Douglas Elmendorf

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• Harvard University / Harvard Kennedy School
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• Government Debt, Government Spending, and Private Sector Behavior Revisited: Comment
  American Economic Review, American Economic Association (1990)
  by Feldstein, Martin & Elmendorf, Douglas W
  (ReDIF-article, aea:aecrev:v:80:y:1990:i:3:p:589-99)
• National Fiscal Policies to Fight Recessions in US States
  AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association (2020)
  by Karen Dynan & Douglas Elmendorf
  (ReDIF-article, aea:apandp:v:110:y:2020:p:131-36)
• Wolf, Martin. The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
  Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association (2024)
  by Doug Elmendorf
  (ReDIF-article, aea:jeclit:v:62:y:2024:i:2:p:818-20)
• Should America Save for Its Old Age? Fiscal Policy, Population Aging, and National Saving
  Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association (2000)
  by Douglas W. Elmendorf & Louise M. Sheiner
  (ReDIF-article, aea:jecper:v:14:y:2000:i:3:p:57-74)
• Federal Budget Policy with an Aging Population and Persistently Low Interest Rates
  Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association (2017)
  by Douglas W. Elmendorf & Louise M. Sheiner
  (ReDIF-article, aea:jecper:v:31:y:2017:i:3:p:175-94)
• Social Security Reform and National Saving in an Era of Budget Surpluses
  Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution (2000)
  by Douglas W. Elmendorf & Jeffrey B. Liebman
  (ReDIF-article, bin:bpeajo:v:31:y:2000:i:2000-2:p:1-72)
• “Dynamic Scoring”: Why and How to Include Macroeconomic Effects in Budget Estimates for Legislative Proposals
  Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution (2015)
  by Douglas W. Elmendorf
  (ReDIF-article, bin:bpeajo:v:46:y:2015:i:2015-02:p:91-149)
• The Evolution of Household Income Volatility
  The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, De Gruyter (2012)
  by Dynan Karen & Elmendorf Douglas & Sichel Daniel
  (ReDIF-article, bpj:bejeap:v:12:y:2012:i:2:p:1-42:n:3)
• Government debt
  Handbook of Macroeconomics, Elsevier (1999)
  by Elmendorf, Douglas W. & Gregory Mankiw, N.
  (ReDIF-chapter, eee:macchp:1-25)
• Can financial innovation help to explain the reduced volatility of economic activity?
  Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier (2006)
  by Dynan, Karen E. & Elmendorf, Douglas W. & Sichel, Daniel E.
  (ReDIF-article, eee:moneco:v:53:y:2006:i:1:p:123-150)
• Restraining the Leviathan: property tax limitation in Massachusetts
  Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier (1999)
  by Cutler, David M. & Elmendorf, Douglas W. & Zeckhauser, Richard
  (ReDIF-article, eee:pubeco:v:71:y:1999:i:3:p:313-334)
• Financial innovation and the Great Moderation: what do household data say?
  Proceedings, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (2006)
  by Karen E. Dynan & Douglas W. Elmendorf & Daniel E. Sichel
  (ReDIF-article, fip:fedfpr:y:2006:i:nov:x:2)
• Macroeconomic implications of changes in micro volatility - discussion
  Proceedings, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (2007)
  by Douglas W. Elmendorf
  (ReDIF-article, fip:fedfpr:y:2007:i:nov:x:9)
• The Effect of Interest-Rate Changes on Household Saving and Consumption: A Survey
  Finance and Economics Discussion Series, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.) ()
  by Douglas W. Elmendorf
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedgfe:1996-27)
• Taxation of Labor Income and the Demand for Risky Assets
  Finance and Economics Discussion Series, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.) ()
  by Douglas W. Elmendorf & Miles S. Kimball
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedgfe:1996-32)
• The Effect of Deficit-Reduction Laws on Real Interest Rates
  Finance and Economics Discussion Series, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.) ()
  by Douglas W. Elmendorf
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedgfe:1996-44)
• Declining required reserves and the volatility of the federal funds rate
  Finance and Economics Discussion Series, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.) (1997)
  by James A. Clouse & Douglas W. Elmendorf
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedgfe:1997-30)
• Restraining the Leviathan: property tax limitations in Massachusetts
  Finance and Economics Discussion Series, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.) (1997)
  by David M. Cutler & Douglas W. Elmendorf & Richard Zeckhauser
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedgfe:1997-47)
• Government debt
  Finance and Economics Discussion Series, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.) (1998)
  by Douglas W. Elmendorf & N. Gregory Mankiw
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedgfe:1998-09)
• The effect of stock prices on the demand for money market mutual funds
  Finance and Economics Discussion Series, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.) (1998)
  by James P. Dow & Douglas W. Elmendorf
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedgfe:1998-24)
• Should America save for its old age? Population aging, national saving, and fiscal policy
  Finance and Economics Discussion Series, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.) (2000)
  by Douglas W. Elmendorf & Louise Sheiner
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedgfe:2000-03)
• Do provisional estimates of output miss economic turning points?
