Research Articles by Laurence J. Kotlikoff


Title Author(s) Date
Generational Policy and Aging in Closed and Open Dynamic General Equilibrium Models Hans Fehr, Sabine Jokisch, Manuel Kallweit, Fabian Kindermann and Laurence J. Kotlikoff forthcoming, Elsevier, North Holland, 2012
What Does the Corporate Income Tax Tax? A Simple Model Without Capital Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Jianjun Miao 2010-07-12
Interview on Limited Purpose Banking Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2010-06-01
The Intergenerational Conflict – Après le Deluge Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2009-07-04
Back to Basics Laurence J. Kotlikoff and John Goodman 2009-05-14
Biosimilars, Data Exclusivity, and the Incentives for Innovation: Response to Grabowski Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2009-03-17
Fixing Healthcare Before It Fixes Us Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2009-02-01
How Regional Differences in Taxes and Public Goods Distort Life Cycle Location Choices Christian Hagist, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Bernd Raffelheuschen 2009-02-01
Limited Purpose Banking Christophe Chamley, Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2009-01-27
Who’s going broke? Comparing growth in Public Healthcare in ten OECD countries Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Christian Hagist 2009-01-01
Who’s going broke? Comparing Growth in Public Healthcare Christian Hagist, Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2009-01-01
The True Cost of Social Security Alexander Blocker, Stephen A. Ross, and Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2008-11-24
Economic War Calls for Full Plan of Battle Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2008-11-13
Developing Countries Loretti I. Dobrescu, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Alberto F. Motta 2008-11-01
Dynamic Globalization and Its Potentially Alarming Prospects for Low-Wage Workers Hans Fehr, Sabine Jokisch, and Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2008-11-01
Recapitalizing the Banks is not Enough Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Perry Mehrling, and Alistair Milne 2008-10-26
Stimulating Innovation in the Biologics Industry: A Balanced Approach to Marketing Exclusivity Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2008-09-01
Optimal Life-Cycle Investing with Flexible Labor Supply: A Welfare Analysis of Life-Cylce Funds Francisco J. Gomes, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Luis M. Viceira 2008-05-01
Economics’ Approach to Financial Planning Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2008-03-01
Fertility, Mortality and the Developed World’s Demographic Transition Hans Fehr, Sabine Jokisch, Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2008-01-31
The FairTax and Middle Americans Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2008-01-20
Why the Fair Tax Will Work – Bartlett’s Unfair Attack on the FairTax Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2008-01-09
Pension Reform as the Triumph of Form over Substance Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2008-01-01
To Roth or Not-- That is the Question Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Ben Marx, and David Rapson 2008-01-01
On the General Relativity of Fiscal Language Jerry Green and Laurence J. Kotikoff 2008-01-01
Does It Pay, at the Margin, to Work and Save? Measuring Effective Marginal Taxes on Americans' Labor Supply and Saving Laurence J. Kotlikoff, David Rapson 2008-01-01
Optimal Life-Cycle Investing with Flexible Labor Supply: A Welfare Analysis of Life-Cycle Funds Francisco J. Gomes, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Luis M. Viceira 2007-12-14
Simulating the Dynamic Macroeconomic Effects of the Fair Tax Sabine Jokisch, Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2007-06-01
Simulating the Dynamic Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Effects of the Fairtax Sabine Jokisch and Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2007-04-01
Is the US Bankrupt? Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2007-03-01
Averting America's Bankruptcy with a New New Deal Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2007-03-01
Will China Eat Our Lunch or Take Us to Dinner? Hans Fehr, Sabine Jokisch, Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2007-03-01
Mitigating America's Demographic Dilemma by Pre-funding Social Security Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Kent Smetters, Jan Walliser 2007-03-01
Taxing Sales Under the FairTax: What Rate Works? Paul Bachman, Jonathan Haughton,Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Alfonso Sanchez-Penalver, David G. Tuerck 2006-11-13
Americans' Dependency on Social Security Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Ben Marx, and Pietro Rizza 2006-10-01
Comparing Average and Marginal Tax Rates under the FairTax and the Current System of Federal Taxation Laurence J. Kotlikoff and David Rapson 2006-10-01
