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Public Economics

National Budget, Deficit, and Debt


2009
w15303 Carlo Favero
Francesco Giavazzi

How large are the effects of tax changes?

w15269 Eric M. Leeper
Anchoring Fiscal Expectations

w15028 Farley Grubb
Land Policy: Founding Choices and Outcomes, 1781-1802


2008
w14551 Andrew Mountford
Harald Uhlig

What are the Effects of Fiscal Policy Shocks?

w14427 Alexander W. Blocker
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Stephen A. Ross

The True Cost of Social Security

w14417 Ricardo J. Caballero
Pierre Yared

Future Rent-Seeking and Current Public Savings

w14343 Robert Novy-Marx
Joshua D. Rauh

The Intergenerational Transfer of Public Pension Promises

w14288 Alan J. Auerbach
Federal Budget Rules: The US Experience

w14267 Farley Grubb
The Distribution of Congressional Spending During the American Revolution, 1775-1780: The Problem of Geographic Balance

w14087 Robin Greenwood
Samuel Hanson
Jeremy C. Stein

A Gap-Filling Theory of Corporate Debt Maturity Choice

w14047 Marco Battaglini
Stephen Coate

Fiscal Policy over the Real Business Cycle: A Positive Theory

w13806 Robin Greenwood
Dimitri Vayanos

Bond Supply and Excess Bond Returns

w13779 Ricardo J. Caballero
Pierre Yared

Inflating the Beast: Political Incentives Under Uncertainty

w13725 Eli Berman
David D. Laitin

Religion, Terrorism and Public Goods: Testing the Club Model


2007
w13548 Christina D. Romer
David H. Romer

Do Tax Cuts Starve the Beast: The Effect of Tax Changes on Government Spending

w13390 Emmanuel Farhi
Capital Taxation and Ownership when Markets are Incomplete

w13353 Mark Aguiar
Manuel Amador
Gita Gopinath

Investment Cycles and Sovereign Debt Overhang

w13255 Christian Broda
David E. Weinstein

Defining Price Stability in Japan: A View from America

w13200 Marco Bassetto
Vadym Lepetyuk

Government Investment and the European Stability and Growth Pact

w13131 Laura Alfaro
Fabio Kanczuk

Nominal versus Indexed Debt: A Quantitative Horse Race

w13119 Laura Alfaro
Fabio Kanczuk

Debt Maturity: Is Long-Term Debt Optimal?

w12947 Enrique G. Mendoza
Jonathan D. Ostry

International Evidence on Fiscal Solvency: Is Fiscal Policy "Responsible"?

w12919 Willem H. Buiter
Seigniorage

w12859 Francisco J. Gomes
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Luis M. Viceira

The Excess Burden of Government Indecision

w12822 Carlo Favero
Francesco Giavazzi

Debt and the Effects of Fiscal Policy


2006
w12586 Enrique G. Mendoza
P. Marcelo Oviedo

Fiscal Policy and Macroeconomic Uncertainty in Developing Countries: The Tale of the Tormented Insurer

w12357 Takero Doi
Toshihiro Ihori
Kiyoshi Mitsui

Sustainability, Debt Management, and Public Debt Policy in Japan

w12344 Jerry Green
Laurence J. Kotlikoff

On the General Relativity of Fiscal Language

w12332 Gene M. Grossman
Elhanan Helpman

Separation of Powers and the Budget Process

w12302 Wilson Au-Yeung
Jason McDonald
Amanda Sayegh

Australian Government Balance Sheet Management

w12265 Young Jun Chun
Population Aging, Fiscal Policies, and National Saving: Predictions for Korean Economy

w12103 Eric M. Leeper
Shu-Chun Susan Yang

Dynamic Scoring: Alternative Financing Schemes

w12100 Marco Battaglini
Stephen Coate

A Dynamic Theory of Public Spending, Taxation and Debt

w12073 Erik Snowberg
Justin Wolfers
Eric Zitzewitz

Partisan Impacts on the Economy: Evidence from Prediction Markets and Close Elections


2005
w11868 Farley Grubb
The Net Asset Position of the U.S. National Government, 1784-1802: Hamilton's Blessing or the Spoils of War?

w11862 Adi Brender
Allan Drazen

How Do Budget Deficits and Economic Growth Affect Reelection Prospects? Evidence from a Large Cross-Section of Countries

w11668 Hans Fehr
Sabine Jokisch
Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Will China Eat Our Lunch or Take Us Out to Dinner? Simulating the Transition Paths of the U.S., EU, Japan, and China

w11060 Jagadeesh Gokhale
Kent Smetters

Measuring Social Security's Financial Problems

w11030 Marco Bassetto
Thomas Sargent

Politics and Efficiency of Separating Capital and Ordinary Government Budgets


2004
w11000 N. Gregory Mankiw
Matthew Weinzierl

Dynamic Scoring: A Back-of-the-Envelope Guide

w10988 Christian Broda
David E. Weinstein

Happy News from the Dismal Science: Reassessing the Japanese Fiscal Policy and Sustainability

w10931 Ann Dryden Witte
Marisol Trowbridge

The Structure of Early Care and Education in the United States: Historical Evolution and International Comparisons

w10903 Craig Burnside
Domenico Fanizza

Hiccups for HIPCs?

