Peter A. Diamond

Names

first:	Peter
middle:	A.
last:	Diamond

Contact

email:
homepage:	http://econ-www.mit.edu/faculty/pdiamond/
phone:	(617) 253-3363
postal address:	MIT Department of Economics E52-344 50 Memorial Drive Cambridge MA 02142-1347

Affiliations

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department
  • website
  • location: Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)

Research profile

author of:

• What Stock Market Returns To Expect For The Future?
  by Peter A. Diamond
• Social Security Investment in Equities in an Economy with Short-Term Production and Land
  by Peter Diamond & John Geanakoplos
• Savings and Portfolio Choice in a Two-Period Two-Asset Model
  by Saku Aura & Peter Diamond Author-X.-Name-Peter & John Geanakoplos
• Social Security Investment in Equities
  by Peter Diamond & John Geanakoplos
• Stationary Utility and Time Preference
  by Peter A. Diamond & Tjalling C. Koopmans & Richard E. Williamson
• Single Activity Accidents
  by P. A. Diamond
• A Many-Person Ramsey Tax Rule
  by P. A. Diamond
• Private Constant Returns and Public Shadow Prices
  by P. A. Diamond & J. A. Mirrlees
• On the Assignment of Liability: The Uniform Case
  by P. A. Diamond & J. A. Mirrlees
• Welfare Analysis of Imperfect Information Equilibria
  by P. Diamond
• Tax Incidence in a Two Good Model
  by P. Diamond
• Explaining the Relative Efficiency of Slave Agriculture in the Antebellum South: Comment
  by P. A. Diamond & P. Temin
• A Model of Social Insurance With Variable Retirement
  by P. A. Diamond & J. A. Mirrlees
• Optimal Taxation in a Stochastic Economy: A Cobb-Douglas Example
  by P. Diamond & J. Helms & J. Mirrlees
• Optimal Taxation and Public Production
  by Peter A. Diamond & J. A. Mirrlees
• An Equilibrium Analysis of Search and Breach of Contract, I
  by P. Diamond & E. Maskin
• An Equilibrium Analysis of Search and Breach of Contract, II: A Non-Steady State Example
  by P. Diamond & E. Makin
• Mobility Costs, Frictional Unemployment and Efficiency
  by P. Diamond
• Aggregate Demand Management in Search Equilibrium
  by P. Diamond
• Social Insurance with Variable Retirement and Private Saving
  by J. A. Mirrlees & P. Diamond
• Money in Search Equilibrium
  by P. A. Diamond
• The Distribution of Inventory Holdings in a Pure Exchange Barter Search Economy
  by J. Yellin & P. Diamond
• Pricing and the Distribution of Money Holdings in a Search Economy
  by Peter Diamond & Joel Yellin
• Search Theory
  by Peter Diamond
• Equilibrium Without An Auctioneer
  by Peter Diamond
• Opportunity Costs and Public Investment: Comment
  by Peter A. Diamond
• Consumer Differences and Prices in a Search Model
  by Peter Diamond
• Stochastic Credit in Search Equilibrium
  by Peter Diamond
• Rational Expectations Business Cycles in Search Equilibrium
  by Peter Diamond & Drew Fudenberg
• Stochastic Credit in Search Equilibrium, II
  by Peter Diamond
• Incidence of an Interest Income Tax
  by Peter A. Diamond
• Search, Sticky Prices, and Inflation
  by Peter A. Diamond
• RANKING, UNEMPLOYMENT DURATION, AND WAGES.
  by BLANCHARD, O. J. & DIAMOND, P.
• INTEGRATING ALLOCATION STABILIZATION BUDGETS.
  by DIAMOND, P.
• Search, Sticky Prices, and Inflation with Consumer Differences.
  by Diamond, P. A.
• Economic Aspects of Optimal Disability Benefits.
  by Sheshinski, E. & Diamond, P.
• Testing the Internal Consistency of Contingent Valuation Surveys.
  by Diamond, P.
• Optimal Income Taxation: An Exemple with a U-Shaped Pattern of Optimal Marginal Tax Rates.
  by Diamond, P.
• Insulations of pensions from Political Risk.
  by Diamond, P.