Saving and Life Insurance Holdings at Boston University B. Douglas Bernheim, Solange Berstein, Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2006-10-01
Big Ideas: Pay Now or Pay Later Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2006-09-01
The Excess Burden of Government Indecision Francisco J. Gomes, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Luis M. Viceira 2006-07-24
Health Care Spending: What the Future Will Look Like Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Christian Hagist 2006-05-01
Is Conventional Financial Planning Good for Your Financial Health? Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2006-01-01
Paul Samuleson's Amazing Intergenerational Transfer Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2006-01-01
Grading the President’s Tax Reform Panel’s Plan Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2005-11-12
Deficit Delusion Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2004-08-01
The Role of Immigration in Dealing with the Developed World's Demographic Transition Hans Fehr, Sabine Jokisch, Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2004-01-01
Are Life Insurance Holdings Related to Financial Vulnerabilities? B. Douglas Bernheim, Kathrine Grace Carman, Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2003-10-01
Who Gets Paid to Save? Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2003-06-01
The Mismatch Between Life Insurance Holdings and Financial Vulnerabilties B. Douglas Bernheim, Jagadeesh Gokhale, Lorenzo Forni, and Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2003-03-01
On the Broadband Mess Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2003-01-01
Natural Monopoly and the Definition of “Impairment Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2003-01-01
Who Gets Paid to Save? Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2003-01-01
Does It Pay to Work? Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Alexander Sluchynsky 2002-11-01
The Role of Competition in Stimulating Telecom Investment Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2002-10-01
The Adequacy of Life Insurance Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2002-06-01
Intertemporal State Budgeting Bruce Baker, Daniel Besendorfer, Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2002-06-01
Simulating the Transmission of Wealth Inequality Jagdeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2002-05-01
Does Saving in a 401(k) Raise Your Lifetime Taxes? Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Todd Neumann 2001-05-01
Simulating the Transmission of Wealth Inequality via Bequests Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, James Sefton, Martin Weale 2001-01-01
Simulating the Transmission of Wealth Inequality via Bequests Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2001-01-01
Simulating Fundamental Tax Reform in the U.S. David Altig, Alan Auerbach, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Kent Smetters, Jan Walliser 2001-01-01
Generational Policy Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2001-01-01
Comparing the Economic and Conventional Approaches to Financial Planning Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Mark Warshawsky 2001-01-01
Can People Compute? An Experimental Test of the Life Cycle Consumption Model Stephen Johnson, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, William Samuelson 2001-01-01
Generational Accounting in the UK Robert Cardarelli, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, James Sefton 2000-11-01
The Baby Boomers' Mega-Inheritance--Myth or Reality? Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Jagadeesh Gokhale 2000-10-01
How Much Should Americans Be Saving for Retirement? B. Douglas Bernheim, Lorenzo Forni, Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, 2000-05-01
The Degeneration of EMU Niall Ferguson and Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2000-03-01
The Right and Wrong Ways to Reform Pensions in Russia Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2000-01-01
Distributional Effects in a General Equilibrium Analysis of Social Security Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Kent Smetters, and Jan Walliser 2000-01-01
Social Security's Treatment of Postwar Americans -- How Bad Can it Get Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Jagadeesh Gokhale 2000-01-01
The World Bank's Approach and the Right Approach to Pension Reform Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1999-08-01
Privatizing Social Security in the US: Comparing the Options Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Kent A. Smetters, Jan Walliser 1999-07-01
Generational Accounting Around the Globe Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Bernd Raffelheuschen 1999-05-01
Social Security's Treatment of Postwar Americans Steven Caidwell, Melissa Favreault, Alla Gantman, Jagadeesh Gokhale, Thomas Johnson, Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1999-01-01
Privatizing Social Security the Right Way Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1998-06-03
