Alan Auerbach

Robert D. Burch Professor of Economics and Law
Director, Robert D. Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance

Courses - 

  • Economics 131, Public Economics, "Fall 2023"
  • Economics 230A, Public Economics, "Fall 2023"
  • Books

    Working Papers

      "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]

      "The Marginal Net Taxation of Americans’ Labor Supply" with David Altig, Elias Ilin, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Victor Ye, June 2023 [PDF]

       "Demand Stimulus as Social Policy" with Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Daniel Murphy, May 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]