David Love

Assistant Professor of Economics

Office: On leave, Columbia Business School, 2007-08
E-mail: dlove@williams.edu
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Department of Economics
Williams College
Williamstown, MA 01267

Education

Yale University, Ph.D., 2003
University of Michigan, B.A., 1996
Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Fields of Specialization

Macroeconomics
public finance
effect of tax-favored retirement accounts on national saving

Research

Publications and Working Papers

David Love, "Buffer Stock Saving in Retirement Accounts," Journal of Monetary Economics, 2006.

__________, "What Can the Life-Cycle Model Tell Us About 401(k) Contributions and Participation?," Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, forthcoming.

__________, "Measuring Dissaving out of Retirement Wealth," with Paul Smith, Proceedings: Ninety-Ninth Annual Conference, 2006. Washington, DC: National Tax Association, 2007, forthcoming.

__________, "Why Do Firms Offer Risky Defined Benefit Pension Plans?" with Paul Smith and David Wilcox, National Tax Journal, forthcoming.

__________, "Should the Old Play It Safe? Portfolio Choice in the Presence of Age-Dependent Background Risk," with Maria Perozek, 2006.

__________, "Do Households Have Enough Wealth for Retirement?" with Paul Smith and Lucy McNair, Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2007-17. Federal Reserve Board, 2007. Under review.

__________, "Grades, Course Evaluations, and Academic Incentives," with Matthew Kotchen, submitted to Education Economics, July 2006.

__________, "Do 401(k)s Substitute for IRAs?," June 2003.

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