Social Security: Privatization and Progressivity Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Kent Smetters, Jan Walliser 1998-05-01
The Personal Security System: A Framework for Reforming Social Security Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1998-04-01
The Personal Security System: A Framework for Reforming Social Security Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Jeffrey Sachs 1998-03-01
Assessing Fundamental Tax Reform David Altig, Alan J. Auerbach,Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Kent A. Smetters, and Jan Walliser 1998-01-15
Parental Altruism and Inter Vivos Transfers: Theory and Evidence Joseph G. Altonji, Fumio Hyashi, and Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1997-12-01
Reply to Diamond's and Cutler's Reviews of Generational Accounting Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1997-06-01
Generational Accounting in New Zealand: Is There Generational Balance? Alan J. Auerbach, Bruce Baker, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Jan Walliser 1997-01-01
Generational Accounting Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1996-09-01
Risk-Sharing Between and Within Families Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Joseph Altonji and Fumio Hayashi 1996-03-01
Restoring Generational Balance in Canada Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Philip Oreopoulos 1996-02-01
Generational Accounting in General Equilibrium Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Hans Fehrs 1996-01-01
Understanding the Postwar Decline in U.S. Savings: a Cohort Analysis Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Jagadeesh Gokhale and John Sabelhaus 1996-01-01
Privatizing Social Security: How It Works and Why It Matters Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1996-01-01
Corporate Taxation and the Efficiency Gains of the 1986 Tax Reform Act Jane Gravelle, Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1995-01-01
Restoring Generational Balance to US Fiscal Policy: What Will It Take? Alan Auerbach,Jagadesh Gokhale,Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1995-01-01
The 1995 Budget and Health Care Reform: A Generational Perspective Alan J. Auerbach, Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1995-01-01
Generational Accounting: A Meaningful Way to Assess Generational Policy Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Alan Auerbach and Jagadeesh Gokhale 1994-12-01
Passing the Generational Buck Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1994-10-01
A Critical Review of Social Insurance Analysis by Multilateral Lending Institutions Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1994-06-01
Intergenerational Altruism and the Effectiveness of Fiscal Policy: New Tests Based on Cohort Data Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Andy Abel 1994-01-01
Corporate Tax Incidence and Inefficiency when Corporate and Noncorporate Goods are Close Substitutes Jane Gravelle, Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1993-10-01
Some Inefficiency Implications of Generational Politics and Exchange Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Robert W. Rosenthal 1993-03-01
From Deficit Delusion to the Fiscal Balance Rule - Looking for a Sensible Way to Measure Fiscal Policy Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1993-01-01
Generational Accounts and Lifetime Tax Rates, 1900-1991 Alan J. Auerbach, Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1993-01-01
Is the Extended Family Altruistically Linked? Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Joe Altonji and Fumio Hayashi 1992-12-01
Estimating the Age-Productivity Profile Using Lifetime Earnings Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Jagadeesh Gokhale 1992-11-01
Estimating a Firm's Age-Productivity Profile using the Present Value of Workers' Earnings Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1992-11-01
Generational Accounting - A New Approach to Understanding the Effects of Fiscal Policy on Saving Alan J. Auerbach, Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1992-01-01
Social Security and Medicare Policy from the Perspective of Generational Accounting Alan J. Auerbach, Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1992-01-01
How Regional Differences in Taxes and Public Goods Distort Life Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Bernd Raffelheuschen 1991-01-01
The Adequacy of Life Insurance Purchases Alan J. Auerbach, Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1991-01-01
US Demographics and Saving: Predictions of Three Saving Models Alan J. Auerbach, Jinyong Cai, Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1991-01-01
Generational Accounts: A Meaningful Alternative to Deficit Accounting Alan J. Auerbach, Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1991-01-01
A Strategic Altruism Model in Which Ricardian Equivalence Does Not Hold Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Assaf Razin, Robert Rosenthal 1990-12-01
The Crisis in US Saving and Proposals to Address the Crisis Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1990-08-01
