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Kent Smetters
Boettner Professor; Professor of Business and Public Policy


Education

1995 Ph.D. Economics, Harvard University

1992 M.A. Economics, Harvard University

1990 B.S. Computer Science, Ohio State University

1990 B.S. Economics, Ohio State University

Publications
Kent Smetters, S. Nishiyama (2007), “Does Privatizing Social Security Increase Efficiency?”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, (4): 1677 - 1720
Kent Smetters, Jagadeesh Gokhale (2007), Do the Markets Care about the $2.4 Trillion U.S. Deficit?, Financial Analysts Journal, Volume 63, Number 2: 37 - 47

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Current Research
Kent Smetters, Julia Li 2011, Optimal Portfolio Choice with Wage-Indexed Social Security
Kent Smetters, Walter Theseira 2011, A Matter of Trust: Understanding Worldwide Public Pension Conversions
Kent Smetters, Ying Chen 2009, Optimal Portfolio Choice over the Life Cycle with Social Security
Kent Smetters, Shinichi Nishiyama 2009, Richardian Equivalence Under Asymmetric Information
Kent Smetters, Walter Theseira 2009, A Matter of Trust: Understanding Worldwide Public Pension Conversions

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In The News
Is student loan, education bubble next?, WJLA.com, 11/06/2011, Kent Smetters
Should Top B-Schools Disclose Grades?, Businessweek, 10/04/2011, Kent Smetters
Treasury Yield Is 7 Basis Points From Record Low on Fed Outlook, Businessweek, 09/21/2011, Kent Smetters
Smetters Sees Risk of U.S. Double-Dip Economic Recession: Video, Bloomberg, 09/20/2011, Kent Smetters
GOP candidates revive private Social Security idea, Daily Journal, 09/17/2011, Kent Smetters

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Knowledge@Wharton
Will the U.S. and Europe Rise Again -- or Sink Together?, 10/31/2011, Kent Smetters
Revitalizing the Private Mortgage Market: 'Skin in the Game' and the Consequences for Future Homebuyers, 05/11/2011, Kent Smetters
Under the Microscope: AIG's Second Chance, 03/02/2011, Kent Smetters
Fighting for Common Ground: Will Business and the New Congress Get Along?, 02/02/2011, Kent Smetters
An End to the 'Golden Years': Increasing Longevity Changes the Work-leisure Equation, 12/06/2010, Kent Smetters

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Honors And Awards
Undergraduate Teaching Award, The Wharton School, 2008
Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance (“The Q-Group”) Award, 2005
Smith-Richardson Foundation Research Grant, 2005
Smith-Richardson Foundation Research Grant, 2004
Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research Grant, 2004

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Smetters Kent
Kent Smetters
 3303 Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall
3620 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: 215-898-9811
smetters@wharton.upenn.edu

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Research Interests:
Social insurance programs; incomplete markets; annuity markets; tax reform; pricing government guarantees