Peter R. Orszag

Lazard Asset Management

30 Rockefeller Plaza

New York, NY 10112

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

27

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155

Scholarly Papers (27)

1.

Efficiency and Tax Incentives: The Case for Refundable Tax Credits

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 59, No. 23, 2006, New York University, Law and Economics Research Paper No. 06-50
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 08 Nov 2006
Lily L. Batchelder, Fred T. Goldberg and Peter R. Orszag
New York University School of Law, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Lazard Asset Management
Downloads 1,402 (28,918)
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tax incentives, efficiency, externalities, Pigouvian subsidies, income smoothing, automatic stabilizer, lifetime taxation

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A Summary of Saving Social Security: A Balanced Approach

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 20 May 2004
Peter A. Diamond and Peter R. Orszag
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and Lazard Asset Management
Downloads 902 (54,298)
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Social Security, actuarial balance, individual accounts

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Show & Tell: An Analysis of Corporate Climate Messaging and its Financial Impacts

HKU Jockey Club Enterprise Sustainability Global Research Institute - Archive
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 22 Apr 2023 Last Revised: 13 Dec 2024
Harvard Kennedy School, Imperial College London, Lazard, Imperial College London - Accounting, Finance, and Macroeconomics and Lazard Asset Management
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climate change, carbon emissions, disclosure, science based and CDP targets, earnings calls, financial cost of carbon

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Slower Productivity and Higher Inequality: Are They Related?

Peterson Institute for International Economics Working Paper No. 2018-4
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 21 Jun 2018
Jason Furman and Peter R. Orszag
Harvard Kennedy School and Lazard Asset Management
Downloads 673 (80,032)
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competition, productivity, inequality, economic dynamism

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Economic Effects of Sustained Budget Deficits

National Tax Journal, Vol. 56, No. 3, 2003
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 04 Feb 2011
William G. Gale and Peter R. Orszag
Brookings Institution and Lazard Asset Management
Downloads 639 (85,451)

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budget deficit

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American Economic Policy in the 1990's

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 01 Feb 2002
Jeffrey A. Frankel and Peter R. Orszag
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Lazard Asset Management
Downloads 496 (117,305)
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Budget Deficits, National Saving, and Interest Rates

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, No. 2, 2004
Number of pages: 83 Posted: 05 Feb 2011
William G. Gale and Peter R. Orszag
Brookings Institution and Lazard Asset Management
Downloads 364 (167,976)
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deficit, budget, saving, interest rates

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Deficits, Interest Rates, and the User Cost of Capital: A Reconsideration of the Effects of Tax Policy on Investment

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 02 Aug 2005
William G. Gale and Peter R. Orszag
Brookings Institution and Lazard Asset Management
Downloads 249 (250,218)
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deficits, interest rates, user cost capital, tax policy

An Assessment of the Proposals of the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security

Number of pages: 78 Posted: 15 Aug 2002
Peter A. Diamond and Peter R. Orszag
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and Lazard Asset Management
Downloads 181 (337,099)
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Social security, individual accounts, actuarial balance

An Assessment of the Proposals of the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security

NBER Working Paper No. w9097
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 01 Aug 2002 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2022
Peter A. Diamond and Peter R. Orszag
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and Lazard Asset Management
Downloads 62 (721,389)
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Population Dynamics and Convergence in Fertility Rates

IoES Working Paper No. W99:12
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 16 Jun 2001
University of Reykjavik, Lazard Asset Management and Willis Towers Watson - Reigate (Surrey Office)
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The Budget Outlook and Options for Fiscal Policy

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 05 May 2002
Alan J. Auerbach, William G. Gale and Peter R. Orszag
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics, Brookings Institution and Lazard Asset Management
Downloads 225 (274,647)
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budget, surplus, fiscal policy, trust funds

The Budget Outlook and Options for Fiscal Policy

Posted: 08 Jun 2002
Alan J. Auerbach, William G. Gale and Peter R. Orszag
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics, Brookings Institution and Lazard Asset Management

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Budget, surplus, fiscal policy, trust funds

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The Value for Money of Annuities in the UK: Theory, Experience and Policy

Journal of Pensions Management, May 2000
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 07 Mar 2012
Mamta Murthi, J. Michael Orszag and Peter R. Orszag
World Bank, Willis Towers Watson - Reigate (Surrey Office) and Lazard Asset Management
Downloads 221 (280,811)
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annuities, money’s worth ratios, adverse selection

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Distributional Effects of the 2001 and 2003 Tax Cuts and Their Financing

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 19 Jul 2004
William G. Gale, Peter R. Orszag and Isaac Shapiro
Brookings Institution, Lazard Asset Management and Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP)
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2001 and 2003 tax cuts, distributional effects, tax increases, spending cuts