Demographics, Fiscal Policy, and US Saving in the 1980's and Beyond Alan J. Auerbach, Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1990-01-01
The Incidence and Efficiency Costs of Corporate Taxation when Corporate and NonCorporate Firms Produce the Same Goods Jane G. Gravelle, Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1989-08-01
Deficit Thinking Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1989-06-01
On the Contribution of Economics to the Evaluation and Formation of Social Insurance Policy Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1989-05-01
The Economics of Aging Populations: The Case of Four OECD Economies Alan Auerbach, Robert Haggerman, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Giuseppe Nicoletti 1989-04-01
Social Contracts as Assets: A Possible Solution to the Time Consistency Problem Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Thorsten Persson, Lars Svensson 1988-09-01
The Deficit is Not a Meaningful Measure of Fiscal Policy Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1988-09-01
What Micro Economics Teaches Us About the Dynamic Macro Effects of Fiscal Policy Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1988-08-01
Consumption, Computation Mistakes, and Fiscal Policy Laurence J. Kotlikoff with William Samuelson 1988-05-01
The Case for the Value-Added Tax Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1988-04-11
Intergenerational Transfers and Savings Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1988-04-01
Looking for the News in the Noise Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Ariel Pakes 1988-01-01
Pension Backloading, Wage Taxes, and Work Disincentives Laurence J. Kotlikoff, David Wise 1988-01-01
Evaluating Fiscal Policy with a Dynamic Simulation Model Alan J. Auerbach, Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1987-05-01
Justifying Public Provision of Social Security Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1987-03-01
Social Security: A Financial Analysis Within and Across Generations Michael Boskin, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Douglas Puffert, John Shoven 1987-03-01
The A-K OLG Model: Its Past, Present, and Future Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1987-01-01
Tax Incidence Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Lawerence H. Summers 1987-01-01
Dynamic Fiscal Policy Alan J. Auerbach, Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1987-01-01
The Effect of Annuity Insurance on Savings and Equality Laurence J. Kotlikoff with John Shoven and Avia Spivak 1986-01-01
Public Debt and U.S. Saving: A New Test of the Neutrality Hypothesis Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Michael Boskin 1985-09-01
Simulating Alternative Social Security Responses to the Demographic Transistion Alan J. Auerbach, Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1985-06-01
Economic Impact of Deficit Financing Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1984-09-01
Taxation and Savings: A Neoclassical Perspective Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1984-01-01
National Savings and Economic Policy: The Efficacy of Investment versus Savings Incentives Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1983-05-01
Investment Incentives Savings Versus: The Size of the Bang for the Buck and the Potential Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Alan Auerbach 1983-01-01
The Efficiency Gains from Dynamic Tax Reform Alan J. Auerbach, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Jonathan Skinner 1983-01-01
National Savings, Economic Welfare, and the Structure of Taxation Alan, J. Auerbach, Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1983-01-01
The Adequacy of Savings Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Avia Spivak and Laurence H. Summers 1982-01-01
The Family as an Incomplete Annuities Market Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Avia Spivak 1981-01-01
The Role of Intergeneration Transfers in Aggregate Capital Accumulation Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Lawrence H. Summers 1981-01-01
The Manumission of Slaves in New Orleans, 1827-1846 Laurence J. Kotlikoff with Anton J. Rupert 1980-01-01
Tax Incidence in a Life Cycle Model with Variable Labor Supply Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Lawrence Summers 1979-11-01
Social Secuity and Equilibrium Capital Intensity Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1979-05-01
Testing the Theory of Social Security and Life Cycle Accumulation Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1979-01-01
The Structure of Slave Prices in New Orleans Laurence J. Kotlikoff 1979-01-01
Comment: The Incidence of a Tax on Pure Rent: A New Reason for an Old Answer Guillermo Calvo, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Carlos Alfredo Rodriguez 1979-01-01
The Old South's Stake in the Inter-Regional Movement of the Slaves, 1850- 1860 Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Sebastian Pinera 1977-06-01