Degrees:
Harvard College, A.B., summa cum laude (1961)
Oxford University, B. Litt. (1963), M.A. (1964), D. Phil. (1967)
Previous Positions:
Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers, 1982-84
Harvard University: Assistant Professor, 1967-78; Associate Professor, 1968-69
Oxford University:
Lecturer in Public Finance, 1965-67
Nuffield College: Research Fellow, 1964-65; Official Fellow, 1965-67
Professional Activities and Honors:
John Bates Clark Medal of the American Economic Association, 1977
Honorary Degrees: University of Rochester, (1984); Marquette University, (1985); Bentley College, (1988); Adelphi University, (1991).
Fellow, Econometric Society, 1970-
Member, American Philosophical Society, 1989-
Member, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, 1971-
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1977-
Fellow, National Association of Business Economists, 1980-
Corresponding Member, The British Academy 1998-
Foreign Member, Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1996-
Honorary Fellow, Nuffield College Oxford, 1998-
Member, Council on Foreign Relations, 1980-
Member, American Economic Association. Executive Committee, 1980-82; Vice President 1988-89.
Member, The Trilateral Commission, 1984- ; Executive Committee, 1990-
Member of the Editorial Board, Review of Economic Studies (1965-67),
Journal of Public Economics (co-editor, 1972-86), American Economic Review, (1974- 79), The Public Interest, The National Interest.
Board of Contributors, The Wall Street Journal
Syndicated Columnist, The Los Angeles Times syndicate and foreign newspapers (with Kathleen Feldstein)
Director: American International Group; J. P. Morgan; TRW, Inc
Member, Panel of Economic Advisers, Congressional Budget Office
Member, Advisory Board, Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation
Member, Panel of Economic Advisers, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Member, Panel of Academic Advisers, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Economic Adviser to several U.S. and foreign corporations
Member of the Corporation, Massachusetts General Hospital
Elizabeth Morgan Prize, University of Chicago, 1976
Walras-Bowley Lecture, Econometric Society, 1980
Joseph Schumpeter Professor, University of Vienna, March 1981
Distinguished Public Service Award, The Tax Foundation, 1983
John R. Commons Prize, Omichron Delta Epsilon, 1989
Jan Tinbergen Lecture, Netherlands Royal Economic Society, 1992
Bernhard Harms Prize, Weltwirtschafts Institute, Germany, 1994
Schumpeter Lecture, European Economic Association, 1994
Richard Ely Lecture, American Economic Association, 1996
International Prize of INA - Academia Nazionale dei Lincei (Italy), 1997
Personal Information:
Born: November 25, 1939, New York
Married: Kathleen Foley Feldstein; Two daughters
Publications:
Author of more than 300 scientific papers and the author or editor of several books,
including Inflation, Tax Rules, and Capital Formation; Taxes and Capital Formation; The
United States and the World Economy; Reducing the Risk of Economic Crisis; The
Economics of Art Museums; and American Economic Policy in the 1980s.
January 1999
2. "Net Social Benefit Calculation and the Public Investment Decision," Oxford Economic Papers, Vol. 16, No. 1, March 1964.
3. "The Social Time Preference Discount Rate in Cost-Benefit Analysis," The Economic Journal, 1964.
4. "The Problem of Time-Stream Evaluation: Present Values versus Internal Rate of Return Rules," (with J. S. Flemming), Bulletin of the Oxford University Institute of Economics and Statistics, 1964.
5. "Cost Benefit Analysis and Investment in the Public Sector," Public Administration, 1964.
6. "Opportunity Cost Calculations in Cost-Benefit Analysis," Public Finance, Vol. 19, No. 2, 1964.
7. "Hospital Planning and the Demand for Care," Bulletin of the Oxford University Institute of Economics and Statistics, 1964.
8. "The Derivation of Social Time Preference Rates," Kyklos, Vol. 18, 1965.
9. "Improving the Use of Hospital Maternity Beds," Operational Research Quarterly, 1965.
10. "Hospital Bed Scarcity: An Analysis of the Effects of Interregional Differences," Economica, November 1965.
11. "A Binary Variable Multiple Regression Method of Analyzing Factors Affecting Perinatal Mortality and Other Outcomes of Pregnancy," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Vol. 129, Part 1, 1966.
12. "Specification of the Labor Input in the Aggregate Production Function," Review of Economic Studies, 1967.