w10788 Silvia Ardagna
Francesco Caselli
Timothy Lane

Fiscal Discipline and the Cost of Public Debt Service: Some Estimates for OECD Countries

w10694 Alan J. Auerbach
Budget Windows, Sunsets, and Fiscal Control

w10394 Francesco Giavazzi
Alessandro Missale

Public Debt Management in Brazil


2003
w10072 Daniel Feenberg
James Poterba

The Alternative Minimum Tax and Effective Marginal Tax Rates

w10040 Casey B. Mulligan
Xavier Sala-i-Martin
Ricard Gil

Do Democracies Have Different Public Policies than Nondemocracies?

w10023 Alan J. Auerbach
Fiscal Policy, Past and Present

w9845 Kent Smetters
Is the Social Security Trust Fund Worth Anything?


2002
w9306 Alan Auerbach
Is There a Role for Discretionary Fiscal Policy?

w9166 John F. Cogan
Olivia S. Mitchell

The Role of Economic Policy in Social Security Reform: Perspectives from the President's Commission

w9132 Alan J. Auerbach
Kevin A. Hassett

Optimal Long-Run Fiscal Policy: Constraints, Preferences and the Resolution of Uncertainty

w9046 Emmanuel Saez
Optimal Progressive Capital Income Taxes in the Infinite Horizon Model


2001
w8646 Alberto Alesina
Ignazio Angeloni
Federico Etro

Institutional Rules for Federations

w8488 Douglas W. Elmendorf
Jeffrey B. Liebman
David W. Wilcox

Fiscal Policy and Social Security Policy During the 1990s

w8163 Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Generational Policy


2000
w7647 Benjamin M. Friedman
What Have We Learned from the Reagan Deficits and Their Disappearance?


1999
w7041 Alan J. Auerbach
Philip Oreopoulos

Generational Accounting and Immigration in the United States

w7036 Alan J. Auerbach
Kevin A. Hassett

Uncertainty and the Design of Long-Run Fiscal Policy


1998
w6522 Willem H. Buiter
Notes on "A Code for Fiscal Stability"

w6470 Douglas W. Elmendorf
N. Gregory Mankiw

Government Debt

w5838 Robert P. Inman
Do Balanced Budget Rules Work? U.S. Experience and Possible Lessons for the EMU


1997
w6341 Mark Hallerberg
Jurgen von Hagen

Electoral Institutions, Cabinet Negotiations, and Budget Deficits in the European Union

w6286 Andres Velasco
Debts and Deficits with Fragmented Fiscal Policymaking

w6239 Douglas A. Irwin
Higher Tariffs, Lower Revenues? Analyzing the Fiscal Aspects of the "Great Tariff Debate of 1888"

w6237 James M. Poterba
Kim S. Rueben

State Fiscal Institutions and the U.S. Municipal Bond Market

w5550 James M. Poterba
Do Budget Rules Work?

w6197 Robert J. Barro
Optimal Management of Indexed and Nominal Debt

w6119 Alan J. Auerbach
Quantifying the Current U.S. Fiscal Imbalance

w5997 Herschel I. Grossman
Taejoon Han

Sovereign Debt and Consumption Smoothing

w5890 Allan Drazen
Towards a Political-Economic Theory of Domestic Debt


1996
w5772 Mats Persson
Torsten Persson
Lars E. O. Svensson

Debt, Cash Flow and Inflation Incentives: A Swedish Example

w5533 Henning Bohn
Robert P. Inman

Balanced Budget Rules and Public Deficits: Evidence from the U.S. States

w5502 Robert J. Barro
Reflections on Ricardian Equivalence

w5449 James M. Poterba
Budget Institutions and Fiscal Policy in the U.S. States


1995
w5009 Alan J. Auerbach
Tax Projections and the Budget: Lessons from the 1980s

w5109 Herschel I. Grossman
American Fiscal Policy in the 1990's


1994
w4709 Alan J. Auerbach
The U.S. Fiscal Problem: Where We Are, How We Got Here and Where We're Going


1993
w3799 Herschel I. Grossman
Taejoon Han

A Theory of War Finance

w4324 Martin Feldstein
Government Spending and Budget Deficits in the 1980s: A Personal View


1992
w4022 Benjamin M. Friedman
Learning From the Reagan Deficits

w3992 Olivier Jean Blanchard
Philippe Weil

Dynamic Efficiency, the Riskless Rate, and Debt Ponzi Games Under Uncertainty


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