• On the Near Optimality of Linear Incentives
  by Peter Diamond
• Managing Incentives: On the Near Optimality of Linearity
  by Peter Diamond
• Increase and in Risk Aversion
  by Peter A. Diamond & J. E. Stiglitz
• Rationing Medical Care: An Economist's Perspective
  by Diamond, P.
• Efficiency Effects of Punitive Damages.
  by Diamond, P.
• Efficiency Effects of Punitive Damages
  by Peter Diamond
• Integrating Punishment and Efficiency Concerns in Punitive Damages for Reckless Disregard of Risks to Others.
  by Diamond, P. A.
• Inflation and the Comprehensive Tax Base
  by Peter A. Diamond
• Social Security Investment in Equities I: Linear Case
  by Peter Diamond & John Geanakoplos
• Ranking, Unemployment Duration, and Wages
  by Olivier Jean Blanchard & Peter Diamond
• The Flow Approach to Labor Markets
  by Olivier Jean Blanchard & Peter Diamond
• Privatization of Social Security: Lessons from Chile
  by Peter Diamond
• Insulation of Pensions from Political Risk
  by Peter Diamond
• Social Security and Retirement in the U.S.
  by Peter Diamond & Jonathan Gruber
• The Economics of Social Security Reform
  by Peter Diamond
• Administrative Costs and Equilibrium Charges with Individual Accounts
  by Peter Diamond
• Social Security Investment in Equities I: Linear Case
  by Peter Diamond & Jean Geanakoplos
• Delays in Claiming Social Security Benefits
  by Courtney Coile & Peter Diamond & Jonathan Gruber & Alain Jousten
• An Assessment of the Proposals of the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security
  by Peter A. Diamond & Peter R. Orszag
• Annuities and Individual Welfare
  by Thomas Davidoff & Jeffrey R. Brown & Peter A. Diamond
• Optimal Taxation and Public Production: I--Production Efficiency.
  by Diamond, Peter A. & Mirrlees, James A.
• Optimal Taxation and Public Production II: Tax Rules.
  by Diamond, Peter A. & Mirrlees, James A.
• Implications of the Theory of Rationing for Consumer Choice Under Uncertainty.
  by Diamond, Peter A. & Yaari, Menahem
• Multiple Equilibria in Models of Credit.
  by Diamond, Peter
• The Flow Approach to Labor Markets.
  by Blanchard, Olivier Jean & Diamond, Peter
• Optimal Income Taxation: An Example with a U-Shaped Pattern of Optimal Marginal Tax Rates.
  by Diamond, Peter A.
• Savings and Portfolio Choice in a Two-Period Two-Asset Model
  by Saku Aura & Peter Diamond & John Geanakoplos
• Proposals to Restructure Social Security
  by Peter A. Diamond
• Two Improvements on the Clinton Framework
  by Peter A. Diamond
• Contingent Valuation: Is Some Number Better than No Number?
  by Peter A. Diamond & Jerry A. Hausman
• Public Provision of Pensions: The Doug Purvis Memorial Lecture
  by Peter Diamond
• Money in Search Equilibrium.
  by Diamond, Peter A.
• The Distribution of Inventory Holdings in a Pure Exchange Barter Search Economy.
  by Diamond, Peter & Yellin, Joel
• Inventories and Money Holdings in a Search Economy.
  by Diamond, Peter & Yellin, Joel
• Organizing the Health Insurance Market.
  by Diamond, Peter
• How should Social Security be Reformed? A Panel Discussion: Political Aspects of Social Security Reform
  by Peter A. Diamond
• Integrating Punishment and Efficiency Concerns in Punitive Damages for Reckless Disregard of Risks to Others
  by Peter Diamond
• An Equilibrium Analysis of Search and Breach of Contract, I: Steady States
  by Peter A. Diamond & Eric Maskin
• Consumption Externalities and Imperfect Corrective Pricing
  by Peter A. Diamond
• Accident Law and Resource Allocation
  by Peter A. Diamond
• Posner's Economic Analysis of Law
  by Peter A. Diamond
• On the Assignment of Liability: The Uniform Case