13. Economic Analysis for Health Service Efficiency: Econometric Studies of the British National Health Service (Volume 51 of Contributions to Economic Analysis), Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1967.
14. "Alternative Methods of Estimating a CES Production Function for Britain," Economica, 1967.
15. "The Effectiveness of the British Differential Profits Tax," Economic Journal, 1967.
16. "On the Measurement of Risk Aversion," Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 35, No. 1, July 1968.
17. "Estimating the Supply Curve of Working Hours," Oxford Economic Papers, 1968.
18. "The Interest Rate, Taxation and the Personal Savings Incentive," (with S. C. Tsiang), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1968.
19. "Uncertainty and Forward Exchange Speculation," Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 50, No. 2, May 1968.
20. "The Use of An Econometric Model for Health Sector Planning," in Federal Programs for the Development of Human Resources: A Compendium of Papers Submitted to the Subcommittee on Economic Progress of the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, 1968.
21. "Shadow Prices in Industrial Project Evaluation," (with J. S. Flemming), in U.N. Industrial Development Organization, Evaluation of Industrial Projects, 1968.
22. "Mean-Variance Analysis in the Theory of Liquidity Preference and Portfolio Selection," Review of Economic Studies, 1969.
23. "The Effects of Taxation on Risk-Taking," Journal of Political Economy, 1969.
24. "Advertising, Research and Profits in the Drug Industry," Southern Economic Journal, 1969.
25. "Corporate Taxation and Dividend Behavior," Review of Economic Studies, 1970.
26. "Choice of Technique in the Public Sector: A Simplification," Economic Journal, 1970.
27. "The Fundamental Determinants of the Interest Rate," (with O. Eckstein), Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 52, No. 4, November 1970.
28. "Health Sector Planning in Developing Countries," Economica, Vol. 37, May 1970.
29. "Inflation, Specification Bias and the Impact of Interest Rates," Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 78, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 1970.
30. "The Rising Price of Physicians' Services," Vol. 52, No. 2, May 1970.
31. "An Aggregate Planning Model of the Health Care Sector," in J. Paelinck, Programming for Europe's Collective Needs, Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1970.
32. "Improving Medical Care Price Statistics," 1969 Proceedings of the Business and Economics Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association, 1970.
33. "An Econometric Model of the Medicare System," Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 85, No. 1, February 1971. (See also "Econometric Anaylsis of the Medicare Program," in Benefit Cost Analysis of Federal Programs, Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress, 1973.).
34. "The Error of Forecast in Econometric Models When the Forecast-Period Exogenous Variables Are Stochastic," Econometrica, Vol. 39, No. 1, January 1971.
35. "The Other Half of Gross Investment: Replacement and Modernization Expenditures," (with D. Foot), Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 53, No. 1, February 1971.
36. "Production with Uncertain Technology: Some Economic and Econometric Implications," International Economic Review, Vol. 12, No. 1, February 1971.
37. "Tax Policy, Corporate Saving and Investment Behavior in Britain," (with J. Flemming), Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 38, October 1971.
38. "Hospital Cost Inflation: A Study of Nonprofit Price Dynamics," American Economic Review, Vol, 61, No. 5, December 1971.
39. "A New Approach to National Health Insurance," The Public Interest, No. 23, Spring 1971.
40. The Rising Cost of Hospital Care, published for the National Center for Health Services Research and Development, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (Washington: Information Resources Press, 1977).
41. "Equity and Efficiency in Public Sector Pricing: The Optimal Two-Part Tariff," Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 86, May 1972.
42. "The Rising Price of Physicians' Services: Reply," Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 54, No. 1, February 1972.
43. "The Incidence of the Social Security Payroll Tax: Comment," American Economic Review, Vol. 52, No. 4, Sept. 1972.
44. "Distributional Equity and the Optimal Structured of Public Prices," American Economic Review, Vol. 62, No. 1, March 1972.
45. "The Pricing of Public Intermediate Goods," Journal of Public Economics, 1972, pp. 45-72.
46. "Corporate Taxation and Dividend Behavior: Reply and Further Results," Review of Economic Studies, April, 1972. pp. 235-240.
47. "An Econometric Model of Business Cycles: Discussion," in B. Hickman (ed.), Econometric Models of Cyclical Behavior, Vol. II (New York: Columbia University Press, 1972).
48. "Financing in the Evaluation of Public Expenditure," in W. Smith et al. (eds.), Essays in Public Finance and Stabilization Policy, Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1974.
