Jokisch, Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Taxes

The FairTax and Middle Americans

Publication:

BU Working Paper

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Fair Tax

Why the Fair Tax Will Work – Bartlett’s Unfair Attack on the FairTax

Publication:

BU Working Paper

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Financial Planning

To Roth or Not-- That is the Question

Publication:

NBER Working Paper

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Ben Marx, and David Rapson

Taxes

Does It Pay, at the Margin, to Work and Save? Measuring Effective Marginal Taxes on Americans' Labor Supply and Saving

Publication:

Tax Policy and the Economy, NBER volume, MIT Press

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff, David Rapson

Deficit, Taxes

On the General Relativity of Fiscal Language

Publication:

Institutional Foundations of Public Finance, Auerbach, Shaviro eds, Harvard University Press, 2008

Author(s):

Jerry Green and Laurence J. Kotikoff

Financial Planning, Life Cycle Investing

Optimal Life-Cycle Investing with Flexible Labor Supply: A Welfare Analysis of Life-Cycle Funds

Publication:

Tax Policy and the Economy, NBER

Author(s):

Francisco J. Gomes, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Luis M. Viceira

Life Cycle Investing

Pension Reform as the Triumph of Form over Substance

Publication:

Economists’ Voice

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Fair Tax

Simulating the Dynamic Macroeconomic Effects of the Fair Tax

Publication:

The National Tax Journal

Author(s):

Sabine Jokisch, Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Taxes

Simulating the Dynamic Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Effects of the Fairtax

Publication:

BU Working Paper

Author(s):

Sabine Jokisch and Laurence J. Kotlikoff

US Economy

Averting America's Bankruptcy with a New New Deal

Publication:

The Economists' Voice

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

US Economy

Is the US Bankrupt?

Publication:

Federal Credit and Insurance Programs

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Global Issues

Will China Eat Our Lunch or Take Us to Dinner?

Publication:

NBER Book Fiscal Policy and Management in East Asia, NBER-EASE

Author(s):

Hans Fehr, Sabine Jokisch, Laurence J. Kotlikoff

US Economy

The Excess Burden of Government Indecision

Publication:

NBER Working Paper

Author(s):

Francisco J. Gomes, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Luis M. Viceira

US Economy

Mitigating America's Demographic Dilemma by Pre-funding Social Security

Publication:

The Journal of Monetary Economics

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Kent Smetters, Jan Walliser

Fair Tax

Taxing Sales Under the FairTax: What Rate Works?

Publication:

Tax Notes

Author(s):

Paul Bachman, Jonathan Haughton,Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Alfonso Sanchez-Penalver, David G. Tuerck

Social Security

Americans' Dependency on Social Security

Publication:

NBER Working Paper

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Ben Marx, and Pietro Rizza

Financial Planning, Life Insurance

Saving and Life Insurance Holdings at Boston University

Publication:

National Institute Economic Review

Author(s):

B. Douglas Bernheim, Solange Berstein, Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Financial Planning

Big Ideas: Pay Now or Pay Later

Publication:

The Milken Review

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Financial Planning, Life Cycle Investing, Life Insurance

Is Conventional Financial Planning Good for Your Financial Health?

Publication:

BU Working Paper

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Intergenerational Accounting

Paul Samuleson's Amazing Intergenerational Transfer

Publication:

Samuelsonian Economics and the Twenty-First Century

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Taxes

Comparing Average and Marginal Tax Rates under the FairTax and the Current System of Federal Taxation

Publication:

NBER Working Paper

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff and David Rapson

Taxes

Grading the President’s Tax Reform Panel’s Plan

Publication:

BU Working Paper

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Deficit, US Economy

Deficit Delusion

Publication:

The Public Interest

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Global Issues

The Role of Immigration in Dealing with the Developed World's Demographic Transition

Publication:

FinancArchiv

Author(s):

Hans Fehr, Sabine Jokisch, Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Life Insurance

Are Life Insurance Holdings Related to Financial Vulnerabilities?

Publication:

Economic Inquiry

Author(s):

B. Douglas Bernheim, Kathrine Grace Carman, Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Financial Planning

Who Gets Paid to Save?

Publication:

NBER Volume, MIT Press

Author(s):

Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Life Insurance

The Mismatch Between Life Insurance Holdings and Financial Vulnerabilties

Publication:

The American Economic Review

Author(s):

B. Douglas Bernheim, Jagadeesh Gokhale, Lorenzo Forni, and Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Telecommunications, US Economy

Natural Monopoly and the Definition of “Impairment

Publication:

AT&T Research

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Telecommunications, US Economy

On the Broadband Mess

Publication:

AT&T Research

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Life Cycle Investing

Does It Pay to Work?

