• Will China Eat Our Lunch or Take Us to Dinner? – Simulating the Transition Paths
  of the U.S., EU, Japan, and China (with Hans Fehr and Sabine Jokisch) March 2007.
  

• Paul Samuleson's Amazing Intergenerational Transfer, in Samuelsonian Economics
  and the Twenty-First Century, Oxford University Press, 2006.

• The Great Pension Swindle, The Boston Globe, October 22, 2006.

• Drifting to Future Bankruptcy, The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 22, 2006.

• Americans' Dependency on Social Security (with Ben Marx and Pietro Rizza), October 2006.

• Comparing Average and Marginal Tax Rates under the FairTax
  and the Current System of Federal Taxation (with David Rapson), October 2006.
  

• Saving and Life Insurance Holdings at Boston University - A Unique Case Study,
  (with B. Douglas Bernheim, Solange Berstein and Jagdeesh Gokhale), October 2006.
  

• Taxing Sales under the FairTax – What Rate Works? (with Paul Bachman, Jonathan Haughton,
  Alfonso Sanchez-Penalver, David G. Tuerck), September 2006.

• Does It Pay, at the Margin, to Work and Save? --
  Measuring Effective Marginal Taxes on Americans’ Labor Supply and Savings
  (with David Rapson), August 2006.

• The Excess Burden of Government Indecision
  (with Francisco Gomes and Luis M. Viceira), July 24, 2006.

• The Time to Plan is Now, Time Magazine, July 2, 2006.

• On the General Relativity of Fiscal Language (with Jerry Green), June 2006.

• Are Economists Smarter? Economists' Voice, May 2006, Scientist Michael Kotlikoff Proves Otherwise,
  ChronicleOnline, Cornell University, April 26, 2007.

• Health Care Spending: What the Future Will Look Like
  (with Christian Hagist), April 27, 2006 Tables

• Financial Advisers Miss Mark by Ignoring Dynamic Method
  (with Scott Burns), The Dallas Morning News, April 25, 2006.

• Risking a Standard of Living (with Scott Burns),
  The Dallas Morning News, April 23, 2006.

• What is the Price of Retiring Early?
  (with Scott Burns), The Dallas Morning News, April 18, 2006.

• A Smoother Way to Save for Your Future
  (with Scott Burns), The Boston Globe, April 16, 2006.

• Planners Benefit When We Take Risks
  (with Scott Burns), The Dallas Morning News, April 11, 2006.

• Financial Planning 2.0
  (with Scott Burns), The Dallas Morning News, April 9, 2006.

• Grading the President's Tax Reform Panel
  Economists Voice, April 2006.

• Get Real about Retirement
  (with Scott Burns) The Dallas Morning News, April 2, 2006.

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

• Who's Going Broke? Comparing Healthcare Costs in Ten OECD Countries?
  (with Christian Hagist) December 2005.

• Grading the President’s Tax Reform Panel’s Plan, November 12, 2005.

• The New New Deal
  (with Nail Ferguson) The New Republic, August 18, 2005.

• Why Can't the World Bank Be More Like a Bank? (with James S. Henry)
  The Wall Street Journal, June 1, 2005.

• The Case for the 'FairTax
  The Wall Street Journal, March 7, 2005.

• The End of Social Security? Don't Reform It, Replace It
  Op-Ed, Boston Globe, November 21, 2004.

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

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

• Resolution for 2003: Real Telephone Competition in State
  Chattanooga Times, January 12, 2003.

• The Role of Competition in Stimulating Telecom Investment
  (with Kevin A. Hassett), 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), May 2002.

• Simulating the Transmission of Wealth Inequality
  (with Jagadeesh Gokhale), The American Economic Review, May 2002.

• Can People Compute? An Experimental Test of the Life Cycle Consumption Model
  (with Stephen Johnson and William Samuelson), in Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Essays on Saving,
  Bequests, Altruism, and Life-Cycle Planning, MIT Press, 2001.

• Comparing the Economic and Conventional Approaches to Financial Planning
  (with Jagadeesh Gokhale and Mark Warshawsky), in Laurence J. Kotlikoff,
  Essays on Saving, Bequests, Altruism, and Life-Cycle Planning, MIT Press, 2001.

• Who Gets Paid to Save?
  (with Jagadeesh Gokhale), September 2001.

• Does Saving in a 401(k) Raise Your Lifetime Taxes?
  (with Jagadeesh Gokhale and Todd Neuman), May 2001.

• Finding a Way Out of America's Demographic Dilemma
  (with Kent Smetters and Jan Walliser), 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), Boston University, 2001.

• The Case for a Tax Hike
  Boston University, 2001.

• Simulating the Transmission of Wealth Inequality via Bequests
  (with Jagadeesh Gokhale, James Sefton, and Martin Weale),
  The Journal of Public Economics, 2001.

• Simulating Fundamental Tax Reform in the U.S.
  (with David Altig, Alan Auerbach, Kent Smetters, and Jan Walliser),
  American Economic Review, 2001.

• Generational Policy
  The Handbook of Public Economics, Second Edition,
  (Alan J. Auerbach and Martin S. Feldstein, eds.), North Holland, 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.

