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Kent Smetters

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Bachelors Economics Brigham Young University

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According to Wikipedia, Kent Smetters is an academic, entrepreneur, and former government official. Early years Smetters was raised in Ohio. He received his bachelor's degrees in economics and computer science from the Ohio State University in 1990, and master's and PhD degrees in economics from Harvard University in 1992 and 1995 respectively.

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Kent Smetters's Published Works

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Does Social Security Privatization Produce Efficiency Gains? (2005) (245)
Privatizing Social Security in the United States — Comparing the Options* (1999) (146)
Consumption Taxes and Economic Efficiency with Idiosyncratic Wage Shocks (2005) (142)
Health Shocks and the Demand for Annuities (2004) (113)
Mitigating America's demographic dilemma by pre-funding social security (2007) (111)
Fiscal and Generational Imbalances: New Budget Measures for New Budget Priorities (2003) (104)
Does the Open Economy Assumption Really Mean That Labor Bears the Burden of a Capital Income Tax? (2006) (103)
Moral Hazard in Reinsurance Markets (2002) (103)
Finding a Way Out of America&Apos;S Demographic Dilemma (2001) (83)
The Coming Generational Storm (2001) (81)
Social Security: Privatization and Progressivity (1998) (79)
The Pension Challenge: Risk Transfers and Retirement Income Security (2003) (74)
Optimal Annuitization with Stochastic Mortality and Correlated Medical Costs (2015) (74)
DYNAMIC TAX MODELS: WHY THEY DO THE THINGS THEY DO (1997) (72)
Discounting Inside the Washington D.C. Beltway (1999) (60)
Opting Out of Social Security and Adverse Selection (1998) (50)
Ricardian equivalence: long-run Leviathan (1999) (46)
Simulating U.S. Tax Reform (1997) (42)
The market for retirement financial advice (2013) (36)
Distributional Effects in a General Equilibrium Analysis of Social Security (2002) (36)
An Analysis of Investment Advice to Retirement Plan Participants (2003) (33)
Measuring Social Security's Financial Problems (2005) (32)
Lapse-Based Insurance (2021) (30)
The (Interesting) Dynamic Properties of the Neoclassical Growth Model with Ces Production (2003) (30)
Is the Social Security Trust Fund a Store of Value (2004) (30)
Who Bears the Burden of the Corporate Tax in the Open Economy? (2001) (30)
Privatizing Social Security in the U.S.: Comparing the Options: Technical Paper 1998-4 (1998) (27)
Optimal Annuitization with Stochastic Mortality Probabilities (2013) (24)
Is the Social Security Trust Fund Worth Anything? (2003) (24)
Fiscal and Generational Imbalances: An Update (2006) (23)
Epidemiological and Economic Effects of Lockdown (2021) (23)
Risk sharing across generations without publicly owned equities (2006) (23)
Dropping Out of Social Security (2002) (22)
Analyzing fiscal policies in a heterogeneous-agent overlapping-generations economy (2014) (21)
Discounting in the Long Term (2001) (20)
Trading with the Unborn: A New Perspective on Capital Income Taxation (2003) (19)
Risk Transfer in Public Pension Plans (2003) (18)
Health Shocks and the Demand for Annuities: Technical Paper 2004-09 (2004) (18)
The Effect of Pay-When-Needed Benefit Guarantees on the Impact of Social Security Privatization (2001) (18)
Money-Back Guarantees in Individual Pension Accounts: Evidence from the German Pension Reform (2003) (16)
A Sharper Ratio: A General Measure for Correctly Ranking Non-Normal Investment Risks (2013) (16)
Narrow Framing and Life Insurance (2012) (15)
Company Stock and Pension Plan Diversification (2003) (15)
Do the Markets Care about the $2.4 Trillion U.S. Deficit? (2007) (13)
The Optimal Design of Social Security Benefits (2008) (12)
Simulating U.S. Tax Reform: Technical Paper 1997-6 (1997) (12)
Could a Website Really Have Doomed the Health Exchanges? Multiple Equilibria, Initial Conditions and the Construction of the Fine (2014) (12)
The Pension Challenge (2003) (10)
The Exchange Theory of Teenage Smoking and the Counterproductiveness of Moderate Regulation (2001) (10)