49. "The Welfare Loss of Excess Health Insurance," Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 81, No. 2, Part 1 March-April 1973.
50. "Distributional Aspects of National Health Insurance Benefits and Finance," (with B. Friedman and H. Luft), National Tax Journal, Vol. 25, No. 4, December 1972.
51. Resource Allocation Model for Public Health Planning, (with M. Piot and T. Sundaresan), published as a Supplement to the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 1973.
52. "Multicollinearity and the Mean Square Error of Alternative Estimators," Econometrica, Vol. 41, No. 2, March 1973.
53. "Cost Benefit Analysis in Developing Countries: The Evaluation of Projects Financed by Aid and External Loans," in W. David (ed.), Public Finance, Planning and Economic Development: Essays in Honour of Ursula Hicks, (London: Macmillan, 1973).
54. "Distributional Preferences in Public Expenditure Analysis," in H. Hochman and G. Peterson (eds.), The Political Economy of Income Distribution, New York: Columbia University Press, 1974.
55. Lowering the Permanent Rate of Unemployment, Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress, Washington, 1973.
56. "Tax Incentives, Corporate Saving, and Capital Accumulation in the United States," Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 2, April 1973.
57. "Distributional Constraints in Public Expenditure Planning," (with H. Luft), Management Science, Vol. 12, No. 12, August 1973.
58. "An Econometric Model of the Medicare System: Reply," Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 1973.
59. "Tax Subsidies of Private Health Insurance: Distribution, Revenue Loss and Effects," (with E. Allison) in The Economics of Federal Subsidy Programs, Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress, Washington, July 1974.
60. "Toward An Economic Theory of Replacement Investment," (with M. Rothschild), Econometrica, Vol. 42, No. 3, 1974.
61. "Taxes, Corporate Dividend Policy and Personal Savings: The British Postwar Experience," (with G. Fane), Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 55, No. 4, November 1973.
62. "The Quality of Hospital Services: An Analysis of Geographic Variation and Intertemporal Change," in Economics of Health and Medical Care (An I.E.A. Conference), M. Perlman and S. Tsuru (eds.), 1974.
63. "Econometric Studies of Health Economics," in Frontiers of Quantitative Economics II, Vol. 2, M. Intriligator and D. Kendrick (eds.), Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1974.
64. "Multimarket Expectations and the Rate of Interest," (with G. Chamberlain), Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Vol. 5, No. 4, November 1973.
65. "Tax Incidence in a Growing Economy with Variable Factor Supply," Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 88, November 1974.
66. "The Medical Economy," Scientific American, Vol. 229, No. 3, September 1973.
67. "On the Optimal Progressivity of the Income Tax," Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 2, July 1973.
68. "Economics of the New Unemployment," Public Interest, No. 33, Fall 1973.
69. "Errors in Variables: A Consistent Estimator with Smaller MSE in Finite Samples," Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 69, No. 348, December 1974.
70. "Tax Incentives, Stabilization Policy and the Proportional Replacement Hypothesis: Some Negative Conclusions," Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 40, No. 4, April 1974.
71. "Incidence of a Capital Income Tax in a Growing Economy with Variable Savings Rates," Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 41, No. 4, October 1974.
72. " Neutrality and Local Choice in Public Education," American Economic Review, Vol. 115, No. 1, March 1975.
73. "Social Security, Induced Retirement and Aggregate Capital Accumulation," Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 82, No. 5, September-October 1974.
74. "Unemployment Compensation: Adverse Incentives and Distributional Anomalies," National Tax Journal, Vol. 27, No. 2, June 1974.
75. "The Rising Price of Physicians' Services: A Clarification," (with D. Brown and H. Lapan), The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 104, No. 3, August 1974.
76. "The Income Tax and Charitable Contributions: Part I - Aggregate and Distributional Effects," National Tax Journal, Vol. 28, No. 1, March 1975.
77. "The Income Tax and Charitable Contributions: Part II - The Impact on Religious, Educational and Other Organizations," National Tax Journal, June 1975.
78. "The Effect of National Health Insurance on the Price and Quantity of Medical Care," (with B. Friedman) in The Role of Health Insurance in the Health Services Sector (a Universities-National Bureau of Economic Research Conference), R. Rosett (ed.), No. 27, 1976.
79. "Social Security and Private Savings: International Evidence in an Extended Life Cycle Model," in The Economics of Public Services, an International Economic Association Conference Volume, M. Feldstein and R. Inman (eds.), 1977.