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

•  The Degeneration of EMU
  (with Niall Ferguson), Foreign Affairs, March/April 2000.

• The World Bank's Approach and the Right Approach to Pension Reform
  mimeo, August 1999.

• Generational Accounting Around the World
  (edited with Alan Auerbach, and Willi Leibfritz), Chicago University Press, 1999.

• Generational Accounting in the UK
  (with Roberto Cardelli, and James Sefton), November 1998.

• 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.

• Parental Altruism and Inter Vivos Transfers: Theory and Evidence
  (with Joseph Altonji and Fumio Hayashi), The Journal of Political Economy, 1997.

• Generational Accounting in General Equilibrium (with Hans Fehrs)
  in FinancArchiv, Neue Folge, Band 53, Heft 1, 1996/1997.

• Risk-Sharing Between and Within Families
  (with Joseph Altonji and Fumio Hayashi), Econometrica, March 1996.

• Understanding the Postwar Decline in U.S. Savings: a Cohort Analysis
  (with Jagadeesh Gokhale and John Sabelhaus),
  The Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1996.

• Intergenerational Altruism and the Effectiveness of Fiscal Policy: New Tests Based
  on Cohort Data, (with Andy Abel), in Savings and Bequests, 1994.

• Generational Accounting: A Meaningful Way to Assess Generational Policy (with Alan
  Auerbach and Jagadeesh Gokhale), The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1994.

• Some Inefficiency Implications of Generational Politics and Exchange
  (with Robert W. Rosenthal), Economics and Politics, 1993.

• From Deficit Delusion to the Fiscal Balance Rule - Looking for a Sensible Way to Measure
  Fiscal Policy, The Journal of Economics, Seventh Supplement, 1993.

• Estimating the Age-Productivity Profile Using Lifetime Earnings
  (with Jagadeesh Gokhale), The Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 1992.

• Generational Accounting, The Free Press, 1992.

• Is the Extended Family Altruistically Linked?
  (with Joe Altonji and Fumio Hayashi), The American Economic Review, 1992.

• How Regional Differences in Taxes and Public Goods Distort Life
  Cycle Location Choices (with Bernd Raffelheuschen), NBER Working Paper 1991.

• A Strategic Altruism Model in Which Ricardian Equivalence Does Not Hold
  (with Assaf Razin and Robert Rosenthal), The Economic Journal, December 1990.

• What Determines Savings? MIT Press, 1989.

• The Incidence and Efficiency Costs of corporate Taxation when Corporate
  and NonCorporate Firms Produce the Same Goods (with Jane G. Gravelle),
  Journal of Political Economy, 1989.

• Social Contracts as Assets: A Possible Solution to the Time Consistency Problem
  (with Thorsten Persson and Lars Svensson), The American Economic Review, September 1988.

• Consumption, Computation Mistakes, and Fiscal Policy
  (with William Samuelson), American Economic Review, May 1988.

• Dynamic Fiscal Policy (with Alan Auerbach), Cambridge University Press, 1987.

• The A-K OLG Model: Its Past, Present, and Future
  Dynamic Fiscal Policy, 1987.

• Tax Incidence (with Lawerence H. Summers), Handbook of Public Economics, Vol II, 1987.

• The Effect of Annuity Insurance on Savings and Equality
  (with John Shoven and Avia Spivak), Journal of Labor Economics, 1986.

• Public Debt and U.S. Saving: A New Test of the Neutrality Hypothesis
  (with Michael Boskin), Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, Autumn 1985.

• Looking for the News in the Noise
  (with Ariel Pakes), Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, January-March 1988.

• Taxation and Savings: A Neoclassical Perspective
  Journal of Economic Literature, 1984.

• Investment Incentives Savings Versus: The Size of the Bang for the Buck and the Potential
  for Self-Financing Business Tax Cuts, (with Alan Auerbach), in The Economic Consequences
  of Government Deficits, Laurence H. Meyer, ed., Kluwer Nijhoff Publishing, 1983.

• The Adequacy of Savings (with Avia Spivak and Laurence H. Summers)
  The American Economic Review, 1982.

• The Family as an Incomplete Annuities Market (with Avia Spivak)
  Journal of Political Economy, 1981.

• The Role of Intergeneration Transfers in Aggregate Capital Accumulation
  (with Lawrence H. Summers), Journal of Political Economy, 1981.

• The Manumission of Slaves in New Orleans, 1827-1846
  (with Anton J. Rupert), Southern Studies, 1980.

• Social Secuity and Equilibrium Capital Intensity
  The Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1979.

• Testing the Theory of Social Security and Life Cycle Accumulation
  The American Economic Review, 1979.

• The Structure of Slave Prices in New Orleans, Economic Inquiry, 1979.

• Comment: The Incidence of a Tax on Pure Rent: A New (?) Reason for an Old Answer
  (with Guillermo Calvo and Carlos Alfredo Rodriguez), Journal of Political
  Economy, 1979.

• The Old South's Stake in the Inter-Regional Movement of the Slaves, 1850- 1860
  (with Jose Pinera), The Journal of Economic History, June 1977.

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