Laurence J Kotlikoff

Latest Institution: Boston University

All Institutions: National Bureau of Economic Research; Yale University; Boston University; NA; MIT; Stanford University; Harvard University; The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; University of California, Berkeley; Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for the Aged; University of Zurich; Universität Freiburg; Ulm University; NBER; Inter-American Development Bank; The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland


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Based on the Following Papers:

The Role of Intergenerational Transfers in Aggregate Capital Accumulation

Year: 1980
Journal: Journal of Political Economy
Authors: Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Lawrence Summers

An Examination of Empirical Tests of Social Security and Savings

Year: 1981
Journal: Empirica
Authors: Alan J. Auerbach; Laurence J. Kotlikoff

National Savings, Economic Welfare, and the Structure of Taxation

Year: 1981
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alan J. Auerbach; Laurence J. Kotlikoff

The International Economics of Transitional Growth: The Case of the United States

Year: 1981
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Edward E. Learner; Jeffrey Sachs

The Efficiency Gains from Dynamic Tax Reform

Year: 1981
Journal: International Economic Review
Authors: Alan J. Auerbach; Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Jonathan Skinner

The Economic Effects of Government Expenditures

Year: 1982
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Investment versus Savings Incentives: The Size of the Bang for the Buck and the Potential for Self-Financing Business Tax Cuts

Year: 1982
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Alan J. Auerbach; Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Annuity Markets, Savings, and the Capital Stock

Year: 1983
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Laurence J. Kotlikoff; John B. Shoven; Avia Spivak

Labor Compensation and the Structure of Private Pension Plans: Evidence for Contractual versus Spot Labor Markets

Year: 1984
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: David A. Wise; Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Taxation and Savings: A Neoclassical Perspective

Year: 1984
Journal: Journal of Economic Literature
Authors: Laurence J. Kotlikoff

The Impact of Annuity Insurance on Savings and Inequality

Year: 1984
Journal: Journal of Labor Economics
Authors: Laurence J. Kotlikoff; John Shoven; Avia Spivak

Looking for the News in the Noise: Additional Stochastic Implications of Optimal Consumption Choice

Year: 1984
Journal: Annals of Economics and Statistics
Authors: Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Ariel Pakes

Simulating Alternative Social Security Responses to the Demographic Transition

Year: 1984
Journal: National Tax Journal
Authors: Alan J. Auerbach; Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Empirical Tests of Alternative Models of International Growth

Year: 1984
Journal: Empirica
Authors: Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Edward E. Learner

The Incentive Effects of Private Pension Plans

Year: 1984
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Laurence J. Kotlikoff; David A. Wise

Life Insurance of the Elderly: Adequacy and Determinants

Year: 1985
Journal: Journal of Financial Intermediation
Authors: Alan J. Auerbach; Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Changes in the Age Distribution of Income in the United States, 1968-1984

Year: 1985
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Michael J. Boskin; Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Michael Knetter

The Efficiency Gains from Social Security Benefit-Tax Linkage

Year: 1985
Journal: International Economic Review
Authors: Alan J. Auerbach; Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Public Debt and US Saving: A New Test of the Neutrality Hypothesis

Year: 1985
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Michael J. Boskin; Laurence J. Kotlikoff

The Contribution of Intergenerational Transfers to Total Wealth: A Reply

Year: 1986
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Lawrence H. Summers

Social Security: A Financial Appraisal Across and Within Generations

Year: 1986
Journal: National Tax Journal
Authors: Michael J. Boskin; Douglas J. Puffert; Laurence J. Kotlikoff; John B. Shoven

Health Expenditures and Precautionary Savings

Year: 1986
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Is Debt Neutral in the Life Cycle Model

Year: 1986
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Laws as Assets: A Possible Solution to the Time Consistency Problem

Year: 1986
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Torsten Persson; Lars E. O. Svensson

Can People Compute? An Experimental Test of the Life Cycle Consumption Model

Year: 1987
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Stephen Johnson; Laurence J. Kotlikoff; William Samuelson

Intergenerational Transfers and Savings

Year: 1987
Journal: Journal of Economic Perspectives
Authors: Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Employee Retirement and a Firm's Pension Plan

Year: 1987
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Laurence J. Kotlikoff; David A. Wise

Pension Backloading, Wage Taxes, and Work Disincentives

Year: 1987
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Laurence J. Kotlikoff; David A. Wise

The Incidence and Efficiency Costs of Corporate Taxation When Corporate and Noncorporate Firms Produce the Same Good

Year: 1987
Journal: Journal of Political Economy
Authors: Jane G. Gravelle; Laurence J. Kotlikoff

How Much Care Do the Aged Receive from Their Children? A Bimodal Picture of Contact and Assistance

Year: 1987
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Laurence J. Kotlikoff; John Morris

Does the Consumption of Different Age Groups Move Together? A New Nonparametric Test of Intergenerational Altruism

Year: 1988
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Andrew Abel; Laurence J. Kotlikoff

A Strategic Altruism Model in Which Ricardian Equivalence Does Not Hold

Year: 1988
Journal: Economic Journal
Authors: Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Assaf Razin; Robert W. Rosenthal