Publication:

BU Working Paper

Author(s):

Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Alexander Sluchynsky

US Economy

Intertemporal State Budgeting

Publication:

BU Working Paper

Author(s):

Bruce Baker, Daniel Besendorfer, Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Life Insurance

The Adequacy of Life Insurance

Publication:

BU Working Paper

Author(s):

Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Intergenerational Accounting

Simulating the Transmission of Wealth Inequality

Publication:

The American Economic Review

Author(s):

Jagdeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Taxes

Does Saving in a 401(k) Raise Your Lifetime Taxes?

Publication:

BU Working Paper

Author(s):

Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Todd Neumann

Generational Policy

Publication:

National Bureau of Economic Research

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Life Cycle Investing

Can People Compute? An Experimental Test of the Life Cycle Consumption Model

Publication:

MIT Press

Author(s):

Stephen Johnson, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, William Samuelson

Financial Planning

Comparing the Economic and Conventional Approaches to Financial Planning

Publication:

MIT Press

Author(s):

Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Mark Warshawsky

Taxes

Simulating Fundamental Tax Reform in the U.S.

Publication:

American Economic Review

Author(s):

David Altig, Alan Auerbach, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Kent Smetters, Jan Walliser

Intergenerational Accounting

Simulating the Transmission of Wealth Inequality via Bequests

Publication:

The Journal of Public Economics

Author(s):

Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, James Sefton, Martin Weale

Global Issues

Generational Accounting in the UK

Publication:

The Economic Journal

Author(s):

Robert Cardarelli, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, James Sefton

Intergenerational Accounting

The Baby Boomers' Mega-Inheritance--Myth or Reality?

Publication:

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Economic Commentary

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Jagadeesh Gokhale

Financial Planning

How Much Should Americans Be Saving for Retirement?

Publication:

American Economic Review

Author(s):

B. Douglas Bernheim, Lorenzo Forni, Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff,

Uncategorized

The Degeneration of the EMU

Publication:

Foreign Affairs

Author(s):

Niall Ferguson and Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Intergenerational Accounting, Social Security

Distributional Effects in a General Equilibrium Analysis of Social Security

Publication:

The Distributional Effects of Social Security Reform, (Martin Feldstein, ed.), University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Kent Smetters, and Jan Walliser

Social Security

Social Security's Treatment of Postwar Americans -- How Bad Can it Get

Publication:

The Distributional Effects of Social Security Reform (Martin Feldstein, ed.) University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Jagadeesh Gokhale

Social Security

Privatizing Social Security in the US: Comparing the Options

Publication:

Review of Economic Dynamics

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Kent A. Smetters, Jan Walliser

Global Issues

Generational Accounting Around the Globe

Publication:

American Economic Review

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Bernd Raffelheuschen

Social Security

Privatizing Social Security the Right Way

Publication:

Testimony to the Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Social Security

Social Security: Privatization and Progressivity

Publication:

American Economic Review

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Kent Smetters, Jan Walliser

Intergenerational Accounting, Social Security

The Personal Security System: A Framework for Reforming Social Security

Publication:

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Taxes

Assessing Fundamental Tax Reform

Publication:

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Review

Author(s):

David Altig, Alan J. Auerbach,Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Kent A. Smetters, and Jan Walliser

Intergenerational Accounting

Parental Altruism and Inter Vivos Transfers: Theory and Evidence

Publication:

Journal of Political Economy 105.6 (1997)

Author(s):

Joseph G. Altonji, Fumio Hyashi, and Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Intergenerational Accounting

Reply to Diamond's and Cutler's Reviews of Generational Accounting

Publication:

The National Tax Journal

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Intergenerational Accounting

Generational Accounting in New Zealand: Is There Generational Balance?

Publication:

International Tax and Public Finance

Author(s):

Alan J. Auerbach, Bruce Baker, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Jan Walliser

Intergenerational Accounting

Risk-Sharing Between and Within Families

Publication:

Econometrica

Author(s):

Fumio Hayashi, Joseph Altonji, and Laurence Kotlikoff

Intergenerational Accounting

Restoring Generational Balance in Canada

Publication:

Choices, IRPP

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Philip Oreopoulos

Uncategorized

Understanding the Postwar Decline in U.S. Savings: a Cohort Analysis

Publication:

The Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Jagadeesh Gokhale and John Sabelhaus

Intergenerational Accounting

Generational Accounting in General Equilibrium

Publication:

FinancArchiv

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Hans Fehrs

Social Security

Privatizing Social Security: How It Works and Why It Matters

Publication:

Tax Policy and the Economy

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Taxes

Corporate Taxation and the Efficiency Gains of the 1986 Tax Reform Act

Publication:

Economic Theory

Author(s):

Jane Gravelle, Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Intergenerational Accounting

Restoring Generational Balance to US Fiscal Policy: What Will It Take?

