Douglas W. Elmendorf

Harvard Kennedy School

Dean and Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy

79 John F. Kennedy Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

United States

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Government Debt

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Government Debt

NBER Working Paper No. w6470
Number of pages: 94 Posted: 02 Sep 2000 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2010
Douglas W. Elmendorf and N. Gregory Mankiw
Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard University - Department of Economics
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Government Debt

Posted: 03 Jul 1998
Douglas W. Elmendorf and N. Gregory Mankiw
Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard University - Department of Economics

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The Evolution of Household Income Volatility

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The Evolution of Household Income Volatility

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 08 Sep 2012
Karen E. Dynan, Douglas W. Elmendorf and Daniel E. Sichel
Harvard University, Harvard Kennedy School and Wellesley College
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income volatility, income dynamics, household income, household economic security

The Evolution of Household Income Volatility

FEDS Working Paper No. 2007-61
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 04 Dec 2007
Daniel E. Sichel, Karen E. Dynan and Douglas W. Elmendorf
Wellesley College, Harvard University and Harvard Kennedy School
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Household income, labor income, volatility, PSID, Great Moderation

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Can Financial Innovation Help to Explain the Reduced Volatility of Economic Activity?

FEDs Working Paper No. 2005-54
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 05 Jan 2006
Karen E. Dynan, Douglas W. Elmendorf and Daniel E. Sichel
Harvard University, Harvard Kennedy School and Wellesley College
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Economic fluctuations, volatility, financial innovation, financial deregulation

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Should America Save for its Old Age? Population Aging, National Saving, and Fiscal Policy

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 03 Aug 2000
Douglas W. Elmendorf and Louise Sheiner
Harvard Kennedy School and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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aging, saving

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Restraining the Leviathan: Property Tax Limitation in Massachusetts

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Restraining the Leviathan: Property Tax Limitation in Massachusetts

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Finance and Economics Discussion Series No. 97-47
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 20 Apr 1998
David M. Cutler, Douglas W. Elmendorf and Richard J. Zeckhauser
Harvard University - Department of Economics, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Restraining the Leviathan: Property Tax Limitation in Massachusetts

NBER Working Paper No. w6196
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 12 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 07 Jun 2021
David M. Cutler, Douglas W. Elmendorf and Richard J. Zeckhauser
Harvard University - Department of Economics, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Declining Required Reserves and the Volatility of the Federal Funds Rate

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 25 Oct 1997
James A. Clouse and Douglas W. Elmendorf
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Harvard Kennedy School
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Demographic Characteristics and the Public Bundle

NBER Working Paper No. w4283
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 27 Apr 2000 Last Revised: 17 Mar 2021
David M. Cutler, Douglas W. Elmendorf and Richard J. Zeckhauser
Harvard University - Department of Economics, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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The Deficit Gamble

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The Deficit Gamble

NBER Working Paper No. w5015
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 27 Jun 2000 Last Revised: 17 Mar 2021
Laurence Ball, Douglas W. Elmendorf and N. Gregory Mankiw
Johns Hopkins University - Department of Economics, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard University - Department of Economics
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The Deficit Gamble

Posted: 04 Sep 1998
Laurence Ball, Douglas W. Elmendorf and N. Gregory Mankiw
Johns Hopkins University - Department of Economics, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard University - Department of Economics

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Do Provisional Estimates of Output Miss Economic Turning Points?

FRB FEDS Discussion Paper No. 2001-52
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 15 Dec 2001
Karen E. Dynan and Douglas W. Elmendorf
Harvard University and Harvard Kennedy School
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Fiscal Policy and Social Security Policy During the 1990s

NBER Working Paper No. w8488
Number of pages: 91 Posted: 28 Sep 2001 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2021
Douglas W. Elmendorf, Jeffrey B. Liebman and David W. Wilcox
Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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Budget Deficits, Tax Incentives and Inflation: a Surprising Lesson from the 1983-84 Recovery

NBER Working Paper No. w2819
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 16 Jun 2001 Last Revised: 17 Mar 2021
Martin S. Feldstein and Douglas W. Elmendorf
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) (deceased) and Harvard Kennedy School
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Distributional Effects of the 2001 and 2003 Tax Cuts: How Do Financing and Behavioral Responses Matter?

National Tax Journal, Vol. 61, No. 3, 2008
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 02 Feb 2011
William G. Gale, Douglas W. Elmendorf, Jason Furman and Benjamin H. Harris
Brookings Institution, Harvard Kennedy School, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Brookings Institution
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tax cuts, distributional effect, tax policy

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The Effect of News on Bond Prices: Evidence from the United Kingdom 1900-1920

NBER Working Paper No. w4234
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 01 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2021
Douglas W. Elmendorf, David N. Weil and Mary L hirschfeld
Harvard Kennedy School, Brown University - Department of Economics and Occidental College
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Taxes, Budget Deficits Ad Consumer Spending: Some New Evidence

NBER Working Paper No. w2355
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 04 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 10 Jun 2021
Martin S. Feldstein and Douglas W. Elmendorf
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) (deceased) and Harvard Kennedy School
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'Dynamic Scoring': Why and How to Include Macroeconomic Effects in Budget Estimates for Legislative Proposals

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 17 Oct 2015
Douglas W. Elmendorf
Harvard Kennedy School
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federal budget, budget estimates, dynamic scoring, macroeconomic effects

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Taxation of Labor Income and the Demand for Risky Assets

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Taxation of Labor Income and the Demand for Risky Assets

NBER Working Paper No. w3904
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 14 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2021
Douglas W. Elmendorf and Miles S. Kimball
Harvard Kennedy School and University of Colorado Boulder
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Taxation of Labor Income and the Demand for Risky Assets

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Finance & Econ. Disc. Series 96-32
Posted: 01 Oct 1996
Douglas W. Elmendorf and Miles S. Kimball
Harvard Kennedy School and University of Colorado Boulder

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Short-Run Effects of Fiscal Policy with Forward-Looking Financial Markets

Posted: 25 Mar 2003
Douglas W. Elmendorf and David Reifschneider
Harvard Kennedy School and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

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The Effect of Deficit-Reduction Laws on Real Interest Rates

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Finance and Econ. Disc. Series 96-44
Posted: 20 Jan 1997
Douglas W. Elmendorf
Harvard Kennedy School

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