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Author:Auerbach, Alan J. 

Conference Paper
Investment policies to promote growth

Proceedings - Economic Policy Symposium - Jackson Hole

Journal Article
Assessing the impact of income tax, social security tax, and health care spending on U.S. saving rates

An assessment of the effects of proposed reductions in income and Social Security taxes on middle-income Americans and of cuts in health care spending, using the generational accounting method to examine their likely impact on both current and future national saving rates.
Economic Review , Volume 28 , Issue Q IV , Pages 13-21

Working Paper
Reassessing the social returns to equipment investment

Working Paper Series / Economic Activity Section , Paper 129

Conference Paper
Is there a role for discretionary fiscal policy?

Proceedings - Economic Policy Symposium - Jackson Hole

Conference Paper
Activist fiscal policy to stabilize economic activity

Proceedings - Economic Policy Symposium - Jackson Hole

Journal Article
Restoring generational balance in U.S. fiscal policy: what will it take?

A study of the magnitudes of tax increases, transfer cuts, or reductions in government purchases that would be needed to rectify the huge imbalance in the generational stance of U.S. fiscal policy, concluding that congressionally proposed outlay reductions in nondefense and non-Social Security spending would still be insufficient to bridge the gap.
Economic Review , Issue Q I , Pages 2-12

Journal Article
Assessing fundamental tax reform

A look at how some basic tax reform proposals stack up against four, sometimes competing, requirements laid out by President Clinton in a December 1997 speech: Is the proposal fiscally responsible? Will it be good for the economy? Will it lead to a simpler tax system? And finally, is it fair to all Americans?
Economic Commentary , Issue Jan

Journal Article
Generational accounts and lifetime tax rates, 1900-1991

An update of the baseline generational accounts reported in the 1993 federal budget that extends the analysis to lifetime net tax rates--the taxes that a generation pays, less the Social Security and other transfer benefits that it receives, as a share of income over its entire lifetime.
Economic Review , Volume 29 , Issue Q I , Pages 2-13

Working Paper
Simulating U.S. tax reform

A presentation of a large-scale, dynamic simulation model for comparing the equity, efficiency, and macroeconomic effects of five alternatives to the current U.S. federal income tax: a proportional income tax, a proportional consumption tax, a flat tax, a flat tax with transition relief, and a progressive variant of the flat tax called the "X tax."
Working Papers (Old Series) , Paper 9712

Working Paper
Generational accounting in Norway: is the nation overconsuming its petroleum wealth?

An examination of the generational imbalance in current Norwegian fiscal policy, showing that despite the government's net wealth, future Norwegians could be facing lifetime net tax burdens twice as large as those confronting today's children.
Working Papers (Old Series) , Paper 9305

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