80. "Tax Incentives and Charitable Contributions in the United States: A Microeconometric Analysis," (with C. Clotfelter), Journal of Public Economics, 1976.
81. "Unemployment Insurance: Time for Reform," Harvard Business Review, March-April 1975.
82. "Toward a Reform of Social Security," The Public Interest, No. 40, Summer 1975.
83. "Personal Taxation and Portfolio Composition: An Econometric Analysis," Econometrica, Vol. 44, No. 4, July 1976.
84. "On the Theory of Tax Reform," Journal of Public Economics, 1976.
85. "Charitable Bequests, Estate Taxation and Intergenerational Transfers," in Essays in Urban Economics and Public Finance in Honor of William S. Vickrey, 1976.
86. "Perceived in Bonds and Social Security: A Comment," Journal of Political Economy, 1976.
87. "Temporary Layoffs in the Theory of Unemployment," Journal of Political Economy, 1976.
88. "The Importance of Temporary Layoffs: An Empirical Analysis," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 3:1975.
89. "The Income Tax and Charitable Contributions," (with A. Taylor), Econometrica, Vol. 44, No. 6, November 1976.
90. "Tax Subsidies, the Rational Demand for Insurance and the Health Care Crisis," (with B. Friedman), Journal of Public Economics, 1977.
91. "Social Security and Saving: The Extended Life Cycle Theory," American Economic Review, 1976.
92. "The Unemployment Caused by Unemployment Insurance," Proceedings of the Industrial Relations Research Association, 1976.
93. "The Welfare Cost of Capital Income Taxation," Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 86, No. 2, Part 2, 1978.
94. "Inflation, Income Taxes and the Rate of Interest: A Theoretical Analysis," American Economic Review, 1976.
95. "Taxing Consumption," The New Republic, February 1976.
96. "Social Insurance," in Income Distribution, Colin D. Campbell (ed.), 1977 and in Public Policy, Vol. 25, No. 1, Winter 1977.
97. "Inflation and Taxes in a Growing Economy with Debt and Equity Finance," (with J. Green and E. Sheshinski), Journal of Political Economy, 1978.
98. "Social Security and the Distribution of ," Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1976.
99. "The Surprising Incidence of a Tax on Pure Rent: A New Answer to an Old Question," Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 85, No. 2, 1977.
100. "Hospital Costs in Massachusetts: A Methodological Study," (with James Schuttinga), Inquiry, Volume 14, March 1977.
101. "Compensation in Tax Reform," National Tax Journal, 1976.
102. "Effects of the Charitable Deduction on Contributions by Low Income and Middle Income Households: Evidence from the National Survey of Philanthropy," (with Michael Boskin), Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 119, No. 3, August 1977.
103. "Inventory Behavior in Durable Goods Manufacturing: The Target Adjustment Model," (with Alan Auerbach), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2:1976.
104. "National Saving in the United States," Capital for Productivity and Jobs, The American Assembly, E. Shapiro and W. White (eds.), 1977.
105. "The Social Security Fund and National Capital Accumulation," Funding Pensions: The Issues and Implications for , a Federal Reserve Bank of Boston publication, 1977.
106. "Does the U.S. Save Too Little?" American Economic Review, Vol. 67, No. 1, February 1977.
107. "Quality Change and the Demand for Hospital Care," Econometrica, Vol. 45, No. 7, October 1977.
108. "Seven Principles of Social Insurance," Challenge, 1976.
109. "Corporate Tax Integration: The Estimated Effects on Capital Accumulation and Tax Distribution of Two Integration Proposals," (with Daniel Frisch), National Tax Journal, Vol. 30, No. 1, 1977.
110. "New Evidence on the Distribution of Unemployment Insurance Benefits," National Tax Journal, Vol. 30, No. 2, June 1977.
111. The Rapid Rise of Hospital Costs, (with Amy Taylor), published by the Council on Wage and Price Stability, 1977.
112. "Facing the Social Security Crisis," The Public Interest, No. 47, Spring 1977.
113. "Distributing Federal Education Aid to Low Achievement Pupils: The Predicted Achievement Method," in Evaluation Studies Review Annual, Vol. 2, Marcia Guttentag (ed.), 1977.
114. "Is the Rate of Profit Falling?" (with Lawrence Summers), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1:1977.
