MIT Dept. of Economics Working Papers Series: Recent submissions

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    • Pensions, Taxes, and the Budgetary Process 

      Diamond, Peter (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012-08-13)
      Comparison of the treatment of the needs for flexibility and stability in the income taxation of earnigns and Social Security and their treatment in the budgetary process.

    • Cycles of Distrust: An Economic Model 

      Acemoglu, Daron; Wolitzky, Alexander (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012-06-17)
      We propose a model of cycles of distrust and conflict. Overlapping generations of agents from two groups sequentially play coordination games under incomplete information about whether the other side consists of “extremists” ...

    • Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality: Evidence from the NOx Budget Program and Ozone Reductions 

      Deschênes, Olivier; Greenstone, Michael; Shapiro, Joseph S. (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012-07-15)
      The economic costs of environmental regulations have been widely debated since the U.S. began to restrict pollution emissions more than four decades ago. Using detailed production data from nearly 1.2 million plant ...