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Fiscal Policy and Finance

“[The Contributions of ]James M. Poterba (1958 - ).” Forthcoming in Robert A. Cord (ed.) The Palgrave Companion to MIT Economics. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

“Corporate Social Responsibility and Voting over Public Goods,” Global Finance Journal, 60 (May 2024), 100940. (with Sophie Wang)

“The Survey of Consumer Finances at Forty: Reflections from an Early User.” American Statistical Association Joint Statistical Meetings 2023 (September 2023), Toronto, Ontario, Canada. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8311674

“Effects of Income Tax Changes on Economic Growth,” in Alan J. Auerbach and Kent Smetters (eds.) The Economics of Tax Policy Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, 13 - 39. (with William G. Gale) [Manuscript] [Webcast of Tax Policy Center Event, September 9, 2014]

“Policy Forum: A Decade of Reckoning -- Fiscal Challenges in the United States," Canadian Tax Journal 61:2 (2013), 413-424.

“Moral Hazard in the Policy Response to the 2008 Financial Market Meltdown,” Cato Journal 29 (Winter 2009), 131-139.

“Taxation and Household Portfolio Composition: U.S. Evidence from the 1980s and 1990s,” Journal of Public Economics 87 (January 2003), 5-38. (with James Poterba) [NBER Working Paper 7392]

“Portfolio Allocations Over the Life Cycle,” in Seiritsu Ogura, Toshiaki Tachibanaki, and A. David Wise (eds.) Aging Issues in the United States and Japan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001, 65-103 (with James Poterba). [NBER Working Paper 6185]

“Portfolio Responses to Taxation: Evidence from the End of the Rainbow.” in Joel Slemrod (ed.) Does Atlas Shrug? The Economic Consequences of Taxing the Rich.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000, 289-323. [Manuscript]

“Tax Reform and Target Saving,” National Tax Journal 51 (September 1998), 621-635. [NBER Working Paper 6640]

“Household Portfolio Structure: Taxation and Other Factors.” National Tax Association Proceedings - 1996, 391-401. (with James Poterba)

“Tax Shelters and Passive Losses after the Tax Reform Act of 1986,” in Martin S. Feldstein and James M. Poterba (eds.) Empirical Foundations of Household TaxationChicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996, 193-226. [NBER Working Paper 5171]

“Stock Ownership Patterns, Stock Market Fluctuations, and Consumption,” in William C. Brainard and George L. Perry (eds.) Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2:1995, 295-372. (with James Poterba)