James M. Poterba
James M. Poterba | |
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Born | July 13, 1958 New York, N.Y. |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Oxford University |
Occupation | Academic |
Years active | Since 1994 |
Employer | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Organization | President of NBER |
Known for | Public finance Taxation Retirement plans |
Board member of | TIAA-CREF Alfred P. Sloan Foundation |
Awards | NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing |
Website | Poterba at MIT |
James M. Poterba is the Mitsui Professor of Economics at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) . He is also the President of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a non-profit research organization. Since 2006, he has been a trustee of TIAA-CREF.
Research interests include how taxation affects the economic decisions of households and firms. His recent work has emphasized the effect of taxation on the financial behavior of households, particularly their saving and portfolio decisions. He has been especially interested in the analysis of tax-deferred retirement saving programs such as 401(k) plans and in the role of annuities in financing retirement consumption.
Poterba was awarded the NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing in 1999. He was honored "for his influential and comprehensive review of factors determining the savings of individuals over their lifetimes and the private accumulation of wealth for retirement."[1]
Papers
Poterba has authored/co-authored over 130 papers. The following papers are the most cited, ranked from most to least cited.
Year | Study |
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1991 | Investor Diversification and International Equity Markets[2] |
1987 | Mean Reversion in Stock Prices: Evidence and Implications[3] |
1997 | New Evidence on the Money's Worth of Individual Annuities[4] |
1988 | What Moves Stock Prices?[5] |
1984 | The Persistence of Volatility and Stock Market Fluctuations[6] |
1984 | The Economic Effects of Dividend Taxation[7] |
1996 | Stock Ownership Patterns, Stock Market Fluctuations, and Consumption[8] |
1990 | Speculative Dynamics[9] |
Books
Poterba has co-edited two books.
- Warshawsky, Mark J.; Poterba, James M.; Mitchell, Olivia S.; Brown, Jeffrey R., eds. (2001). The Role of Annuity Markets in Financing Retirement. The MIT Press. p. 239. ISBN 978-0262025096
- Poterba, James M.; von Hagen, Jurgen, eds. (1999). Fiscal Institutions and Fiscal Performance (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report). University Of Chicago Press. p. 398. ISBN 978-0226676234
References
- ↑ "NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved December 29, 2015.
- ↑ French, Kenneth R.; Poterba, James M. (1991). Investor Diversification and International Equity Markets. NBER Working Paper No. w3609: SSRN.
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: CS1 maint: location (link) - ↑ Poterba, James M.; Summers, Lawrence H. (1987). Mean Reversion in Stock Prices: Evidence and Implications. NBER Working Paper No. w2343: SSRN.
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: CS1 maint: location (link) - ↑ Mitchell, Olivia S.; Poterba, James M.; Warshawsky, Mark J. (1997). New Evidence on the Money's Worth of Individual Annuities. NBER Working Paper No. w6002: SSRN.
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: CS1 maint: location (link) - ↑ Cutler, David M.; Poterba, James M.; Summers, Lawrence H. (1988). What Moves Stock Prices?. NBER Working Paper No. w2538.: SSRN.
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: CS1 maint: location (link) - ↑ Poterba, James M.; Summers, Lawrence H. (1984). The Persistence of Volatility and Stock Market Fluctuations. NBER Working Paper No. w1462: SSRN.
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: CS1 maint: location (link) - ↑ Poterba, James M.; Summers, Lawrence H. (1984). The Economic Effects of Dividend Taxation. NBER Working Paper No. w1353: SSRN.
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: CS1 maint: location (link) - ↑ Poterba, James M.; Samwick, Andrew A. (1996). Stock Ownership Patterns, Stock Market Fluctuations, and Consumption. NBER Working Paper No. R2027: SSRN.
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: CS1 maint: location (link) - ↑ Cutler, David M.; Poterba, James M.; Summers, Lawrence H. (1990). Speculative Dynamics. NBER Working Paper No. w324: SSRN.
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External links
- Home page
- Author page, Academic search (beta)
- James Poterba : Citation Profile, CitEc
- James Poterba, National Bureau of Economic Research
- RePEc/IDEAS
- Author page, SSRN