Fiscal and Generational Imbalances (2003) (9)
THE EQUIVALENCE BETWEEN STATE CONTINGENT TAx POLICY AND OPTIONS AND FORWARDS: AN APPLICATION TO INVESTING THE SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUND IN EQUITIES (2000) (8)
Optimal Portfolio Choice Over the Life Cycle with Social Security (2010) (8)
Does Social Security Privatization Produce Efficiency Gains? Working Paper 2005-04 (2005) (7)
The Economics of Tax Policy (2017) (7)
Optimal Portfolio Choice with Wage-Indexed Social Security (2011) (7)
Securing Public Pension Promises through Funding (2003) (6)
Understanding the Argument for Market Valuation of Public Pension Liabilities (2013) (6)
Integrating Payouts: Annuity Design and Public Pension Benefits in Mandatory Defined Contribution Plans (2003) (5)
Thinking About Social Security's Trust Fund (1997) (5)
How Initial Conditions Can Have Permanent Effects: The Case of the Affordable Care Act (2018) (5)
Retirement Guarantees in Voluntary Defined Contribution Plans (2003) (5)
Optimal Annuitization with Stochastic Mortality Probabilities: Working Paper 2013-05 (2013) (5)
Financing Old Age Dependency (2014) (4)
Ricardian Equivalence with Incomplete Household Risk Sharing (2002) (4)
Optimal Annuitization with Stochastic Mortality and Correlated Longevity Costs (2015) (4)
Financing Losses from Catastrophic Risks (2008) (4)
Economic Policy in the International Economy: Simulating Fundamental Tax Reform in the United States (2003) (3)
The Market for Retirement Financial Advice: An Introduction (2012) (3)
Optimal Portfolio Choice with Fat Tails (2009) (3)
Grade Non-Disclosure (2011) (3)
Stay-at-home orders and second waves: a graphical exposition (2020) (3)
Measuring Social Security's Financial Outlook Within An Aging Society (2006) (3)
Diminishing America's Demographic Dilemma Through Pre-Funding Social Security (2004) (3)
Financing Losses from Catastrophic Risks: Working Paper 2008-09 (2008) (2)
Risk Transfers and Retirement Income Security (2003) (2)
Dynamic Analysis of Tax Plans: An Update (2017) (2)
The Equivalence of the Social Security&Apos;S Trust Fund Portfolio Allocation and Capital Income Tax Policy (2001) (2)
Social Security Privatization with Income-Mortality Correlation (2006) (2)
Three Key Design Issues in Analyzing the Trust Fund Investment Policy (1999) (2)
Developments in Risk Management for Retirement Security (2002) (2)
Overview: Developments in Risk Management for Retirement Security (2003) (1)
Credit Implications of the Payout Annuity Market (2003) (1)
LABOR SUPPLY AND TAXES January 1996 (2002) (1)
Tax Reform in a Changing Economy (2017) (1)
Prospects for Social Security Reform in the United States (2005) (1)
Asking For Help: Survey and Experimental Evidence on Financial Advice and Behavior Change (2019) (1)
Essays on intergenerational transfer of wealth (1995) (1)
A Matter of Trust: Understanding Worldwide Public Pension Conversions (2010) (1)
Is there a Role for Government Provision of Terrorism Reinsurance ? (2002) (1)
Grade Non-Disclosure. NBER Working Paper No. 17465. (2011) (1)
Ricardian Equivalence with Incomplete Household Risk Sharing: Technical Paper 2002-4 (2002) (1)
Securitized Risk Instruments as Alternative Pension Fund Investments (2003) (1)
Ricardian Equivalence Under Asymmetric Information (2010) (0)
Hedging Segregated Fund Guarantees (2003) (0)
Initiative 4-2013 Regulating “ Too Big to Fail ” (2016) (0)
11-1-2001 Discounting in the Long Term (2017) (0)
Why Don't Elite Colleges Expand Supply? (2021) (0)
Assessing Fundamental Tax Reform (1998) (0)
Personal Social Security Accounts: Just How Important Are Annuity Markets? ∗ (2007) (0)
Measuring Social SecurityAS Financial Problems (2005) (0)
Should the Poor Own Stocks? The Role of Social Security (2008) (0)
Comment on: "Unfunded liabilities and uncertain fiscal financing" by Troy Davig, Eric M. Leeper, Todd B. Walker (2010) (0)
Replication data for: How Initial Conditions Can Have Permanent Effects: The Case of the Affordable Care Act (2019) (0)
The Demand for Annuities with Stochastic Mortality Probabilities (2012) (0)
Regulating “Too Big to Fail” (2013) (0)

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