Professional Experience

• • Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

  • 2011 - present

Publications

• Peterman, William B. (Forthcoming). "Determining the Motives for a Positive Optimal Tax on Capital," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.
• Peterman, William B. (2012). "Reconciling Micro and Macro Estimates of the Frisch Labor Supply Elasticity," Finance and economics discussion series 2012-75. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Peterman, William B. (2012). "An Extensive Look at Taxes: How does Endogenous Retirement Affect Optimal Taxation?" Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2012-28. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Peterman, William B. (2012). "The Effect of Endogenous Human Capital Accumulation on Optimal Taxation," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2012-03. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Peterman, William B. (2011). "Determining the Motives for a Positive Optimal Tax on Capital," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2011-55. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
• Bauer, Andrew, Nicholas Haltom, and William Peterman (2004). "Decomposing Inflation," Economic Review, vol. 89, no. 1, pp. 39-51.
• Bauer, Andrew, Nicholas Haltom, and William Peterman (2004). "Examining Contributions to Core Consumer Inflation Measures," Working Paper 2004-7. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
• Peterman, William (2011). "Optimal Taxation in Life Cycle Models," Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, San Diego.

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