Browsing Programs, Centers, and Institutes by Author "Jansen, Dennis W."

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    • Market Risk and Retirement Plans 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Rettenmaier, Andrew J. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2022-01-13)
      At retirement, the goal of most workers is to be able to pay their anticipated living expenses using their employer-sponsored retirement plan, savings, and Social Security. Today, most workers’ employer-sponsored retirement ...
    • Methodology for Constructing an Economic Index for the College Station-Bryan Metropolitan Statistical Area 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Navarro, Carlos I.; Rettenmaier, Andrew J.; Sekhposyan, Tatevik (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2018-10-21)
      This paper describes the need for timely GDP information, methodology, and data sources used to create the monthly publication, Economic Indicators.
    • Nonlinear Evidence on the Existence of Jobless Recoveries 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Bradley, Michael D. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2015-07-01)
      The sluggish growth in employment following the Great Recession has spurred research into investigating its cause. Economists are split as to whether it reflects the advent of “jobless recoveries� or just reflects ...
    • An Overview of the Economic Performance of States in the U.S. from 2010-2022 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Kim, Joon Hwa (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2023-07-18)
      Questions about economic performance are some of the most frequently asked questions posed to economists. This paper illustrates the relative performance of states over 2010-2022 in terms of RGDP growth, population growth, ...
    • An Overview of the Economic Performance of Texas MSAs from 2010-2021 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Kim, Joon Hwa (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2023-07-18)
      Questions about economic performance are some of the most frequently asked questions posed to economists. This paper illustrates the relative performance of states over 2010-2022 in terms of RGDP growth, population growth, ...
    • The Pandemic and Texas State Tax Revenue 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Rettenmaier, Andrew J. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2021-01-22)
      Government budgets have undergone drastic changes due to the coronavirus pandemic. In this issue, authors Dennis W. Jansen and Andrew J. Rettenmaier share the state of Texas’ tax collections compared to previous years. ...
    • The Pandemic Misery Index 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Navarro, Carlos I.; Rettenmaier, Andrew J. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2021-03-18)
      The Covid-19 pandemic has brought with it both human and economic loss. The Pandemic Misery Index, or PMI, is a simple metric that measures the effectiveness of pandemic-related public policies by combining the unemployment ...
    • Pandemic Misery Index: States and Texas MSAs 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Navarro, Carlos I.; Rettenmaier, Andrew J. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2020-09-25)
      How does Texas’ response to the coronavirus pandemic compare to that of other states? In this issue of PERCspectives on Policy, Dennis W. Jansen, Carlos I. Navarro, and Andrew J. Rettenmaier discuss which states, and ...
    • Portfolio Choice in the Model of Expected Utility with a Safety-First Component 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Liu, Liqun (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2020-10-14)
      Whereas the majority of economists interpret risk as dispersion or variation in an outcome variable, many everyday decision makers tend to associate risk with the outcome failing to meet a certain “safety� level. In ...
    • Portfolio Choice in the Model of Expected Utility With a Safety-First Component 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Liu, Liqun (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2022-05-10)
      Whereas the majority of economists interpret risk as dispersion or variation in an outcome variable, many everyday decision makers tend to associate risk with the outcome failing to meet a certain “safety� level. Here, ...
    • Poverty in the U.S. 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Rettenmaier, Andrew J. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2023-05-02)
      In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a ‘war on poverty.’ Since then, the U.S. poverty rate declined from 19% to 11.6% in 2021, but one may wonder why it has not dropped further. In this issue of PERCspectives ...
    • A Presentation on the Coronavirus and the Economy 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Rettenmaier, Andrew J. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2020-04-03)
      This presentation discusses the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on College Station-Bryan. The attached presentation includes information on: - The staggering number of initial unemployment claims nationally and in Texas ...
    • A Presentation on the Coronavirus and The Economy, Updated 6/25 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Rettenmaier, Andrew J. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2020-06-25)
      This presentation focuses on the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on College Station-Bryan and the state of Texas. The attached presentation includes information on: Updated national unemployment insurance claims for ...
    • Remittances, Output, and Exchange Rate Regimes: Theory with an Application to Latin America 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Vacaflores, Diego E. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2019-08-20)
      Remittances from immigrants back to relatives and friends in their home country represent a large and important flow of funds both absolutely and relative to measures of national income. Macroeconomic aggregates are impacted ...
    • Retirement Plan Choice and Public Pension Reform 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Liu, Liqun; Rettenmaier, Andrew J. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2021-09-08)
      Despite the private sector’s switch to defined contribution retirement plans, traditional defined benefit pension plans remain dominant in the public sector. In this issue of PERCspectives on Policy, authors Dennis Jansen, ...
    • Revisionist Economic History? Potential GDP in the United States 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Ross, Aaron (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2018-03-01)
      U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has finally caught up with the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates of potential GDP as of late 2017, even though the National Bureau of Economic Research dates the end of the Great ...
    • The Signs of the Times 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Rettenmaier, Andrew J. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2023-01-31)
      The past year, we experienced the highest inflation rates in forty years. Recession fears have been on the rise in recent months even as inflation rates have started to turn a corner. In this issue of PERCspectives on ...
    • Tax Reform... 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Liu, Liqun; Rettenmaier, Andrew J. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2018-01-18)
      The passage of the biggest tax reform bill in decades, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, comes with a substantial cut in the corporate tax rate and vast changes to the individual income tax code. In the PERCspectives on Policy ...
    • Taxation in the Fifty States, With Special Attention on the Lone Star State 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Neumann, Corbin J. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2018-03-30)
      State taxes have been in the news nationally due to changes in the deductibility of state income taxes on federal income tax returns, as well as locally, as citizens in Texas and other states protest rising property taxes. ...
    • Taxing Wealth 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Liu, Liqun; Rettenmaier, Andrew J. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2020-01-29)
      During this presidential primary season, several candidates have proposed a tax on the wealthy to fund platform promises. There is certainly appeal for a wealth tax, as these proposed taxes are seen as a tax on someone ...