Peter A. Diamond
Institute Professor of Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Background
Peter A. Diamond is Institute Professor and Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His primary research interests include public finance, particularly Social Security, and the economics of uncertainty. Professor Diamond served as President of the National Academy of Social Insurance from 1994 to 1997 and co-chaired its panel on Privatization of Social Security. Professor Diamond was also a member of the expert panels for the 1991 and 1995 Advisory Councils on Social Security. He is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences and Past-President of Both the American Economic Association and the Econometric Society.
Professor Diamond received his B.A in Mathematics from Yale University and his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Research Projects for the Center for Retirement Research
Completed
"Annuities and Individual Welfare" (with Thomas Davidoff and Jeffrey Brown), Working Paper, #2003-12, May 2003.
"What Stock Market Returns to Expect for the Future?" Issue in Brief, #2, September 1999.
"Social Security Investment in Equities I: Linear Case" Working Paper, #1999-02, April 1999.
Selected Publications
- Diamond, Peter A. and Peter R. Orszag. 2004, revised edition 2005. Saving Social Security: A Balanced Approach. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
- Diamond, Peter A. 2002. Social Security Reform, The 1999 Lindahl Lectures. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Diamond, Peter A. 2002. Taxation, Incomplete Markets and Social Security, The 2000 Munich Lectures. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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