  by Peter A. Diamond & James A. Mirrlees
• Welfare Analysis of Imperfect Information Equilibria
  by Peter A. Diamond
• Managerial Incentives: On the Near Linearity of Optimal Compensation
  by Peter Diamond
• Mobility Costs, Frictional Unemployment, and Efficiency.
  by Diamond, Peter A.
• Aggregate Demand Management in Search Equilibrium.
  by Diamond, Peter A.
• Rational Expectations Business Cycles in Search Equilibrium.
  by Diamond, Peter & Fudenberg, Drew
• Rational Expectations Business Cycles in Search Equilibrium: A Correction.
  by Diamond, Peter & Fudenberg, Drew
• Measurement of the Elasticity of Factor Substitution and Bias of Technical Change
  by Diamond, Peter & McFadden, Daniel & Rodriguez, Miguel
  edited by
• The Aggregate Matching Function
  by Olivier Jean Blanchard & Peter A. Diamond
• Social Security
  by Peter Diamond
• Testing the Internal Consistency of Contingent Valuation Surveys
  by Diamond, Peter
• Economic aspects of optimal disability benefits
  by Diamond, Peter & Sheshinski, Eytan
• Social Security Investment in Equities
  by Peter Diamond & John Geanakoplos
• Delays in claiming social security benefits
  by Coile, Courtney & Diamond, Peter & Gruber, Jonathan & Jousten, Alain
• Quasi-hyperbolic discounting and retirement
  by Diamond, Peter & Koszegi, Botond
• Public Finance Theory - Then and Now
  by Diamond, Peter
• Incidence of an interest income tax
  by Diamond, Peter A.
• An equilibrium analysis of search and breach of contract II. A non-steady state example
  by Diamond, P. A. & Maskin, Eric
• A model of social insurance with variable retirement
  by Diamond, P. A. & Mirrlees, J. A.
• A model of price adjustment
  by Diamond, Peter A.
• Saving Social Security
  by Peter A. Diamond & Peter R. Orszag
• Customs valuation and transport choice
  by Diamond, Peter A. & Mitchell, Frank
• Optimal tax treatment of private contributions for public goods with and without warm glow preferences
  by Diamond, Peter
• Annuities and Individual Welfare
  by Thomas Davidoff & Jeffrey R. Brown & Peter A. Diamond
• Individual retirement and savings behavior
  by Diamond, P. A. & Hausman, J. A.
• An alternative to steady-state comparisons
  by Diamond, Peter A.
• Optimal taxation in a stochastic economy : A Cobb-Douglas example
  by Diamond, P. A. & Helms, L. J. & Mirrlees, J. A.
• Increases in risk and in risk aversion
  by Diamond, Peter A. & Stiglitz, Joseph E.
• A many-person Ramsey tax rule
  by Diamond, P. A.
• Reforming Public Pensions in the US and the UK
  by Peter Diamond
• (UBS Pensions Series 038) Reforming Public Pensions in the US and the UK
  by Peter Diamond
• Income taxation with fixed hours of work
  by Diamond, P.
• Towards an Optimal Social Security Design
  by Peter Diamond
• Pensions for an Aging Population
  by Peter Diamond
• A framework for social security analysis
  by Diamond, P. A.
• (UBS Pensions Series 041) The Economics of Pensions
  by Peter Diamond & Nicholas Barr
• Some uses of the expenditure function in public finance
  by Diamond, P. A. & McFadden, D. L.
• The Economics of Pensions
  by Nicholas Barr & Peter Diamond
• Tax incidence in a two good model
  by Diamond, P.
• Inflation and the comprehensive tax base
  by Diamond, P. A.
• Macroeconomics Aspects of Social Security Reform
  by Peter A. Diamond
• The Beveridge Curve
  by Oliver Jean Blanchard & Peter Diamond
• The Cyclical Behovior of the Gross Flows of U.S. Workers
  by Oliver Jean Blanchard & Peter Diamond
• On the Cost of Tax-exempt Bonds
  by Peter A. Diamond
• Cardinal Welfare, Individualistic Ethics, and Interpersonal Comparison of Utility: Comment