Does the Harberger Model Greatly Understate the Excess Burden of the Corporate Tax? Another Model Says Yes

Year: 1988
Journal: Economic Inquiry
Authors: Jane C. Gravelle; Laurence J. Kotlikoff

The Dynamics of Living Arrangements of the Elderly

Year: 1988
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Axel Boerschsupan; Laurence J. Kotlikoff; John N. Morris

Making Bequests Without Spoiling Children: Bequests as an Implicit Optimal Tax Structure and the Possibility that Altruistic Bequests are Not Equalizing

Year: 1988
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Assaf Razin

Why Don't the Elderly Live with Their Children? A New Look

Year: 1988
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Laurence J. Kotlikoff; John Morris

Demographics, Fiscal Policy, and US Saving in the 1980s and Beyond

Year: 1989
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alan J. Auerbach; Laurence J. Kotlikoff

The Dynamics of an Aging Population: The Case of Four OECD Countries

Year: 1989
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alan J. Auerbach; Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Robert Hagemann; Giuseppe Nicoletti

From Deficit Delusion to the Fiscal Balance Rule: Looking for an Economically Meaningful Way to Assess Fiscal Policy

Year: 1989
Journal: Economica
Authors: Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Corporate Taxation and the Efficiency Gains of the 1986 Tax Reform Act

Year: 1989
Journal: Journal of Economic Perspectives
Authors: Jane C. Gravelle; Laurence J. Kotlikoff

How Rational is the Purchase of Life Insurance

Year: 1989
Journal: Journal of Financial Intermediation
Authors: Alan J. Auerbach; Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Health, Children, and Elderly Living Arrangements: A Multiperiod Multinomial Probit Model with Unobserved Heterogeneity and Autocorrelated Errors

Year: 1990
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Axel Boersch-Supan; Vassilis Hajivassiliou; Laurence J. Kotlikoff; John N. Morris

Some Inefficiency Implications of Generational Politics and Exchange

Year: 1990
Journal: Economics and Politics
Authors: Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Robert W. Rosenthal

The Provision of Time to the Elderly by Their Children

Year: 1990
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Axel Boersch-Supan; Jagadeesh Gokhale; Laurence J. Kotlikoff; John Morris

Generational Accounts: A Meaningful Alternative to Deficit Accounting

Year: 1991
Journal: Journal of Economic Perspectives
Authors: Alan J. Auerbach; Jagadeesh Gokhale; Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Simulating the Transmission of Wealth Inequality via Bequests

Year: 1999
Journal: Journal of Public Economics
Authors: Jagadeesh Gokhale; Laurence J. Kotlikoff; James Sefton; Martin Weale

Social Security's Treatment of Postwar Americans: How Bad Can It Get?

Year: 1999
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Jagadeesh Gokhale; Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Comparing the Economic and Conventional Approaches to Financial Planning

Year: 1999
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Jagadeesh Gokhale; Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Mark J. Warshawsky

The Adequacy of Life Insurance: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Survey

Year: 1999
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: B. Douglas Bernheim; Lorenzo Forni; Jagadeesh Gokhale; Laurence J. Kotlikoff

The Mismatch Between Life Insurance Holdings and Financial Vulnerabilities: Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances

Year: 2001
Journal: Economic Inquiry
Authors: B. Douglas Bernheim; Katherine Grace Carman; Jagadeesh Gokhale; Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Intertemporal State Budgeting

Year: 2002
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Bruce Baker; Daniel Besendorfer; Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Does It Pay to Work?

Year: 2002
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Jagadeesh Gokhale; Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Alexi Sluchynsky

The Impact on Consumption and Saving of Current and Future Fiscal Policies

Year: 2003
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Katherine Grace Carman; Jagadeesh Gokhale; Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Assessing the Economic Gains from Telecom Competition

Year: 2004
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Richard N. Clarke; Kevin A. Hassett; Zoya Ivanova; Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Who's Going Broke? Comparing Healthcare Costs in Ten OECD Countries

Year: 2005
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Christian Hagist; Laurence J. Kotlikoff

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

Year: 2005
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Hans Fehr; Sabine Jokisch; Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Comparing Average and Marginal Tax Rates Under the FairTax and the Current System of Federal Taxation

Year: 2005
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Laurence J. Kotlikoff; David Rapson

Simulating the Dynamic Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Effects of the FairTax

Year: 2005
Journal: National Tax Journal
Authors: Sabine Jokisch; Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Americans' Dependency on Social Security

Year: 2006
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Ben Marx; Pietro Rizza

Taxing Sales Under the Fair Tax: What Rate Works?

Year: 2006
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Paul Bachman; Jonathan Haughton; Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Alfonso Sanchez-Penalver; David G. Tuerck

Does It Pay at the Margin to Work and Save? Measuring Effective Marginal Taxes on Americans' Labor Supply and Saving

Year: 2006
Journal: Margin
Authors: Laurence J. Kotlikoff; David Rapson

On the General Relativity of Fiscal Language

Year: 2006
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Jerry Green; Laurence J. Kotlikoff

The Excess Burden of Government Indecision

Year: 2007
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Francisco J. Gomes; Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Luis M. Viceira

To Roth or Not: That is the Question

Year: 2008
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Ben Marx; David Rapson

The True Cost of Social Security

Year: 2008
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alexander W. Blocker; Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Stephen A. Ross

Why Aren't Developed Countries Saving?