115. "The High Cost of Hospitals -- and What to Do About It," The Public Interest, No. 48, Summer 1977.
116. "The Effect of the Capital Gains Tax on the Selling and Switching of Common Stock," (with Shlomo Yitzhaki), Journal of Public Economics, February 1978.
117. "Tax Reform and the Investor," Data Resources Review, August 1977.
118. "Social Security : The Impact of Alternative Inflation Adjustments," (with Anthony Pellechio), in Colin Campbell, Financial Social Security, 1979, 91-117.
119. "The Effect of Unemployment Insurance on Temporary Layoff Unemployment," American Economic Review, 1978.
120. The Economics of Public Services, (edited with Robert Inman), an International Economics Association Conference Volume, London: Macmillan, 1977.
121. "The Effect of a Differential Add-on Grant: Title I and Local Education Spending," Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 13, No. 4, 1978.
122. Corporate Tax Integration: A Quantitative Comparison of Alternatives, (with Daniel Frisch), New York: Tax Foundation, Brief No. 28, 1978.
123. "Inflation, Tax Rules and the Long-Term Interest Rate," (with Lawrence Summers), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Vol. 1, January 1978, pp 61-109.
124. "The Private and Social Costs of Unemployment," American Economic Review, Vol. 68, No. 2, May 1978, pp 155-158.
125. "Do Increase National Savings?" Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 10, No. 3, December 1978, pp 277-293.
126. "Corporate Financial Policy and Taxation in a Growing Economy," (with Jerry Green and Eytan Sheshinski), Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. XCIII, No. 3, August 1979, pp 411-432.
127. "Social Security and Private Savings: Reply to Barro," American Enterprise Institute, 1978.
Journal of Political Economy, Vol 90, No. 3, June 1982, pp 630-642.
128. "The Rate of Return, Taxation, and Personal Savings," The Economic Journal, Vol. 88, September 1978.
129. "Inflation and the Excess Taxation of Capital Gains on Corporate Stock," (with Joel Slemrod), National Tax Journal, Vol. 31, No. 2, June 1978, pp 107-118.
130. "Social Security and Household Accumulation: New Microeconometric Evidence," (with Anthony Pellechio), Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 61, No. 3, August 1979, pp 361.
131. "How Inflation Distorts the Taxation of Capital Gains," (with Joel Slemrod), Harvard Business Review, No. 78559, September-October 1978.
132. "The Welfare Cost of Permanent Inflation and Optimal Short-Run Economic Policy," (The Morgan Prize Lecture), Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 87, No. 4, 1979, pp 749-768.
133. "The Lock-In Effect of the Capital Gains Tax: Some Time Series Evidence," (with Joel Slemrod), Tax Notes, Vol. VII, No. 6, August 1978, pp 134-135.
134. "The Optimal Taxation of Foreign Source Investment Income," (with David Hartman), Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. XCIII, No. 4, November 1979, pp 613-629.
135. "Alternative Approaches to Compensatory Education: Expenditure Effects," (with Bernard Friedman), Public Finance Quarterly, 1979.
136. "A Contribution to the Theory of Tax Expenditures: The Case of Charitable Giving," Essays in Honor of Joseph Pechman, H. Aaron and M. Boskin (eds.), 1980. See also "Reply to Driessner," Journal of Public Economics, 1980, pp 99-122.
137. "The Effects of Taxation on the Selling of Corporate Stock and the Realization of Capital Gains," (with Joel Slemrod and Shlomo Yitzhaki), Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. XCIV, No. 4, June 1980, pp 777-791.
138. "The Effect of Social Security on Private Savings: The Time Series Evidence," Social Security Bulletin, Vol. 42, No. 5, May 1979, pp 36-39.
139. "Fiscal Policies, Inflation and Capital Formation," American Economic Review, Vol. 70, No. 4, September 1980, pp 636-650.
140. "Inflation and the Stock Market," American Economic Review, Vol. 70, No. 5, December 1980, pp 839-847.
141. "The Effect of Social Security on Saving," (The 1979 Frank Paish Lecture to the British Association of University Teachers of Economics), Contemporary Economic Analysis III, 1981.
142. "Social Security Hobbles Our Capital Formation," Harvard Business Review, No. 79449, July/August 1979.
143. "Taxes, Inflation, and Capital Formation," National Tax Journal, Vol. 32, No. 3, 1979.
