Publications

Publications at Peer-reviewed Journals

• "Public Debt, Interest Rates, and Negative Shocks," AEA Papers and Proceedings , Vol. 110, pp. 137-140 (May 2020). [longer version with technical appendix and code]

• "Macroeconomic Effects of Reducing OASI to Payable Benefits: A Comparison of Seven Overlapping Generations Models," joint with Jaeger Nelson, Kerk Phillips, Seth Benzell, Efraim Berkovich, Robert Carroll, Guillermo Cuevas, Jason DeBacker, John Diamond, Jagadeesh Gokhale, Laurence Kotlikoff, James Mackie, Rachel Moore, Brandon Pecoraro, Brandon Pizzola, Victor Ye, and George Zodrow, National Tax Journal, 72:4, pp. 671-692 (Dec. 2019).

• "Integrating Microsimulation Models of Tax Policy into a DGE Macroeconomic Model," joint with Jason DeBacker and Kerk L. Phillips, Public Finance Review, 47:2, pp. 207-275 (Mar. 2019). [Python code and documentation for this paper is available at https://github.com/rickecon/TaxFuncIntegr.]

• "Natural Limits of Wealth Inequality and the Effectiveness of Tax Policy," joint with Scott Condie and Kerk L. Phillips, Public Finance Review , 47:1, pp. 32-57 (Jan. 2019).

• "Advantages of an Ellipse when Modeling Leisure Utility," joint with Kerk L. Phillips, Computational Economics, 51:3, pp. 513-533 (March 2018). [Python code for this paper is available at https://github.com/rickecon/EllipticUtility.]

• "Determinants of Short-term Lender Location and Interest Rates," joint with Taylor J. Canann, Journal of Financial Services Research, 48:3, pp. 235-262 (Dec. 2015).

• "OLG Life Cycle Model Transition Paths: Alternate Model Forecast Method," joint with Kerk L. Phillips., Computational Economics, 43:1, pp. 105-131 (Jan. 2014). [MATLAB code for this model is available at https://github.com/rickecon/AMF.]

• "Is Openness Inflationary? Policy Commitment and Imperfect Competition," Journal of Macroeconomics, 34:4, pp. 1095-1110 (Dec. 2012).

• "The Fertility Effect of Catastrophe: U.S. Hurricane Births," joint with Yingyao Hu and Zhong Zhao, Journal of Population Economics, 23:1, pp. 1-36 (Jan. 2010).

Books and Book Chapters

• Overlapping Generations Models for Policy Analysis: Theory and Computation, joint with Jason DeBacker, unpublished (April 2022). [table of contents, chapter 2, chapter 3, chapter 4, chapter 8, chapter 17]

• "Big Data Techniques as a Solution to Theory Problems," joint with Kenneth L. Judd and Kramer Quist, in Conquering Big Data with High Performance Computing, eds. Ritu Arora, Springer (2016). [view on Amazon]

• "Personal Income" and "Gross Domestic Product by State," 2015 Economic Report to the Governor, Utah Economic Council, David Eccles School of Business, and Governor's Office of Management and Budget, pp. 31-38 (2015).

• "Game Over: Simulating Unsustainable Fiscal Policy," joint with Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Kerk L. Phillips, Fiscal Policy After the Financial Crisis, eds. Alberto Alesina and Francesco Giavazzi, National Bureau of Economics Research, University of Chicago Press (2013).

• Three Essays on Openness, International Pricing, and Optimal Monetary Policy, Dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, Advisor: Russell Cooper (May 2008). [link to University of Texas at Austin library reference]

Other Publications

• • "What are the Effects of Utah Income Tax Rate Cuts?" Research in Focus, Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University (Feb. 2023).

  • "What Business Tax Reforms Would Be Best for Tennessee?" with Jason DeBacker, Research in Focus, Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University (Jan. 13, 2023).

  • "Taxing Income or Consumption: Macroeconomic and Distributional Effects for Italy," joint with with Diego d'Andria, Jason DeBacker, Jonathan Pycroft, and Magdalena Zachlod-Jelec, JRC Working Papers on Taxation and Structural Reforms, No. 13/2021 European Commission, Joint Research Center (November 2021).

  • "The Effect of Transition to Low-carbon Energy on Texas Tax Revenues: 2021-2050," joint with Jorge Barro and John Diamond, Report, Center for Public Finance, Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy (November. 9, 2021).

  • "Macroeconomic Analysis of Former Vice President Biden's Tax Proposals," joint with Benjamin R. Page, Jeffrey Rohaly, Thornton Matheson, Gordon B. Mermin, and Jason DeBacker, Brief, Tax Policy Center at the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution (July 21, 2021).

  • "A Detailed Macroeconomic Analysis of President Biden's 2020 Campaign Tax Proposals," joint with Jason DeBacker and Benjamin R. Page, Working Paper, Tax Policy Center at the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution (July 20, 2021).

  • "A Sensitivity Analysis of a Detailed Macroeconomic Analysis of President Biden's 2020 Campaign Tax Proposals," joint with Jason DeBacker and Benjamin R. Page, Working Paper, Tax Policy Center at the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution (July 20, 2021).

  • "Revenue and Distributional Impacts of the American Rescue Plan Act," joint with Jason DeBacker, Max Ghenis, and Cody Kallen, Quantitative Notes, 2021-2, Open Research Group, Inc. (March 18, 2021).

  • "Simulating Effects of the American Rescue Plan Act," joint with Jason DeBacker and Cody Kallen, Quantitative Notes, 2021-1, Open Research Group, Inc. (March 16, 2021).

  • "U.S. Deficits, Debt, and Dimensions of Analysis," with Jorge Barro and Joyce Beebe, Policy Brief: Recommendations for the New Administration, Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy (January 27, 2021). 

  • "An Analysis of Joe Biden's Tax Proposals," with Kyle Pomerleau and Jason DeBacker, AEI Report, American Enterprise Institute (June 15, 2020).

  • "EDGE-M3: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Micro-Macro Model for the EU Member States,'' joint with Diego d'Andria, Jason DeBacker, Jonathan Pycroft, Wouter van der Wielen, and Magdalena Zachlod-Jelec, JRC Working Papers on Taxation and Structural Reforms No. 03/2020, JRC Technical Reports, European Commission (March 2020).

  • "Dynamic Analysis of EITC Expansion," Quantitative Notes, 2018-2, Open Research Group, Inc. (April 4, 2018).

  • "Dynamic Analysis of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act," joint with Jason DeBacker, Quantitative Notes, 2018-1, Open Research Group, Inc. (Feb. 2, 2018).

  • "Dynamic Analysis of Corporate Income Tax Rate Cut," Quantitative Notes, 2017-4, Open Research Group, Inc. (Nov. 29, 2017).

  • "Government Revenue and Distributional Effects of Tax Cuts and Jobs Act," joint with Haylee Ham, Quantitative Notes, 2017-3, Open Research Group, Inc. (Nov. 29, 2017).

• "Integration of the Surgeon's Certificates with the Pension Application Groupings in the Union Army Dataset," CPE Working Paper Series, Center for Population Economics, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (August, 2003, revision April 2005). [CPE site link]