Access Statistics for Kent Smetters

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Working Paper File Downloads Abstract Views
Last month 3 months 12 months Total Last month 3 months 12 months Total
A Matter of Trust: Understanding Worldwide Public Pension Conversions 0 0 0 18 1 3 8 72
A Sharper Ratio: A General Measure for Correctly Ranking Non-Normal Investment Risks 0 0 0 41 0 1 14 122
Consumption Taxes and Economic Efficiency in a Stochastic OLG Economy 0 0 3 337 1 9 23 1,172
Controlling the Cost of Minimum Benefit Guarantees in Public Pension Conversions 0 0 0 132 1 5 8 561
Could a Website Really Have Doomed the Health Exchanges? Multiple Equilibria, Initial Conditions and the Construction of the Fine 0 0 0 30 1 2 8 79
Dilution vs. Risk Taking: Capital Gains Taxes and Entrepreneurship 1 1 19 19 1 3 23 23
Does Social Security Privatization Produce Efficiency Gains? 1 1 2 117 3 4 17 373
Does Social Security Privatization Produce Efficiency Gains? 0 0 0 207 0 1 12 695
Dropping Out of Social Security 0 0 0 48 0 1 8 305
Finding a Way Out of America's Demographic Dilemma 0 0 0 234 0 1 6 1,069
Grade Non-Disclosure 0 0 0 42 0 5 16 223
Insuring Against Terrorism: The Policy Challenge 0 0 1 99 1 6 13 400
Is the Social Security Trust Fund Worth Anything? 0 0 0 88 0 5 6 648
Measuring Social Security's Financial Problems 0 0 0 132 0 4 11 570
Measuring Social Security’s Financial Problems 0 0 0 147 0 4 13 1,032
Moral Hazard in Reinsurance Markets 1 1 2 322 2 2 10 991
Narrow Framing and Life Insurance 0 0 0 22 0 3 10 121
Optimal Annuitization with Stochastic Mortality Probabilities 0 0 0 17 0 3 9 64
Optimal Portfolio Choice with Wage-Indexed Social Security 0 0 0 21 0 2 8 107
Opting Out of Social Security and Adverse Selection 0 0 0 264 1 7 19 3,224
Ricardian Equivalence with Incomplete Household Risk Sharing 0 0 0 203 0 3 10 1,101
Simulating U.S. Tax Reform 0 0 0 310 0 6 15 1,598
Simulating U.S. tax reform 0 0 0 219 0 3 8 616
Social Security Privatization with Elastic Labor Supply and Second-Best Taxes 0 0 0 55 0 3 11 218
Social Security Privatization with Elastic Labor Supply and Second-Best Taxes 0 0 0 58 1 3 8 169
Social Security Privatization with Income-Mortality Correlation 0 0 1 77 2 4 15 296
Social Security: Privatization and Progressivity 0 0 0 187 0 1 9 1,095
The (Interesting) Dynamic Properties of the Neoclassical Growth Model with CES Production 0 0 0 228 0 4 11 664
The Coming Generational Storm 0 0 0 60 0 4 13 812
The Equivalence of the Social Security's Trust Fund Portfolio Allocation and Capital Income Tax Policy 0 0 0 43 0 4 14 323
The Exchange Theory of Teenage Smoking and the Counterproductiveness of Moderate Regulation 0 0 0 193 0 4 9 2,572
The Optimal Design of Social Security Benefits 0 0 1 97 2 3 19 279
Thinking About Social Security's Trust Fund 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 146
Top Ten Myths Of Social Security Reform 0 0 0 184 3 4 9 283
Trading with the Unborn: A New Perspective on Capital Income Taxation 0 0 0 27 0 1 11 108
Trading with the Unborn: A New Perspective on Capital Income Taxation 0 0 0 30 1 4 10 243
Who Bears the Burden of the Corporate Tax in The Open Economy? 0 0 1 285 4 11 26 926
Why Don’t Elite Colleges Expand Supply? 0 0 0 12 1 5 13 51
Total Working Papers 3 3 30 4,605 26 140 457 23,351


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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Assessing fundamental tax reform 0 0 0 57 0 1 11 314
Comment on: "Unfunded liabilities and uncertain fiscal financing" by Troy Davig, Eric M. Leeper, Todd B. Walker 0 0 0 9 0 4 10 83
Consumption Taxes and Economic Efficiency with Idiosyncratic Wage Shocks 0 0 3 140 1 7 23 921
Controlling the cost of minimum benefit guarantees in public pension conversions 0 0 0 22 0 0 9 176
Correspondence 0 0 0 4 0 0 6 40
Discounting Inside the Washington D.C. Beltway 0 0 0 118 0 0 13 476
Does the Open Economy Assumption Really Mean That Labor Bears the Burden of a Capital Income Tax? 2 4 8 502 5 11 37 1,296
Fiscal and generational imbalances: new budget measures for new budget priorities 0 0 1 198 2 4 13 557
Guaranteeing Defined Contribution Pensions: The Option to Buy Back a Defined Benefit Promise 0 0 0 18 0 2 5 203
Is the Social Security Trust Fund a Store of Value? 0 0 0 76 0 2 6 340
Mitigating America's demographic dilemma by pre-funding social security 0 0 0 108 0 3 10 285
Moral Hazard in Reinsurance Markets 0 0 1 26 1 3 19 169
Opting out of social security 0 0 0 106 0 2 7 448
Privatizing Social Security in the U.S. -- Comparing the Options 0 0 0 351 0 2 16 2,247
Ricardian equivalence: long-run Leviathan 0 0 1 103 1 4 10 289
Risk sharing across generations without publicly owned equities 0 0 1 48 1 2 14 132
Social Security: Privatization and Progressivity 0 0 0 62 1 2 13 320
The (Interesting) Dynamic Properties of the Neoclassical Growth Model with CES Production 0 0 0 268 0 2 8 928
Total Journal Articles 2 4 15 2,216 12 51 230 9,224


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Distributional Effects in a General Equilibrium Analysis of Social Security 0 0 1 39 0 2 15 138
Fiscal and Generational Imbalances: An Update 0 0 0 37 1 6 12 100
Pricing Personal Account Benefit Guarantees: A Simplified Approach 0 0 0 17 3 5 7 60
The Effect of Pay-When-Needed Benefit Guarantees on the Impact of Social Security Privatization 0 0 0 10 0 3 8 52
Total Chapters 0 0 1 103 4 16 42 350


Statistics updated 2026-06-04