144. "Teenage Unemployment: What is the Problem?" (with David Ellwood), R.B. Freeman, D.A. Wise, eds. The Youth Labor Market Problem: Its Nature, Causes and Consequences, Chicago: University of Chicago, 1982, pp 17-33.
145. "Inflation and the Taxation of Capital Income in the Corporate Sector," (with Lawrence Summers), National Tax Journal, Vol. 32, No. 4, 1979, pp 445-470.
146. "Personal Taxation, Portfolio Choice and the Effect of the Corporation Income Tax," (with Joel Slemrod), Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 88, No. 5, October 1980, pp 854-866.
147. "The New Economics and Government Policy," Business Horizons, No. 79401, 1979.
148. "Domestic Savings and International Capital Flows," (with Charles Horioka), The 1979 W. A. Mackintosh Lecture at Queen's University, Economic Journal, June 1980, 90(358), pp 314-329.
149. "International Differences in Social Security and Saving," Journal of Public Economics, October 1980, 14(2), pp 225-244.
150. "Inflation, Tax Rules and the Stock Market," Journal of Monetary Economics, July 1980, 6(3), pp 309-331.
151. "Tax Rules and the Mismanagement of Monetary Policy," American Economic Review, Vol. 70, No. 2, May 1980, pp 182-186.
152. The American Economy In Transition (Introduction and editor), The Sixtieth Anniversary Volume of the National Bureau of Economic Research, 1981.
153. Hospital Costs and Health Insurance, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981.
154. "Social Security Benefits and the Accumulation of Preretirement ," The Determinants of National Saving and , Proceedings of a 1980 International Economic Association Conference, Franco Modigliani (ed.), New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983.
155. "The Distribution of the U.S. Capital Stock Between Residential and Industrial Uses," Economic Inquiry, Vol. 19, No. 1, January 1981, pp 26-37.
156. "Inflation, Tax Rules, and the Prices of Land and Gold," Journal of Public Economics, 14(3), December 1980, pp 309-317.
157. "Government Deficits and Aggregate Demand," Journal of Monetary Economics, 9(1), January 1982, pp 1-20.
158. "Adjusting Depreciation in an Inflationary Economy," National Tax Journal, Vol. 34, No. 1, March 1981, pp 29-43.
159. "Inflation, Portfolio Choice, and the Prices of Land and Corporate Stock," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 62(5), December 1980, pp 910-916.
160. "Private Pensions and Inflation," American Economic Review, Vol. 71, No. 2, May 1981, pp 424-428.
161. "Why Do Companies Pay Dividends?" (with Jerry Green), American Economic Review, 73(1), March 1983, pp 17-30.
162. "Pension Funding, Share Prices and National Saving," (with Stephanie Seligman), Journal of Finance, 36(4), September 1981, pp 801-824.
163. "Social Security and Private Savings: Reply," Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 90, No. 3, June 1982, pp 630-642.
164. "Inflation and the Taxation of Capital in the Corporate Sector: Reply," (with Lawrence Summers), National Tax Journal, Vol. 33, No. 4, December 1980, pp 485-488.
165. "Inflation, Capital Taxation and Monetary Policy," in R. E. Hall (ed.), Inflation: Causes and Effects, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982, pp 153-167.
166. "Simulating Nonlinear Tax Rules and Nonstandard Behavior: An Application to the Tax Treatment of Charitable Contributions," (with Lawrence Lindsey), in M. Feldstein (ed.), Behavioral Simulation Methods in Tax Policy Analysis, Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1983, pp 139-167.
167. "Alternative Tax Rules and Personal Savings Incentives: Microeconomic Data and Behavioral Simulations," (with Daniel Feenberg), in M. Feldstein (ed.), Behavioral Simulations Methods in Tax Policy Analysis, Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1983, pp 173-209.
168. Behavioral Simulation Methods in Tax Policy Analysis, (Introduction and editor), NBER Conference Volume, 1983.
169. "'Twas a Night in the Sixties," Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 89, No. 6, 1981, pp 1266-1269.
170. Two Lectures on Macroeconomic Policy, The 1980 Woodward Lectures, Department of Economics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. 1980.
171. "Inflation, Tax Rules and Investment: Some Econometric Evidence," The 1980 Fisher-Schultz Lecture of the Econometric Society, Econometrica, Vol. 50, No. 4, July 1982, pp 825-862. See also "Reply to Chirinko," Journal of Public Economics, 1987.
