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Peter Diamond ";

Papers

The Base for Direct Taxation
with James Banks (University College London)
March 28, 2008

Behavioral Economics
Forthcoming in the Journal of Public Economics

An Interview with Peter Diamond
by Giuseppe Moscarini (Yale), and Randall Wright (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol 11, 2007, pages 543-565

Pensions for an Aging Population
December 2005

Conceptualization of Non-Financial Defined Contribution Systems
October 2005

Risk Sharing and the Welfare State
July 2005, Presented at the Roundtable on Economic Policy Conference in Tribute to Jean-Jacques Laffont

Social Security Reform in China: Issues and Options
Mukul Asher, Nicholas Barr, Peter Diamond, Edwin Lim, and James Mirrlees
January 2005, Policy Study of the China Economic Research and Advisory Programme

Social Security Reform in China: Issues and Options
CHINESE VERSION

Social Security Reform in China: Further Notes on Issues and Options
January 2005

Social Security Reform in China: Further Notes on Issues and Options
CHINESE VERSION

Reforming Public Pensions in the United States and the United Kingdom
May 2005, Presented at the London School of Economics, May 18, 2005.

Social Security Rules that Vary with Age
Peter Diamond
September 2003, Forthcoming in Pension Systems: Beyond Mandatory Retirement, Elsa Fornero and Paolo Sestito (eds), Edward Elgar. Paper prepared for 2003 CeRP Conference "Is Mandatory Retirement an Outdated Feature of Pension Systems?" Turin Italy, September 16, 2003.

A Summary of Saving Social Security: A Balanced Approach
Peter A. Diamond (MIT) and Peter R. Orszag (Brookings Institution)
July 2004

Quasi-Hyperbolic Discounting and Retirement
Peter Diamond and Botond Kaszegi
January 2003, Journal of Public Economics 87 (2003) pgs 1839-1872.

Issues in Social Security Reform with a Focus on Spain
Peter Diamond
November 2001

Social Security Investment in Equities
Peter Diamond and John Geanakoplos
September 2003, American Economic Review, Vol. 93, No. 4, pages 1047-1074.

What Stock Market Returns to Expect for the Future: An Update
Peter Diamond
July 2001

Evaluating Issues in Privatizing Social Security
Peter Diamond
Report of the Panel on Privatization of Social Security

Integrating Punishment and Efficiency Concerns in Punitive Damages for Reckless Disregard of Risk to Others
Peter Diamond
April 2002, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Vol. 18, No. 1, April 2002.

Adjusting One's Standard of Living: Two-Period Models
P. Diamond and J. Mirrlees
2000, in P.J. Hammond and G.D.Myles (eds.) Incentives, Organization, and Public Economics, papers in Honour of Sir James Mirrlees, Oxford University Press, 2000

Towards an Optimal Social Security Design
Peter Diamond
2000

Discussion of James-Smalhout-Vittas Paper, Administrative Costs and the Organization of Individual Account Systems: A Comparative Perspective
Peter Diamond

What Stock Market Returns to Expect for the Future
Peter Diamond
September 1999, An Issue in Brief: Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, Number 2.

Issues in Social Security Reform
Peter Diamond
in The Future of the Safety Net: Social Insurance and Employee Benefits in the Next Century, S. Friedman and D. Jacobs (eds), IRRA Research Volume, 2001

Delays in Claiming Social Security Benefits
Peter Diamond, Courtney Coile, Jonathan Gruber and Alain Jousten
2002, Journal of Public Economics, Vol 84, 2002, pages 357-385.

Social Security Reform, with a focus on Sweden
Peter Diamond

Discussion of Orszag-Stiglitz paper for World Bank conference: New Ideas about Old Age Security - The transparency myth
Peter Diamond

Social Security Trust Funds - Presentation at AEA session: In Memoriam: Robert Eisner
Peter Diamond

Angelo Costa Lecture, October 25, 1999 Social Security Reform, with a focus on Italy
Peter Diamond

Administrative Costs and Equilibrium Charges with Individual Accounts
Peter Diamond
edited by John B. Shoven

Taxation, Incomplete Markets and Social Security - Munich Lecture 1, "Pension Insurance Reform in Germany"
Peter Diamond
November 2000

Tinbergen Lecture October 13, 2000 Social Security Reform with a Focus on the Netherlands
Peter Diamond
October 2000

Social Security, the Government Budget, and National Savings
Peter Diamond
March 2005, In Samuelsonian Economics and the 21st Century volume, edited by Szenberg, Ramrattan, and Gottesman

Annuities and Individual Welfare
Jeffrey Brown, Thomas Davidoff and Peter Diamond
December 2005, American Economic Review, Vol 95, No 5, pp 1573-1589