May-2005: Does Social Security Privatization Produce Efficiency Gains?

Dec-2004: Measuring Social Security's Financial Problems (with Jagadeesh Gokhale)

May-2004: Is the Social Security Trust Fund a Store of Value?

Mar-2004 (Updated): Trading with the Unborn: A New Perspective on Capital Income Taxation

Feb-2004: Insuring Against Terrorism: The Policy Challenge

Jul-2003: How to Balance a $43 Trillion Checkbook (with Jagadesh Gokhale), Wall Street Journal, July 17, 2003

Jun-2003: Is the Social Security Trust Fund Worth Anything?

Jun-2003: Fiscal and Generational Imbalances: New Budget Measures For New Budget Priorities (with Jagadeesh Gokhale)

Apr-2003: Discussion of Social Security, the Government Budget and National Savings by Peter Diamond

Mar-2003: Testimony by Kent Smetters for the Subcommittee on the Constitution of The United States House of Representatives

Feb-2003: Sharing Financial Risks Across Non-Trading Generations: A Decentralized Alternative to Government Ownership of Private Equities

Jan-2003: Consumption Taxes and Economic Efficiency in a Stochastic Olg Economy (with Shinichi Nishiyama)

Dec- 2002: Finding a Way Out of America's Demographic Dilemma (with Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Jan Walliser)

Dec-2002: Ricardian Equivalence with Incomplete Household Risk Sharing (with Shinichi Nishiyama)

Oct-2002: Controlling the Cost of Minimum Benefit Guarantees in Public Pension Conversions

Sep-2002: The (Interesting) Dynamic Properties of the Neoclassical Growth Model with CES Production

Sep-2002: Moral Hazard in Reinsurance Markets (with Neil Doherty)

Aug-2002: Opting Out of Social Security (with Jan Walliser)