  by Peter A. Diamond
• Introduction to Behavioral Economics and Its Applications
  by Peter Diamond & Hannu Vartiainen
  edited by
• Behavioral economics
  by Diamond, Peter
• Foreword
  by Peter A. Diamond
• Taxation, Incomplete Markets, and Social Security
  by Peter A. Diamond
• Delays in claiming social security benefits.
  by COILE, Courtney & DIAMOND, Peter & GRUBER, Jonathan & JOUSTEN, Alain
• Reforming Pensions
  by Nicholas Barr & Peter A. Diamond
• Protection, Trade Adjustment Assistance, and Income Distribution
  by Peter A. Diamond
  edited by
• Social Security and Retirement in the United States
  by Peter Diamond & Jonathan Gruber
  edited by
• Pension Reform in a Transition Economy: Notes on Poland and Chile
  by Peter A. Diamond
  edited by
• Administrative Costs and Equilibrium Charges with Individual Accounts
  by Peter A. Diamond
  edited by
• Reforming Pensions
  by Nicholas Barr & Peter Diamond
• An Equilibrium Analysis of Search and Breach of Contract
  by Diamond, Peter & Maskin, Eric
• Social Security Reform
  by Peter Diamond
• Taxes and Pensions
  by Peter A. Diamond
• Taxation, Incomplete Markets, and Social Security
  by Peter A. Diamond
• Insurance Aspects of Pensions
  by Peter A. Diamond & James Mirrlees
  edited by
• Capital Income Taxes with Heterogeneous Discount Rates
  by Peter A. Diamond & Johannes Spinnewijn
• On Time
  by Diamond, Peter A.
• On Time
  by Diamond, Peter A.
• Capital Income Taxes With Heterogeneous Discount Rates
  by Peter Diamond & Johannes Spinnewijn
• An Assessment of the Proposals of the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security
  by Diamond Peter & Orszag Peter R.
• Saving Social Security: The Diamond-Orszag Plan
  by Diamond Peter A. & Orszag Peter R.
• Taxes and Pensions
  by Peter Diamond
• Single Activity Accidents
  by Peter A. Diamond
• Symposium on the Rationing of Health Care: 1 Rationing Medical Care — An Economist's Perspective
  by Diamond, Peter
• Improving Sweden's Automatic Pension Adjustment Mechanism
  by Nicholas Barr & Peter Diamond
• Pension Reform: A Short Guide
  by Barr, Nicholas & Diamond, Peter
• Reforming Pensions: Principles and Policy Choices
  by Barr, Nicholas & Diamond, Peter
• Reforming Pensions: Lessons from Economic Theory and Some Policy Directions
  by Nicholas Barr & Peter Diamond
• Social Security Reform
  by Diamond, Peter A.
• Unemployment, Vacancies, Wages
  by Peter Diamond
• Interview with Nobel Prize Laureates Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides
  by Diamond, Peter A. & Mortensen, Dale T. & Pissarides, Christopher A.
• The Case for a Progressive Tax: From Basic Research to Policy Recommendations
  by Peter A. Diamond & Emmanuel Saez
• Economic Theory and Tax and Pension Policies
  by PETER DIAMOND
• Autobiography
  by Diamond, Peter A.
• Unemployment, Vacancies, Wages
  by Diamond, Peter A.
• Capital Income Taxes with Heterogeneous Discount Rates
  by Peter Diamond & Johannes Spinnewijn
• The Case for a Progressive Tax: From Basic Research to Policy Recommendations
  by Peter Diamond & Emmanuel Saez
• Rational Expectations Business Cycles in Search Equilibrium: A Correction
  by Diamond, Peter & Fudenberg, Drew
• Rational Expectations Business Cycles in Search Equilibrium
  by Fudenberg, Drew & Diamond, Peter
• The Public Pension Reform Debate in the United States and International Experience
  by Peter A. Diamond
• Cyclical Unemployment, Structural Unemployment
  by Peter A. Diamond
• Social Security Reforms in Chile
  by Salvador Valdés & Peter Diamond
• Cyclical Unemployment, Structural Unemployment