172. "The Retreat from Keynesian Economics," The Public Interest, No. 64, Summer 1981.
173. "Inflation and the Stock Market: Reply," American Economic Review, Vol. 72, No. 1, March 1982, pp 243-246.
174. "The Effective Tax Rate and the Pretax Rate of Return," (with James Poterba and Louis Dicks-Mireaux), Journal of Public Economics, 21(2), July 1983, pp 129-158.
175. "Inflation, Tax Rules and the Accumulation of Residential and Nonresidential Capital Stock," presented at the Conference on Allocational and Structural Consequences of Short-Run Stabilization Policy in Open Economies, Stockholm, September 1981, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, No. 84, No. 2, 1982, pp 293-311.
176. "Private Pensions as Corporate Debt," in B. Friedman (ed.), The Changing Roles of Debt and Equity in Financing U.S. Capital Formation, NBER Conference Volume, 1982, Chicago: University of Chicago Press: pp 75-90.
177. Capital Taxation, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983.
178. "Inflation and the American Economy," The Public Interest, No. 67, Spring 1982.
179. "Pension Funding Decisions, Interest Rate Assumptions and Share Prices," (with Randall Morck), in Financial Aspects of the U.S. Pension System, Zvi Bodie and John Shoven (eds.), Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 1983.
180. Inflation, Tax Rules and Capital Formation, University of Chicago Press, 1983.
181. "Should Private Pensions Be Indexed?" in Financial Aspects of the U.S. Pension System, Zvi Bodie and John Shoven (eds.), NBER Conference Volume, Chicago: University of Chicago Press: 1983, pp 177-207 and 209-210.
182. "Has the Rate of Investment Fallen?" Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 65, No. 1, February 1983, pp 144-149.
183. "The Conceptual Foundations of Supply Side Economics," in Supply Side Economics in the 1980's, proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and the Emory University Law and Economics Center, March 18, 1982.
184. "Domestic Saving and International Capital Movements in the Long Run and the Short Run," European Economic Review, No. 21 (1-2), 1983, pp 129-151.
185. "The Fiscal Framework of Monetary Policy," Economic Inquiry, 21(1), January 1983, pp 11-23.
186. "The Effects of Taxation on the Selling of Corporate Stock and the Realization of Capital Gains: Reply," (with Joel Slemrod and Shlomo Yitzhaki), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 94(4), 1980, pp 777-791.
187. "Unemployment Insurance and Reservation Wages," (with James Poterba), Journal of Public Economics, 23(1-2), February-March 1984, pp 141-167.
188. "The Optimal Level of Social Security Benefits," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 10(2), May 1985, pp 303-320.
189. "Why the Dollar Is Strong," Challenge, 26(6), Febuary 1984, pp 37-41.
190. "Public Education: Reply," American Economic Review, Vol. 74, No. 4, September 1984, pp 820-821.
191. "The International Debt Problem: From Crisis to Renewed Growth," Challenge, 27(3), July-August 1984, pp 27-30.
192. "International Debt Policy," World Affairs Journal, Vol. 3, No. 1, Winter 1984.
193. "The Welfare Cost of Social Security's Impact on Private Saving," pp. 1-13 in Modern Developments in Public Finance: Essays in Honor of Arnold Harberger, M. Boskin (ed.), Oxford, England: Basil Blackwell, 1987, pp 1-13.
194. "Debt and Taxes in the Theory of Public Finance," Journal of Public Economics, 28(2), November 1985, pp 233-245.
195. "American Economic Policy and the World Economy," Foreign Affairs, 63(5), Summer 1985, pp 995-1008.
196. Handbook of Public Economics, Vol. I , (edited with Alan Auerbach) Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1985.
197. "Tax Rates and Business Investment: Reply", Journal of Public Economics, 32(2), April 1987, pp 389-396.
198. "U.S. Budget Deficits and the European Economies: Resolving the Political Economy Puzzle", American Economic Review, 76(2), May 1986, pp 342-346.
199. "Supply Side Economics: Old Truths and New Claims", American Economic Review, 76(2), May 1986, pp 26-30.
200. "The Social Security Explosion", The Public Interest, No. 81, Fall 1985.
201. "The Effects of Tax Rules on Nonresidential Fixed Investment: Some Preliminary Evidence from the 1980's" (with Joosung Jun) forthcoming in M. Feldstein (ed.), The Effects of Taxation on Capital Accumulation, University of Chicago Press, 1987.
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