Stephen Zeldes
Benjamin Rosen Professor of Finance and Economics
Academic Director
BS, Brown, 1978; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984
Year joined: 1996
E-mail: spz1@columbia.edu
Journal articles
"How Should Public Pension Plans Invest?"
American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings
(2009)
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"Do the Rich Save More?"
Journal of Political Economy
(2004)
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"Commentary"
Economic Policy Review
(2002)
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"The Importance of Bequest and Life-Cycle Saving in Capital Accumulation: A New Answer"
American Economic Review
(2002)
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"Social Security Privatization: A Structure for Analysis"
American Economic Review
(1996)
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"Precautionary Saving and Social Insurance"
Journal of Political Economy
(1995)
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"The Importance of Precautionary Motives for Explaining Individual and Aggregate Saving"
Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy
(1994)
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"Expanding the Life-Cycle Model: Precautionary Saving and Public Policy"
American Economic Review
(1994)
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"Dynamic Efficiency in the Gifts Economy"
Journal of Monetary Economics
(1993)
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"The Consumption of Stockholders and Nonstockholders"
Journal of Financial Economics
(1991)
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"Production, Sales, and the Change in Inventories: An Identity That Doesn't Add Up"
Journal of Monetary Economics
(1989)
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"Optimal Consumption with Stochastic Income: Deviations from Certainty Equivalence"
Quarterly Journal of Economics
(1989)
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"Consumption and Liquidity Constraints: An Empirical Investigation"
Journal of Political Economy
(1989)
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"Rational Ponzi Games"
International Economic Review
(1988)
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"Seasonality, Cost Shocks, and the Production Smoothing Model of Inventories"
Econometrica
(1988)
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"Ricardian Consumers with Keynesian Propensities"
American Economic Review
(1986)
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Working papers
"Cost Savings and the Freezing of Corporate Pension Plans"
Working Paper
(2012)
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"The Market Value of Social Security"
Working paper
(2011)
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"Valuing and Hedging Defined Benefit Pension Obligations: The Role of Stocks Revisited"
Working paper
(2006)
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"How Do Household Portfolio Shares Vary with Age?"
Working paper
(2004)
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Books
Innovations in Retirement Financing
(2002)
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Chapters
"Market Valuation of Accrued Social Security Benefits"
Measuring and Managing Federal Financial Risk
(2010)
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"Reforming Social Security with Progressive Personal Accounts"
Social Security Policy in a Changing Environment
(2009)
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"Social Security Money's Worth"
Prospects for Social Security Reform
(1999)
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"Would a Privatized Social Security System Really Pay a Higher Rate of Return?"
Framing the Social Security Debate: Values, Politics, and Economics
(1998)
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"Ponzi Games"
New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance
(1992)
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