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Economic Effects of Making the 2001 and 2003 Tax Cuts Permanent

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 22 Aug 2004
William G. Gale and Peter R. Orszag
Brookings Institution and Lazard Asset Management
Downloads 141 (416,990)
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2001, 2003, tax, cuts, permanent, effects

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How the Growing Gap in Life Expectancy May Affect Retirement Benefits and Reforms

NBER Working Paper No. w23329
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 17 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2023
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics, University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy, Wellesley College, Brookings Institution, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), University of California, Berkeley - Department of Demography, Osprey Point Consulting, Lazard Asset Management, Brookings Institution, University of Southern California - Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, Brown University - Department of Economics, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics and University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston
Downloads 130 (444,537)
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Saving Incentives for Low- and Middle-Income Families: Evidence from a Field Experiment with H&R Block

NBER Working Paper No. w11680
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 13 Dec 2005 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2022
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Brookings Institution, Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Lazard Asset Management and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
Downloads 87 (597,143)

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Saving Incentives for Low- and Middle-Income Families: Evidence from a Field Experiment with H&R Block

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5332
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 05 Jan 2006
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Brookings Institution, Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Lazard Asset Management and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
Downloads 30 (970,091)
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Retirement savings, field experiment

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Improving Opportunities and Incentives for Saving by Middle- and Low-Income Households

PATH TO PROSPERITY, pp. 93-124, Jason Furman, Jason E. Bordoff, eds., Brookings Institution Press 2008
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 05 Feb 2011
William G. Gale, Peter R. Orszag and Jonathan Gruber
Brookings Institution, Lazard Asset Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics
Downloads 97 (551,269)

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retirement, savings, IRA, 401(k)

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Saving Incentives for Low- and Middle-Income Families: Why is the Saver's Credit Not More Effective?

Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol. 5, Nos. 2-3, pp. 647-661, April-May 2007
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 04 Feb 2011
Brookings Institution, Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Lazard Asset Management, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics
Downloads 90 (577,905)
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Saver's Credit

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Distributional Effects of Defined Contribution Plans and Individual Retirement Arrangements

National Tax Journal, Vol. 57, No. 3, 2004
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 05 Feb 2011
Brookings Institution, Lazard Asset Management, Maxwell School and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 88 (585,859)
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retirement savings, taxes

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Labor's Share in Hungary

Financial and Economic Review, Vol. 14. Issue 2. pp. 5-24, June 2015, Willis Towers Watson Technical Paper 2756973
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 05 Apr 2016
J. Michael Orszag and Peter R. Orszag
Willis Towers Watson - Reigate (Surrey Office) and Lazard Asset Management
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national income accounting, factor income, income distribution

Does the Social Security Earnings Test Affect Labor Supply and Benefits Receipt?

NBER Working Paper No. w7923
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 25 Sep 2000 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2022
Jonathan Gruber and Peter R. Orszag
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and Lazard Asset Management
Downloads 61 (727,114)
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Does the Social Security Earnings Test Affect Labor Supply and Benefits Receipt?

Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, 2000
Posted: 09 Mar 2010
Jonathan Gruber and Peter R. Orszag
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and Lazard Asset Management

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The Maturity Structure of Administrative Costs: Theory and UK Experience

Private Pensions Series, No. 3, December 2000
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 11 Mar 2012
Mamta Murthi, J. Michael Orszag and Peter R. Orszag
World Bank, Willis Towers Watson - Reigate (Surrey Office) and Lazard Asset Management
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charges, individual accounts, pensions, front-loading, implicit yields, UK

23.

A New Round of Tax Cuts?

Posted: 30 Aug 2002
William G. Gale and Peter R. Orszag
Brookings Institution and Lazard Asset Management

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Assessing the Plans Proposed by the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security

Posted: 26 Jul 2002
Peter A. Diamond and Peter R. Orszag
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and Lazard Asset Management

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The Changing Budget Outlook: Causes and Implications

Posted: 21 Nov 2001
William G. Gale, Peter R. Orszag and Gene Sperling
Brookings Institution, Lazard Asset Management and Brookings Institution

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Cross-Tested Defined Contribution Plans: A Response to Professor Zelinsky

Buffalo Law Review, Vol. 49, P. 629, 2001
Posted: 13 Nov 2001
Peter R. Orszag and Norman P. Stein
Lazard Asset Management and Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law

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Tax Stimulus Options in the Aftermath of the Terrorist Attack

Posted: 03 Oct 2001
William G. Gale, Peter R. Orszag and Gene Sperling
Brookings Institution, Lazard Asset Management and Brookings Institution

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