Peer-Reviewed Publications

Findley, T. Scott, and Frank N. Caliendo (2008). Does It Pay To Be SMarT? Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, forthcoming. Final Working Version

Findley, T. Scott, and Frank N. Caliendo (2008). The Behavioral Justfication for Public Pensions: A Survey. Journal of Economics and Finance 32(4): 409-425 (special issue in honor of Richard Abel Musgrave).

Findley, T. Scott, and Frank Caliendo (2007). OutSMarTing the Social Security Crisis. Public Finance Review 35(6), 647-668. Final Working Version

Research Awards

The 2008 Young Economists Award of the International Institute of Public Finance (with Frank N. Caliendo, Utah State University). Awarded at The 64th Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance in Maastricht, Netherlands. Photo 1  Photo 2

The 2007-2008 Scott M. Elliott Undergraduate Research Advisor Award. Department of Economics, Illinois State University.

The 2006-2007 Outstanding Graduate Research Award. Department of Economics, Colorado State University.

Working Papers

Short Horizons, Time Inconsistency, and Optimal Social Security

T. Scott Findley and Frank N. Caliendo

Impulsive Consumers and Optimal Social Security

T. Scott Findley

A Welfare-Theoretic General-Equilibrium Analysis of a Shortfall in Public Pension Benefits 

Emin Gahramanov and T. Scott Findley

Social Security Solvency under Endogenous Retirement: A General-Equilibrium Analysis

Shantanu Bagchi and T. Scott Findley

Optimal Social Security when People Can't Solve Complex Math Problems

Frank N. Caliendo and T. Scott Findley

Hedonic Valuation of Land Protection Methods in the Rural-Urban Fringe: Implications for Cluster Development

Robert Kling, T. Scott Findley, Emin Gahramanov, and Dave Theobald

Economic Assessment of Canada Goose Management Methods: A Dynamic Damage-Policy-Feedback Model

Robert W. Kling, T. Scott Findley, Harvey Cutler, Ray S. Sterner, and Roger A. Woodruff

Ongoing Research

Unanticipated Social Security Reforms and Transitional Welfare Dynamics (with Emin Gahramanov)

Does Shortsightedness Contribute to a Lower Personal Saving Rate? (with Frank N. Caliendo)

Save More Tomorrow and the Social Security Crisis Revisited: A General-Equilibrium Inquiry (with Frank N. Caliendo)

Does Save More Tomorrow OutSMarT Hyperbolic Consumers? (with Frank N. Caliendo)

Life-Cycle Consumption with Misperceptions about Social Security (with Frank N. Caliendo)