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Eric M. Engen

Senior Associate Director Program Direction Section Research and Statistics
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Education

  • Ph.D., Economics, University of Virginia, 1991
  • B.S., Economics, University of Maryland, 1982
  • Economist

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

    1993 - present
  • Assistant professor

    UCLA, Department of Economics

    1990 - 1993
  • The Macroeconomic Effects of the Federal Reserve’s Unconventional Monetary Policies
    Eric M. Engen, Thomas Laubach, and David Reifschneider
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series (2015)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2015.005
  • Effects of Stock Market Fluctuations on the Adequacy of Retirement Wealth Accumulation
    Eric M. Engen, William G. Gale, and Cori E. Uccello
    Review of Income and Wealth (2005)
    https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4991.2005.00160.x
  • Lifetime Earnings, Social Security Benefits, and the Adequacy of Retirement Wealth Accumulation
    Eric M. Engen, William G. Gale, and Cori E. Uccello
    Social Security Bulletin (2005)
  • Federal Government Debt and Interest Rates
    Eric M. Engen and R. Glenn Hubbard
    NBER Macroeconomics Annual Book Series (2005)
    https://doi.org/10.1086/ma.19.3585331
  • Lifetime Earnings, Social Security Benefits, and the Adequacy of Retirement Wealth Accumulation
    Eric M. Engen, William G. Gale, and Cori Uccello
    CRR Working Papers (2004)
    https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.546243
  • Effects of Stock Market Fluctuations on the Adequacy of Retirement Wealth Accumulation
    Eric M. Engen, William G. Gale, and Cori E. Uccello
    CRR Working Papers (2004)
    https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4991.2005.00160.x
  • Federal Government Debt and Interest Rates
    Eric M. Engen and R. Glenn Hubbard
    NBER Working Paper Series (2004)
    https://doi.org/10.3386/w10681
  • Budget Deficits, National Saving, and Interest Rates: Comments
    Eric M. Engen
    Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (2004)
  • Public Funds and Private Capital Markets: The Investment Practices and Performance of State and Local Pension Funds
    Julia L. Coronado, Eric M. Engen, and Brian Knight
    National Tax Journal (2003)
    https://doi.org/10.17310/ntj.2003.3.09
  • The Adequacy of Household Saving
    Eric M. Engen, William G. Gale, and Cori E. Uccello
    CRR Working Papers (2002)
  • Unemployment Insurance and Precautionary Saving
    Eric M. Engen and Jonathan Gruber
    Journal of Monetary Economics (2001)
    https://doi.org/10.1016/S0304-3932(01)00051-4
  • Effects of Social Security Reform on Private and National Saving
    Eric M. Engen and William G. Gale
    Foundations of pension finance (2000)
  • The Effects of 401(k) Plans on Household Wealth: Differences Across Earnings Groups
    Eric M. Engen and William G. Gale
    NBER Working Paper Series (2000)
    https://doi.org/10.3386/w8032
  • Mutual Funds and the U.S. Equity Market
    Eric M. Engen and Andreas Lehnert
    Federal Reserve Bulletin (2000)
    https://doi.org/10.17016/bulletin.2000.86-12
  • Taxation and Economic Growth
    Eric Engen and Jonathan Skinner
    Tax policy in the real world (1999)
  • The Adequacy of Household Saving
    Eric M. Engen, William G. Gale, and Cori E. Uccello
    Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (1999)
  • Effects of Social Security Reform on Private and National Saving
    Eric M. Engen and William G. Gale
    Social security reform: Links to saving, investment, and growth (1997)
    https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2462184
  • Dynamic Tax Models: Why They Do the Things They Do
    Eric Engen, Jane Gravelle, and Kent Smetters
    National Tax Journal (1997)
  • Consumption Taxes and Saving: The Role of Uncertainty in Tax Reform
    Eric M. Engen and William G. Gale
    American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings (1997)
  • The Effects of Fundamental Tax Reform on Saving
    Eric M. Engen and William G. Gale
    Economic effects of fundamental tax reform (1996)
  • The Effects of Tax-Based Saving Incentives On Saving and Wealth
    Eric M. Engen, William G. Gale, and John Karl Scholz
    NBER Working Paper Series (1996)
    https://doi.org/10.3386/w5759
  • The Illusory Effects of Saving Incentives on Saving
    Eric M. Engen, William G. Gale, and John Karl Scholz
    Journal of Economic Perspectives (1996)
    https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.10.4.113
  • Taxation and Economic Growth
    Eric M. Engen and Jonathan Skinner
    NBER Working Paper Series (1996)
    https://doi.org/10.3386/w5826
  • Taxation and Economic Growth
    Eric Engen and Jonathan Skinner
    National Tax Journal (1996)
  • Tax-Preferred Assets and Debt, and the Tax Reform Act of 1986: Some Implications for Fundamental Tax Reform
    Eric M. Engen and William G. Gale
    National Tax Journal (1996)
    https://doi.org/10.1086/ntj41789209
  • Unemployment Insurance and Precautionary Saving
    Eric M. Engen and Jonathan Gruber
    NBER Working Paper Series (1995)
    https://doi.org/10.3386/w5252
  • Do Saving Incentives Work?
    Eric M. Engen, William G. Gale, and John Karl Scholz
    Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (1994)
  • Saving and Taxation in a Stochastic Life-Cycle Model
    Eric M. Engen
    Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Taxation (1992)
  • Precautionary Saving, Consumption, and Taxation in a Life-Cycle Model with Stochastic Earnings and Mortality Risk
    Eric Engen
    University of Virginia (1992)
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
    Eric M. Engen and Jonathan Skinner
    NBER Working Paper Series (1992)
    https://doi.org/10.3386/w4223
  • The Market for Laws: An Economic Analysis of Legislation
    Bruce L. Benson and Eric M. Engen
    Southern Economic Journal (1988)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/1059016
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