Publication:

Economic Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Author(s):

Alan Auerbach, Jagadesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Uncategorized

The 1995 Budget and Health Care Reform: A Generational Perspective

Publication:

Economic Review Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Author(s):

Alan J. Auerbach, Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Intergenerational Accounting

Generational Accounting: A Meaningful Way to Assess Generational Policy

Publication:

The Journal of Economic Perspectives

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Alan Auerbach and Jagadeesh Gokhale

Intergenerational Accounting

Passing the Generational Buck

Publication:

The Public Interest

Author(s):

Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Financial Planning

A Critical Review of Social Insurance Analysis by Multilateral Lending Institutions

Publication:

Revista de Analisis Economico

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Intergenerational Accounting

Intergenerational Altruism and the Effectiveness of Fiscal Policy: New Tests Based on Cohort Data

Publication:

Savings and Bequests

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Andy Abel

Uncategorized

Corporate Tax Incidence and Inefficiency when Corporate and Noncorporate Goods are Close Substitutes

Publication:

Economic Inquiry

Author(s):

Jane Gravelle, Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Intergenerational Accounting

Some Inefficiency Implications of Generational Politics and Exchange

Publication:

Economics and Politics

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Robert W. Rosenthal

Intergenerational Accounting, Taxes

Generational Accounts and Lifetime Tax Rates, 1900-1991

Publication:

Economic Review Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Author(s):

Alan J. Auerbach, Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Deficit

From Deficit Delusion to the Fiscal Balance Rule - Looking for a Sensible Way to Measure Fiscal Policy

Publication:

The Journal of Economics

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Uncategorized

Is the Extended Family Altruistically Linked?

Publication:

The American Economic Review

Author(s):

Joe Altonji, Fumio Hayashi, and Laurence Kotlikoff

Uncategorized

Estimating a Firm's Age-Productivity Profile using the Present Value of Workers' Earnings

Publication:

The Quarterly Journal of Economics

Author(s):

Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Life Cycle Investing

Estimating the Age-Productivity Profile Using Lifetime Earnings

Publication:

The Quarterly Journal of Economics

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Jagadeesh Gokhale

Intergenerational Accounting

Generational Accounting - A New Approach to Understanding the Effects of Fiscal Policy on Saving

Publication:

Scandinavian Journal of Economics

Author(s):

Alan J. Auerbach, Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Intergenerational Accounting, Social Security

Social Security and Medicare Policy from the Perspective of Generational Accounting

Publication:

Tax Policy and the Economy

Author(s):

Alan J. Auerbach, Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff

US Economy

US Demographics and Saving: Predictions of Three Saving Models

Publication:

Carnegie - Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy

Author(s):

Alan J. Auerbach, Jinyong Cai, Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Deficit, Intergenerational Accounting

Generational Accounts: A Meaningful Alternative to Deficit Accounting

Publication:

Tax Policy and the Economy

Author(s):

Alan J. Auerbach, Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Taxes

How Regional Differences in Taxes and Public Goods Distort Life

Publication:

NBER Working Paper

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Bernd Raffelheuschen

Life Insurance

The Adequacy of Life Insurance Purchases

Publication:

The Journal of Financial Intermediation

Author(s):

Alan J. Auerbach, Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Uncategorized

A Strategic Altruism Model in Which Ricardian Equivalence Does Not Hold

Publication:

The Economic Journal

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Assaf Razin, Robert Rosenthal

Uncategorized

The Crisis in US Saving and Proposals to Address the Crisis

Publication:

The National Tax Journal

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

US Economy

Demographics, Fiscal Policy, and US Saving in the 1980's and Beyond

Publication:

Tax Policy and the Economy

Author(s):

Alan J. Auerbach, Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Taxes

The Incidence and Efficiency Costs of Corporate Taxation when Corporate and NonCorporate Firms Produce the Same Goods

Publication:

Journal of Political Economy

Author(s):

Jane G. Gravelle, Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Deficit

Deficit Thinking

Publication:

The Sciences

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Social Security

On the Contribution of Economics to the Evaluation and Formation of Social Insurance Policy

Publication:

American Economic Review

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Global Issues

The Economics of Aging Populations: The Case of Four OECD Economies

Publication:

OECD Staff Papers

Author(s):

Alan Auerbach, Robert Haggerman, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Giuseppe Nicoletti

Taxes

Making Bequests Without Spoiling Children: Bequests as an Implicit Optimal Tax Structure and the Possibility that Altruistic Bequests are not Equalizing

Publication:

NBER Working Paper No. 2735

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Assaf Razin

Uncategorized

Social Contracts as Assets: A Possible Solution to the Time Consistency Problem

Publication:

The American Economic Review

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Thorsten Persson, Lars Svensson

