Alan Auerbach
Robert
D. Burch Professor of Economics and Law
Director, Robert
D. Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public
Finance
Courses -
- Law 260.1, Tax Policy and Public Finance, Fall 2024
- Economics 230A, Public Economics, Fall 2024
Books
"Taxing Profit in a Global Economy", with Michael Devereux, Michael Keen, Paul Oosterhaus, Wolfgang Schön, and John Vella, January 2021
Working Papers
"Robust Fiscal Stabilization" with Danny Yagan, November 2024 [PDF][Podcast]
"The Marginal Net Taxation of Americans’ Labor Supply" with David Altig, Elias Ilin, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Victor Ye, September 2024 [PDF]
"The Sound of Silence: Ignoring the US Fiscal Problem" with William Gale, July 2024 [PDF]
"Inflation’s Fiscal Impact on American Households" with David Altig, Erin Eidschun, Laurence Kotlikoff and Victor Yifan Ye, June 2024 [PDF]
"Demand Stimulus as Social Policy" with Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Daniel Murphy, May 2024 [PDF] Appendix [PDF]
"The Federal Budget Outlook: Update for 2024" with William Gale, March 2024 [PDF]
"The Federal Budget Outlook: An Update" with William Gale, July 2023 [PDF]
"Macroeconomic Frameworks: Reconciling Evidence and Model Predictions from Demand Shocks" with Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Daniel Murphy, February 2023 [PDF]
"The COVID Pandemic and the Federal Budget" with William Gale, August 2022 [PDF]
"U.S. Inequality and Fiscal Progressivity -- An Intragenerational Accounting", with Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Darryl Koehler, July 2022 [PDF] [online appendix]
"Tax Policy Design with Low Interest Rates" with William Gale, September 2021 [PDF]
"Fiscal Multipliers in the COVID19 Recession" with Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Peter McCrory, and Daniel Murphy, September 2021 [PDF]
"Inequality, Fiscal Policy and Covid19 Restrictions in a Demand-Determined Economy" with Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Daniel Murphy, June 2021 [PDF]
"Effects of COVID-19 on Federal, State, and Local Government Budgets" with William Gale, Byron Lutz and Louise Sheiner, October 2020 [PDF]
"Effects of Fiscal Policy on Credit Markets", with Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Daniel Murphy, January 2020 [PDF]
"Local Fiscal Multipliers and Fiscal Spillovers in the United States", with Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Daniel Murphy, October 2019 [PDF]
"Revisiting the Federal Budget Outlook", with William Gale and Aaron Krupkin, August 2019 [PDF]
"Residual Profit Allocation by Income", with Michael P. Devereux, Paul Oosterhuis, Wolfgang Schön and John Vella, March 2019 [PDF]
"If Not Now, When? New Estimates of the Federal Budget Outlook", with William G. Gale and Aaron Krupkin, February 2019 [PDF]
"Tax Equivalences and their Implications", October 2018 [PDF]
"The Federal Budget Outlook: We Are Not Winning" with William G. Gale and Aaron Krupkin, July 2018 [PDF]
"The New Tax Bill – Winners and Losers" with Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Darryl Koehler, June 2018 [PDF]
"Propagation and Smoothing of Shocks in Alternative Social Security Systems" with Lorenz Kueng, Ronald Lee and Yury Yatsynovich, Updated April 2018 [PDF]
"The Federal Budget Outlook: Even Crazier After All These Years" with William G. Gale and Aaron Krupkin, April 2018 [PDF]
"Cash-Flow Taxes in an International Setting", with Michael P. Devereux, November 2017 [PDF]
"Fiscal Policy", November 2017 [PDF]
"Macroeconomic Modeling of Tax Policy: A Comparison of Current Methodologies" with Itai Grinberg, Thomas Barthold, Nicholas Bull, W. Gavin Elkins, Pamela Moomau, Rachel Moore, Benjamin Page, Brandon Pecoraro, and Kyle Pomerleau, November 2017 [PDF]
"International Tax Planning Under the Destination-Based Cash Flow Tax" with Michael P. Devereux, Michael Keen and John Vella, October 2017 [PDF]
"Demystifying the Destination-Based Cash-Flow Tax", September 2017 [PDF]
"Fiscal Stimulus and Fiscal Sustainability" with Yuriy Gorodnichenko, August 2017 [PDF]
"The Fiscal Outlook in a Period of Policy Uncertainty", with William Gale, August 2017 [PDF]
"Assessing the House Republicans’ “A Better Way” Tax Reform", with Laurence Kotlikoff and Darryl Koehler, June 2017 [PDF]
AEI Economic Perspectives - "Border Adjustment and the Dollar", February 2017 [PDF]
"Notes on the US Wealth Effect of Border Adjustment", February 2017 [PDF]
"Destination-Based Cash Flow Taxation" with Michael P. Devereux, Michael Keen and John Vella, February 2017 [PDF]
"The Fiscal Outlook at the Beginning of the Trump Administration" with William Gale, January 2017 [PDF]
"The Role of Border Adjustments in International Taxation" with Douglas Holtz-Eakin, December 2016 [PDF]
"Is Uncle Sam Inducing the Elderly to Retire?" with Laurence Kotlikoff, Darryl Koehler, and Manny Yu, October 2016 [PDF]
"Once More Unto the Breach: The Deteriorating Fiscal Outlook" with William Gale, March 2016 [PDF]
"The Fiscal Problem: Gone Today, Here Tomorrow", with William Gale, September 2015 [PDF]
"Capital Taxation in the 21st Century", with Kevin Hassett, January 2015 [PDF]
"Fiscal Uncertainty and How to Deal with It", November 2014 [PDF]
"Effects of Fiscal Shocks in a Globalized World", with Yuriy Gorodnichenko, October 2014 [PDF]
"Forgotten but Not Gone: The Long-Term Fiscal Imbalance" with William G. Gale, September 2014 [PDF]
"Taxation and Saving - A Retrospective", December 2013 [PDF]
"Fiscal Myopia", with William G. Gale, September 2013 [PDF]
"Capital Income Taxation, Corporate Taxation, Wealth Transfer Taxes and Consumption Tax Reforms", August 2013 [PDF]
"Output Spillovers from Fiscal Policy", with Yuriy Gorodnichenko, January 2013 [PDF]
"Budget Rules and Fiscal Policy", November 2012 [PDF]
"The Fall and Rise of Keynesian Fiscal Policy", May 2012 [PDF]
"The Mirrlees Review: A U.S. Perspective", May 2012 [PDF]
"The Federal Budget Outlook: No News Is Bad News", with William G. Gale, August 2012. [PDF]
"(Still) Tempting Fate", with William G. Gale, August 2011. [PDF]
"Fiscal Multipliers in Recession and Expansion", with Yuriy Gorodnichenko, January 2012. [PDF]
"Long-Term Fiscal Sustainability in Major Economies", July 2011. [PDF]
"Tempting Fate: The Federal Budget Outlook", with William G. Gale, June 2011. [PDF]
"Fiscal Institutions for a Currency Union", May 2011. [PDF]