  Finance and Economics Discussion Series, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.) (2001)
  by Karen E. Dynan & Douglas W. Elmendorf
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedgfe:2001-52)
• Can financial innovation help to explain the reduced volatility of economic activity?
  Finance and Economics Discussion Series, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.) (2005)
  by Karen E. Dynan & Douglas W. Elmendorf & Daniel E. Sichel
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedgfe:2005-54)
• The evolution of household income volatility
  Finance and Economics Discussion Series, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.) (2007)
  by Karen E. Dynan & Douglas W. Elmendorf & Daniel E. Sichel
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedgfe:2007-61)
• The effect of interest-rate changes on household saving and consumption: a survey
  Finance and Economics Discussion Series, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.) (1996)
  by Douglas W. Elmendorf
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedgfe:96-27)
• Taxation of labor income and the demand for risky assets
  Finance and Economics Discussion Series, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.) (1996)
  by Douglas W. Elmendorf & Miles S. Kimball
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedgfe:96-32)
• The effects of deficit-reduction laws on real interest rates
  Finance and Economics Discussion Series, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.) (1996)
  by Douglas W. Elmendorf
  (ReDIF-paper, fip:fedgfe:96-44)
• Actual Budget Deficit Expectations and Interest Rates
  Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Papers, Harvard - Institute of Economic Research (1993)
  by Elmendorf, D.W.
  (ReDIF-paper, fth:harver:1639)
• The Deficit Gamble
  Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Papers, Harvard - Institute of Economic Research (1995)
  by Laurence Ball & Douglas W. Elmendorf & N. Gregory Mankiw
  (ReDIF-paper, fth:harver:1710)
• Government Debt
  Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Papers, Harvard - Institute of Economic Research (1998)
  by Douglas W. Elmendorf & N. Gregory Mankiw
  (ReDIF-paper, fth:harver:1820)
• Government Debt
  Scholarly Articles, Harvard University Department of Economics (1999)
  by Elmendorf, Douglas W. & Mankiw, N
  (ReDIF-paper, hrv:faseco:2643866)
• Taxation of Labor Income and the Demand for Risky Assets
  International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association (2000)
  by Elmendorf, Douglas W & Kimball, Miles S
  (ReDIF-article, ier:iecrev:v:41:y:2000:i:3:p:801-33)
• Tackling the UK's regional economic inequality: Binding constraints and avenues for policy intervention
  Working Paper Series, Peterson Institute for International Economics (2024)
  by Anna Stansbury & Dan Turner & Ed Balls
  (ReDIF-paper, iie:wpaper:wp24-12)
• Fiscal policy and the pandemic-era surge in US inflation: Lessons for the future
  Working Paper Series, Peterson Institute for International Economics (2024)
  by Karen Dynan & Douglas Elmendorf
  (ReDIF-paper, iie:wpaper:wp24-22)
• The Deficit Gamble
  Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Blackwell Publishing (1998)
  by Ball, Laurence & Elmendorf, Douglas W & Mankiw, N Gregory
  (ReDIF-article, mcb:jmoncb:v:30:y:1998:i:4:p:699-720)
• Budget Deficits, Tax Incentives, and Inflation: A Surprising Lesson from the 1983–1984 Recovery
  NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (1989)
  by Martin Feldstein & Douglas W. Elmendorf
  (ReDIF-chapter, nbr:nberch:10943)
• Comment on "Game Over: Simulating Unsustainable Fiscal Policy"
  NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2012)
  by Douglas W. Elmendorf
  (ReDIF-chapter, nbr:nberch:12643)
• Comment on chapters 1 and 2
  NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2017)
  by Douglas W. Elmendorf
  (ReDIF-chapter, nbr:nberch:13696)
• Comment on "Reducing Social Security PRA Risk at the Individual Level: Lifecycle Funds and No-Loss Strategies"
  NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2009)
  by Douglas W. Elmendorf
  (ReDIF-chapter, nbr:nberch:4544)
• Taxes, Budget Deficits ad Consumer Spending: Some New Evidence
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (1987)
  by Martin Feldstein & Douglas W. Elmendorf
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:2355)
• Budget Deficits, Tax Incentives and Inflation: A Surprising Lesson From The 1983-84 Recovery
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (1989)