  by Peter A. Diamond
• Cyclical unemployment, structural unemployment
  by Peter A. Diamond
• Cyclical Unemployment, Structural Unemployment
  by Peter Diamond
• Reforming pensions: principles, analytical errors and policy directions
  by Barr, Nicholas & Diamond, Peter
• Reforming public pensions in the US and the UK
  by Diamond, Peter
• Structural unemployment
  by Peter A. Diamond
• The economics of pensions
  by Barr, Nicholas & Diamond, Peter
• Shifts in the Beveridge curve
  by Peter A. Diamond & Aysegul Sahin
• Système de retraite et vieillissement de la population
  by Peter A. Diamond
• Shifts in the Beveridge curve
  by Diamond, Peter A. & Şahin, Ayşegül
• Aggregate Production with Consumption Externalities
  by Peter A. Diamond & James A. Mirrlees
• Ranking, Unemployment Duration, and Wages
  by Olivier Jean Blanchard & Peter Diamond
• The Opportunity Costs of Public Investment: Comment
  by Peter Diamond
• Efficiency with Uncertain Supply
  by Peter Diamond
• Pairwise Credit in Search Equilibrium
  by Peter Diamond
• Money Illusion
  by Eldar Shafir & Peter Diamond & Amos Tversky
• Consumer Differences and Prices in a Search Model
  by Peter Diamond
• Technical Change and the Measurement of Capital and Output
  by Peter A. Diamond
• Disembodied Technical Change in a Two-Sector Model
  by Peter A. Diamond
• Wage Determination and Efficiency in Search Equilibrium
  by Peter A. Diamond
• Private Constant Returns and Public Shadow Prices
  by P. Diamond & J. Mirrlees
• Search, Sticky Prices, and Inflation
  by Peter A. Diamond
• Taxes and Pensions
  by Diamond, Peter
• Correspondence: Scoring Social Security Proposals
  by Peter Diamond & Kashin Konstantin & Gary King & Samir Soneji
• INEQUALITY: COMMENTS, QUESTIONS, AND ANSWERS
  by Peter A. Diamond & James A. Mirrlees & Yew-Kwang Ng & Ravi Kumar
• Pensions, Taxes and The Budgetary Process
  by Peter Diamond
• ADDRESSING THE FORCES DRIVING INEQUALITY IN THE UNITED STATES
  by Peter A. Diamond
• Disaggregating the Matching Function
  by Peter A. Diamond & Ayşegül Şahin
• Generational Accounts and Generational Balance: An Assessment
  by Diamond, Peter
• Disaggregating the Matching Function
  by Peter A. Diamond & Aysegül Sahin
• The Long-Term Outlook for Stocks
  by Peter Diamond
• Designing a default structure: submission to the Inquiry into Superannuation: assessing efficiency and competitiveness
  by Barr, Nicholas & Diamond, Peter
• Response to superannuation: assessing efficiency and competitiveness: productivity commission draft report
  by Barr, Nicholas & Diamond, Peter
• QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: THE FUTURE OF SOCIAL SECURITY
  by Peter A. Diamond
• THE FUTURE OF SOCIAL SECURITY
  by Peter A. Diamond
• AN EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS OF SEARCH AND BREACH OF CONTRACT
  by Diamond, Peter & Maskin, Eric
• Top-heavy load: Trouble ahead for social security systems, Introduction by Peter A. Diamond
  by Peter Diamond
• Riester Pensions
  by Peter Diamond
• Reforming pensions: Principles, analytical errors and policy directions
  by Nicholas Barr & Peter Diamond
• Forecasting Interest Rates over the Long Run
  by Tobias Adrian & Richard K. Crump & Peter A. Diamond & Rui Yu
• Discounting the Long-Run
  by Tobias Adrian & Richard K. Crump & Peter A. Diamond & Rui Yu

editor of:

• Issues in Privatizing Social Security: Report of an Expert Panel of the National Academy of Social Insurance
  edited by Peter A. Diamond
• Growth / Productivity / Unemployment
  edited by Peter Diamond
• Uncertainty in Economics
  edited by Diamond, Peter & Rothschild, Michael