Year: 2008
Journal: European Economic Review
Authors: Loretti I. Dobrescu; Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Alberto F. Motta

Dynamic Globalization and Its Potentially Alarming Prospects for Low-Wage Workers

Year: 2008
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Hans Fehr; Sabine Jokisch; Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Optimal Lifecycle Investing with Flexible Labor Supply: A Welfare Analysis of Lifecycle Funds

Year: 2008
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Francisco J. Gomes; Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Luis M. Viceira

What Does the Corporate Income Tax Tax? A Simple Model Without Capital

Year: 2010
Journal: Annals of Economics and Finance
Authors: Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Jianjun Miao

Game Over: Simulating Unsustainable Fiscal Policy

Year: 2012
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Richard W. Evans; Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Kerk L. Phillips

Smart Machines and Longterm Misery

Year: 2012
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Jeffrey D. Sachs; Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Russia's Fiscal Gap

Year: 2013
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Eugene Goryunov; Maria Kazakova; Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Arseny Mamedov; Kristina Nesterova; Vladimir Nazarov; Elena Grishina; Pavel Trunin; Alexey Shpenev

Generational Risk: Is It a Big Deal? Simulating an 80-Period OLG Model with Aggregate Shocks

Year: 2013
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Jasmina Hasanhodzic; Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Simulating the Elimination of the US Corporate Income Tax

Year: 2013
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Hans Fehr; Sabine Jokisch; Ashwin Kambhampati; Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Robots Are Us: Some Economics of Human Replacement

Year: 2015
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Seth G. Benzell; Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Guillermo Lagarda; Jeffrey D. Sachs

Simulating Russia's and Other Large Economies' Challenging and Interconnected Transitions

Year: 2015
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Seth G. Benzell; Eugene Goryunov; Maria Kazakova; Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Guillermo Lagarda; Kristina Nesterova; Andrey Zubarev

US Inequality and Fiscal Progressivity: An Intragenerational Accounting

Year: 2016
Journal: Journal of Political Economy
Authors: Alan J. Auerbach; Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Darryl R. Koehler

Is Uncle Sam Inducing the Elderly to Retire?

Year: 2016
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Alan J. Auerbach; Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Darryl R. Koehler; Manni Yu

Will the Paris Accord Accelerate Climate Change?

Year: 2016
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Andrey Polbin; Andrey Zubarev

Simulating Business Cash Flow Taxation

Year: 2017
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Seth G. Benzell; Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Guillermo Lagarda; Victor Yifan Ye

Valuing Government Obligations When Markets Are Incomplete

Year: 2017
Journal: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
Authors: Jasmina Hasanhodzic; Laurence J. Kotlikoff

The Big Con: Reassessing the Great Recession and Its Fix

Year: 2018
Journal: Acta Oeconomica
Authors: Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Banks as Potentially Crooked Secretkeepers

Year: 2018
Journal: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
Authors: Timothy Jackson; Laurence J Kotlikoff

Did the 2017 Tax Reform Discriminate Against Blue State Voters?

Year: 2019
Journal: National Tax Journal
Authors: David Altig; Alan J. Auerbach; Patrick C. Higgins; Darryl R. Koehler; Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Michael Leiseca; Ellyn Terry; Yifan Ye

Making Carbon Taxation a Generational Win-Win

Year: 2019
Journal: International Economic Review
Authors: Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Felix Kubler; Andrey Polbin; Jeffrey D. Sachs; Simon Scheidegger

Pareto-improving Carbon-risk Taxation

Year: 2020
Journal: Economic Policy
Authors: Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Felix Kübler; Andrey Polbin; Simon Scheidegger

The Marginal Net Taxation of Americans' Labor Supply

Year: 2020
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: David Altig; Alan J. Auerbach; Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Elias Ilin; Victor Ye

Deficit Follies

Year: 2021
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Johannes Brumm; Xiangyu Feng; Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Felix Kubler

Can Today’s and Tomorrow’s World Uniformly Gain from Carbon Taxation?

Year: 2021
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Felix Kübler; Andrey Polbin; Simon Scheidegger

When Interest Rates Go Low, Should Public Debt Go High?

Year: 2021
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Johannes Brumm; Xiangyu Feng; Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Felix Kübler

Simulating Endogenous Global Automation

Year: 2021
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Seth G. Benzell; Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Guillermo Lagarda; Victor Yifan Ye

Is Our Fiscal System Discouraging Marriage? A New Look at the Marriage Tax

Year: 2022
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Elias Ilin; Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Melinda Pitts

How Much Lifetime Social Security Benefits Are Americans Leaving on the Table?

Year: 2022
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: David Altig; Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Victor Yifan Ye

The Future of Global Economic Power

Year: 2022
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Seth G. Benzell; Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Maria Kazakova; Guillermo Lagarda; Kristina Nesterova; Victor Yifan Ye; Andrey Zubarev


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