  by Martin Feldstein & Douglas W. Elmendorf
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:2819)
• Dynamic Scoring: A Progress Report on Why, When, and How
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2025)
  by Douglas W. Elmendorf & R. Glenn Hubbard & Heidi L. Williams
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:33425)
• Taxation of Labor Income and the Demand For Risky Assets
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (1991)
  by Douglas W. Elmendorf & Miles S. Kimball
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:3904)
• The Effect of News on Bond Prices: Evidence from the United Kingdom 1900-1920
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (1992)
  by Douglas Elmendorf & Mary Hirshfeld & David Weil
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:4234)
• Demographic Characteristics and the Public Bundle
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (1993)
  by David M. Cutler & Douglas W. Elmendorf & Richard J. Zeckhauser
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:4283)
• The Deficit Gamble
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (1995)
  by Laurence Ball & Douglas W. Elmendorf & N. Gregory Mankiw
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:5015)
• Restraining the Leviathan: Property Tax Limitation in Massachusetts
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (1997)
  by David M. Cutler & Douglas W. Elmendorf & Richard J. Zeckhauser
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:6196)
• Government Debt
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (1998)
  by Douglas W. Elmendorf & N. Gregory Mankiw
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:6470)
• Fiscal Policy and Social Security Policy During the 1990s
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2001)
  by Douglas W. Elmendorf & Jeffrey B. Liebman & David W. Wilcox
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:8488)
• Labor Market Effects of the Administrator's Health Proposal
  National Tax Journal, National Tax Association;National Tax Journal (1994)
  by Elmendorf, Douglas W. & Hamilton, Douglas R.
  (ReDIF-article, ntj:journl:v:47:y:1994:i:3:p:485-96)
• Short-Run Effects of Fiscal Policy With Forward-Looking Financial Markets
  National Tax Journal, National Tax Association;National Tax Journal (2002)
  by Elmendorf, Douglas W. & Reifschneider, David L.
  (ReDIF-article, ntj:journl:v:55:y:2002:i:3:p:357-86)
• Distributional Effects of the 2001 and 2003 Tax Cuts: How Do Financing and Behavioral Responses Matter?
  National Tax Journal, National Tax Association;National Tax Journal (2008)
  by Elmendorf, Douglas W. & Furman, Jason & Gale, William G. & Harris, Benjamin H.
  (ReDIF-article, ntj:journl:v:61:y:2008:i:3:p:365-80)
• Four Observations about the Federal Budget
  Business Economics, Palgrave Macmillan;National Association for Business Economics (2011)
  by Douglas W Elmendorf
  (ReDIF-article, pal:buseco:v:46:y:2011:i:3:p:139-143)
• Choices for Federal Spending and Taxes
  Business Economics, Palgrave Macmillan;National Association for Business Economics (2012)
  by Douglas W Elmendorf
  (ReDIF-article, pal:buseco:v:47:y:2012:i:3:p:161-164)
• CBO’s Outlook for the Economy in February 2014
  Business Economics, Palgrave Macmillan;National Association for Business Economics (2014)
  by Douglas W Elmendorf
  (ReDIF-article, pal:buseco:v:49:y:2014:i:3:p:142-148)
• Designing Federal Budget Policy to Spur Economic Growth
  Business Economics, Palgrave Macmillan;National Association for Business Economics (2015)
  by Douglas W Elmendorf
  (ReDIF-article, pal:buseco:v:50:y:2015:i:4:p:162-168)
• Federal policy and economic growth
  Business Economics, Palgrave Macmillan;National Association for Business Economics (2017)
  by Douglas W. Elmendorf
  (ReDIF-article, pal:buseco:v:52:y:2017:i:3:d:10.1057_s11369-017-0049-x)
• Our troubling fiscal situation
  Business Economics, Palgrave Macmillan;National Association for Business Economics (2019)
  by Douglas W. Elmendorf
  (ReDIF-article, pal:buseco:v:54:y:2019:i:2:d:10.1057_s11369-018-00115-2)
• Demographic Characteristics and the Public Bundle
  Public Finance = Finances publiques, (1993)
  by Cutler, David M & Elmendorf, Douglas W & Zeckhauser, Richard J
  (ReDIF-article, pfi:pubfin:v:48:y:1993:i:supplement:p:178-98)
• The Effect of News on Bond Prices: Evidence from the United Kingdom, 1900-1920
  The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press (1996)
  by Elmendorf, Douglas W & Hirschfeld, Mary L & Weil, David N
  (ReDIF-article, tpr:restat:v:78:y:1996:i:2:p:341-44)