Uncategorized

What Micro Economics Teaches Us About the Dynamic Macro Effects of Fiscal Policy

Publication:

The Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Deficit

The Deficit is not a Well-Defined Measure of Fiscal Policy

Publication:

Science

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

US Economy

Consumption, Computation Mistakes, and Fiscal Policy

Publication:

American Economic Review

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff with William Samuelson

Taxes

The Case for the Value-Added Tax

Publication:

Tax Notes

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Intergenerational Accounting

Intergenerational Transfers and Savings

Publication:

The Journal of Economic Perspectives

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

US Economy

Looking for the News in the Noise

Publication:

Annales d'Economie et de Statistique

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Ariel Pakes

Taxes

Pension Backloading, Wage Taxes, and Work Disincentives

Publication:

Tax Policy and the Economy

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff, David Wise

US Economy

Evaluating Fiscal Policy with a Dynamic Simulation Model

Publication:

American Economic Review

Author(s):

Alan J. Auerbach, Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Social Security

Justifying Public Provision of Social Security

Publication:

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Intergenerational Accounting, Social Security

Social Security: A Financial Analysis Within and Across Generations

Publication:

The National Tax Journal

Author(s):

Michael Boskin, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Douglas Puffert, John Shoven

Uncategorized

Dynamic Fiscal Policy

Publication:

Cambridge University Press

Author(s):

Alan J. Auerbach, Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Taxes

Tax Incidence

Publication:

Handbook of Public Economics

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Lawerence H. Summers

Intergenerational Accounting

The A-K OLG Model: Its Past, Present, and Future

Publication:

Using Dynamic General Equilibrium Models

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Deficit

Is Debt Neutral In the Life Cycle Model?

Publication:

NBER working paper 2053

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Life Insurance

The Effect of Annuity Insurance on Savings and Equality

Publication:

Journal of Labor Economics

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff with John Shoven and Avia Spivak

Deficit

Public Debt and U.S. Saving: A New Test of the Neutrality Hypothesis

Publication:

Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Michael Boskin

Social Security

Simulating Alternative Social Security Responses to the Demographic Transistion

Publication:

The National Tax Journal

Author(s):

Alan J. Auerbach, Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Deficit

Economic Impact of Deficit Financing

Publication:

IMF Staff Papers

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Taxes

Taxation and Savings: A Neoclassical Perspective

Publication:

Journal of Economic Literature

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

US Economy

National Savings and Economic Policy: The Efficacy of Investment versus Savings Incentives

Publication:

American Economic Review

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Social Security

An Examination of Empirical Tests of Social Security and Savings

Publication:

in E. Helpman, A. Razin, and E. Sadka, eds. Social Policy Evaluation: An Economic Perspective

Author(s):

Alan Auerbach, Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Deficit

Investment Incentives Savings Versus: The Size of the Bang for the Buck and the Potential

Publication:

The Economic Consequences of Government Deficits, Laurence H. Meyer, ed.

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Alan Auerbach

Taxes

National Savings, Economic Welfare, and the Structure of Taxation

Publication:

Behavioral Simulation Methods in Tax Policy Analysis

Author(s):

Alan, J. Auerbach, Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Taxes

The Efficiency Gains from Dynamic Tax Reform

Publication:

The International Economic Review

Author(s):

Alan J. Auerbach, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Jonathan Skinner

Life Cycle Investing

The Adequacy of Savings

Publication:

The American Economic Review

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Avia Spivak and Laurence H. Summers

Intergenerational Accounting

The Role of Intergeneration Transfers in Aggregate Capital Accumulation

Publication:

Journal of Political Economy

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Lawrence H. Summers

Intergenerational Accounting

The Family as an Incomplete Annuities Market

Publication:

Journal of Political Economy

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Avia Spivak

Historical

The Manumission of Slaves in New Orleans, 1827-1846

Publication:

Southern Studies

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Anton J. Rupert

Life Cycle Investing, Taxes

Tax Incidence in a Life Cycle Model with Variable Labor Supply

Publication:

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Lawrence Summers

Social Security

Social Secuity and Equilibrium Capital Intensity

Publication:

The Quarterly Journal of Economics

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Historical

The Structure of Slave Prices in New Orleans

Publication:

Economic Inquiry

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Taxes

Comment: The Incidence of a Tax on Pure Rent: A New Reason for an Old Answer

Publication:

Journal of Political Economy

Author(s):

Guillermo Calvo, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Carlos Alfredo Rodriguez

Social Security

Testing the Theory of Social Security and Life Cycle Accumulation

Publication:

The American Economic Review

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Social Security

Social Security, Time for Reform

Publication:

Working Paper

Author(s):

Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Historical

The Old South's Stake in the Inter-Regional Movement of the Slaves, 1850- 1860