SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER ARTICLES 

• "Is Conventional Financial Planning Good for Your Financial Health?" January 2006.

• "Phone Degulation Needs 2nd Step" The Dallas Morning News, June 2, 2003.

• "An Economic 'Menu of Pain' " The Boston Globe, May 19, 2003.

• "Outing the Bells" The Boston Globe, May 3, 2003.

• "Does It Pay Both Spouses to Work?" NCPA, May 2003. (Executive Summary)

• "On the Broadband Mess" Milken Review, First Quarter 2003.

• "Natural Monopoly and the Definition of “Impairment” mimeo, January 2003.

• "Resolution for 2003: Real Telephone Competition in State" Chattanooga Times, January 12, 2003.
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• "What Japan Must Do" (with Alan Auerbach), Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Japanese Business News), November 2002.
  
  
• "The Role of Competition in Stimulating Telecom Investment" (with Kevin A. Hassett), mimeo, October 2002.
  
  
• "Getting Argentina Back to the Future" (with Juan Pablo Nicolini), LA Times, June 30, 2002.
  
  
• "Does It Pay to Work?" (with Jagadeesh Gokhale and Alexi Sluchynsky), November 2002.
  
  
• "The Adequacy of Life Insurance" (with Jagadeesh Gokhale), June 2002.
  
  
• "Intertemporal State Budgeting" (with Bruce Baker and Daniel Besendorfer), June 2002.
  
  
• "Saving and Life Insurance Holdings at Boston University" (with B. Douglas Bernheim, Solange Berstein and Jagadeesh Gokhale), mimeo, May 2002.
  
  
• "Who Gets Paid to Save?" (with Jagadeesh Gokhale), mimeo, September 2001.
  
  
• "The Coming Generational Storm" mimeo, June 2001.
  
  
• "Does Saving in a 401(k) Raise Your Lifetime Taxes?" (with Jagadeesh Gokhale and Todd Neuman), mimeo, May 2001.
•  “Finding a Way Out of America's Demographic Dilemma" (with Kent Smetters and Jan Walliser), mimeo, April 2001.
• “The Mismatch Between Life Insurance Holdings and Financial Vulnerabilties: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Survey” (with B. Douglas Bernheim, Lorenzo Forni, and Jagadeesh Gokhale), mimeo, Boston University, 2001.
• “The Case for a Tax Hike” mimeo, Boston University, 2001.
  

• "The Baby Boomers’ Mega-Inheritance —Myth or Reality?" (with Jagadeesh Gokhale), Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Economic Commentary,  Oct 2000. (pdf)
  
  
• “The Right and Wrong Ways to Reform Pensions in Russia,” mimeo, Boston University, 2000.
• “Generational Policy” forthcoming in The Handbook of Public Economics, Second Edition, (Alan J. Auerbach and Martin S. Feldstein, eds.), North Holland, 2001.
• "Medicare, Social Security, and the Calm Before the Generational Storm" (with Jagadeesh Gokhale), mimeo, Boston University, 2000. 
• “Distributional Effects in a General Equilibrium Analysis of Social Security”plus tables and figures (with Kent Smetters and Jan Walliser), forthcoming in The Distributional Effects of Social Security Reform, (Martin Feldstein, ed.), University of Chicago Press, 2000.
•  "Social Security's Treatment of Postwar Americans -- How Bad Can it Get" plus Appendix (with Jagadeesh Gokhale), forthcoming in The Distributional Effects of Social Security Reform, (Martin Feldstein, ed.), University of Chicago Press, 2000.
• "The World Bank's Approach and the Right Approach to Pension Reform" mimeo, August 1999.
• “Simulating the Transmission of Wealth Inequality via Bequests” (with Jagadeesh Gokhale, James Sefton, and Martin Weale), NBER working paper no. 7183, forthcoming, The Journal of Public Economics, August 1999.
• Generational Accounting Around the World (edited with Alan Auerbach, and Willi Leibfritz), Chicago University Press, 1999
• Macroeconomics - 2nd Edition (with Alan Auerbach), MIT Press, 1998
• "Privatizing Social Security the Right Way" testimony to the Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives, June 3, 1998.
• “Simulating Fundamental Tax Reform in the U.S.” (with David Altig, Alan Auerbach, Kent Smetters, and Jan Walliser), American Economic Review, 2001.
• "Parental Altruism and Inter Vivos Transfers: Theory and Evidence" (with Joseph Altonji and Fumio Hayashi), The Journal of Political Economy, 1997
• "Understanding the Postwar Decline in U.S. Savings: a Cohort Analysis" (with Jagadeesh Gokhale and John Sabelhaus), The Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1996
• Generational Accounting, The Free Press, 1992
• "Is the Extended Family Altruistically Linked?" (with Joe Altonji and Fumio Hayashi), The American Economic Review, 1992
• What Determines Savings? MIT Press, 1989
• Dynamic Fiscal Policy (with Alan Auerbach), Cambridge University Press, 1987

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