Kent Smetters

Names

first:	Kent
last:	Smetters

Contact

email:
homepage:	http://irm.wharton.upenn.edu/Smetters2.htm
postal address:	The Wharton School 3641 Locust Walk, CPC 302 Philadelphia, PA 19131-6218 U.S.A.

Affiliations

• University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Financial Institutions Center
  • website
  • location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
• University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Pension Research Council
  • website
  • location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)

Research profile

author of:

• Simulating U.S. tax reform
  by David E. Altig & Alan J. Auerbach & Laurence J. Kotlikoff & Kent Smetters & Jan Walliser
• The (Interesting) Dynamic Properties of the Neoclassical Growth Model with CES Production
  by Kent Smetters
• Simulating U.S. Tax Reform
  by David Altig & Alan J. Auerbach & Laurence J. Kotlikoff & Kent A. Smetters & Jan Walliser
• Social Security: Privatization and Progressivity
  by Laurence J. Kotlikoff & Kent A. Smetters & Jan Walliser
• Opting Out of Social Security and Adverse Selection
  by Laurence J. Kotlikoff & Kent A. Smetters & Jan Walliser
• Finding a Way Out of America's Demographic Dilemma
  by Laurence J. Kotlikoff & Kent Smetters & Jan Walliser
• The Equivalence of the Social Security's Trust Fund Portfolio Allocation and Capital Income Tax Policy
  by Kent Smetters
• The Exchange Theory of Teenage Smoking and the Counterproductiveness of Moderate Regulation
  by Kent Smetters & Jennifer Gravelle
• Who Bears the Burden of the Corporate Tax in The Open Economy?
  by Jane Gravelle & Kent Smetters
• Controlling the Cost of Minimum Benefit Guarantees in Public Pension Conversions
  by Kent Smetters
• Ricardian Equivalence with Incomplete Household Risk Sharing
  by Shinichi Nishiyama & Kent Smetters
• Moral Hazard in Reinsurance Markets
  by Neil Doherty & Kent Smetters
• Trading with the Unborn: A New Perspective on Capital Income Taxation
  by Kent A. Smetters
• Consumption Taxes and Economic Efficiency in a Stochastic OLG Economy
  by Shinichi Nishiyama & Kent Smetters
• Thinking About Social Security's Trust Fund.
  by Kent Smetters
• Social Security: Privatization and Progressivity.
  by Kotlikoff, Laurence J. & Smetters, Kent A. & Walliser, Jan
• Discounting Inside the Washington D.C. Beltway
  by Coleman Bazelon & Kent Smetters
• Assessing fundamental tax reform
  by David E. Altig & Alan J. Auerbach & Laurence J. Kotlikoff & Kent Smetters & Jan Walliser
• Privatizing Social Security in the U.S. -- Comparing the Options
  by Laurence J. Kotlikoff & Kent Smetters & Jan Walliser
• The (Interesting) Dynamic Properties of the Neoclassical Growth Model with CES Production
  by Kent Smetters
• Insuring Against Terrorism: The Policy Challenge
  by Kent Smetters
• Measuring Social Security's Financial Problems
  by Jagadeesh Gokhale & Kent Smetters
• Social Security Privatization with Elastic Labor Supply and Second-Best Taxes
  by Kent Smetters
• Does Social Security Privatization Produce Efficiency Gains?
  by Shinichi Nishiyama & Kent Smetters
• Is the Social Security Trust Fund Worth Anything?
  by Kent Smetters
• Dropping Out of Social Security
  by Kent Smetters & Jan Walliser
• Is the Social Security Trust Fund a Store of Value?
  by Kent Smetters
• Ricardian equivalence: long-run Leviathan
  by Smetters, Kent
• Measuring Social Security’s Financial Problems
  by Jagadeesh Gokhale & Kent Smetters
• Mitigating America's demographic dilemma by pre-funding social security
  by Kotlikoff, Laurence J. & Smetters, Kent & Walliser, Jan
• Fiscal and generational imbalances: new budget measures for new budget priorities
  by Jagadeesh Gokhale & Kent Smetters
• Risk sharing across generations without publicly owned equities
  by Smetters, Kent
• Social Security Privatization with Elastic Labor Supply and Second-Best Taxes
  by Kent Smetters
• Opting out of social security
  by Smetters, Kent & Walliser, Jan
• Social Security Privatization with Income-Mortality Correlation
  by Shinichi Nishiyama & Kent Smetters
• Does Social Security Privatization Produce Efficiency Gains?
  by Shinichi Nishiyama & Kent Smetters
• Controlling the cost of minimum benefit guarantees in public pension conversions
  by SMETTERS, KENT
• The Coming Generational Storm
  by Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Kent Smetters, and Jan Walliser
• Consumption Taxes and Economic Efficiency with Idiosyncratic Wage Shocks
  by Shinichi Nishiyama & Kent Smetters
• Trading with the Unborn: A New Perspective on Capital Income Taxation
  by Kent A. Smetters
• Fiscal and Generational Imbalances: An Update
  by Jagadeesh Gokhale & Kent Smetters
  edited by
• The Effect of Pay-When-Needed Benefit Guarantees on the Impact of Social Security Privatization
  by Kent Smetters
  edited by
• Pricing Personal Account Benefit Guarantees: A Simplified Approach
  by Andrew Biggs & Clark Burdick & Kent Smetters
  edited by
• Distributional Effects in a General Equilibrium Analysis of Social Security
  by Laurence J. Kotlikoff & Kent Smetters & Jan Walliser
  edited by
• A Matter of Trust: Understanding Worldwide Public Pension Conversions
  by Kent Smetters & Walter E. Theseira
• Optimal Portfolio Choice with Wage-Indexed Social Security
  by Jialun Li & Kent Smetters
• Grade Non-Disclosure
  by Daniel Gottlieb & Kent Smetters
• Narrow Framing and Life Insurance
  by Daniel Gottlieb & Kent Smetters
• Optimal Annuitization with Stochastic Mortality Probabilities
  by Felix Reichling & Kent Smetters
• Moral Hazard in Reinsurance Markets
  by Neil Doherty & Kent Smetters
• Guaranteeing Defined Contribution Pensions: The Option to Buy Back a Defined Benefit Promise
  by Marie‐Eve Lachance & Olivia S. Mitchell & Kent Smetters
• Comment on: "Unfunded liabilities and uncertain fiscal financing" by Troy Davig, Eric M. Leeper, Todd B. Walker
  by Smetters, Kent
• Does the Open Economy Assumption Really Mean That Labor Bears the Burden of a Capital Income Tax?
  by Gravelle Jane G. & Smetters Kent A.
• The Optimal Design of Social Security Benefits
  by Shinichi Nishiyama & Kent Smetters
• Correspondence
  by Richard Brooks & Susan Helper & Patrick Bolton & David S. Scharfstein & Andrew Kamarck & Peter R. Orszag & Coleman Bazelon & Kent Smetters
• Top Ten Myths Of Social Security Reform
  by Jeffrey Brown & Kevin Hassett & Kent Smetters
• A Sharper Ratio: A General Measure for Correctly Ranking Non-Normal Investment Risks
  by Kent Smetters & Xingtan Zhang
• Could a Website Really Have Doomed the Health Exchanges? Multiple Equilibria, Initial Conditions and the Construction of the Fine
  by Florian Scheuer & Kent Smetters

editor of:

• The Pension Challenge: Risk Transfers and Retirement Income Security
  edited by Mitchell, Olivia S. & Smetters, Kent