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

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    • Elderly Entitlements and Wealth Inequality 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Rettenmaier, Andrew J. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2022-12-21)
      By most measures, wealth inequality has risen significantly over the last three decades and is a growing concern. However, standard wealth definitions require that individuals possess a legal claim to assets included as ...
    • Energy and the Economy 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Rettenmaier, Andrew J. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2020-05-06)
      With many of the most timely measures of economic activity lagging behind the fast moving changes in the U.S. economy, one source of extremely timely data is energy use. Energy use is not only tied to the weather as we ...
    • Fear the Machine? 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Bradley, Michael D. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2018-03-30)
      Advanced automation and artificial intelligence, or ‘robot’ technology use, continues to expand across many industries. Recent decreasing labor market movements fuels the question: How do these technologies affect ...
    • Fear the Machine? 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Bradley, Michael D. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2018-07-11)
      How do the technological changes caused by increased automation and A.I. affect workers’ wages and jobs? This article summarizes PERC working paper 1801, PERC’s Director Dennis W. Jansen and co-author Michael D. Bradley ...
    • The Fed’s Slow Realization of the Inflation Problem 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Rettenmaier, Andrew J. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2022-04-12)
      For the 30 years prior to the peak of the previous business cycle in February 2020, monthly inflation rates based on the consumer price index averaged 2.4% while the personal consumption expenditures price index averaged ...
    • Federal Liabilities: 2019 Update 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Liu, Liqun; Rettenmaier, Andrew J. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2019-05-17)
      The Financial Report of the United States Government (FRUSG), released at the end of March, identifies total federal liabilities of $25.4 trillion as of September 30, 2018. The debt held by the public, $15.8 trillion, ...
    • Federal Liabilities: 2021 Update 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Liu, Liqun; Rettenmaier, Andrew J. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2021-06-11)
      The 2020 Financial Report of the United States Government (FRUSG) identifies total federal liabilities of $32.7 trillion as of September 30, 2020. The debt held by the public, $21.1 trillion, comprised 62% of these ...
    • Federal Liabilities: 2023 Update 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Rettenmaier, Andrew J. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2023-03-07)
      The 2022 Financial Report of the United States Government identifies total federal liabilities of $39 trillion as of September 30, 2022. While the federal debt, interest payments and federal employees’ accrued benefits ...
    • "Forecasting" Deficit Spending in the United States: A Look at Projections from the Congressional Budget Office 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Ross, Aaron (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2017-10-01)
      The Congressional Budget Office, or CBO, is the non-partisan government agency that provides projections of costs and revenues to Congress and the public. CBO projections are conditional forecasts of underlying economic ...
    • Getting Out of Our Health Insurance Quagmire 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Liu, Liqun; Rettenmaier, Andrew J. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2019-09-03)
      Per-capita spending on health care in the U.S. is the highest in the world, and it is not clear that this high spending generates additional health benefits. This high spending, coupled with high and rising health insurance ...
    • Goodbye 2018, Hello 2019 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Liu, Liqun; Rettenmaier, Andrew J. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2019-01-22)
      The decline of the stock market and its recent volatility have many wondering about the future prospects of the economy. Other leading economic indicators offer a mixed outlook: hours worked in manufacturing remains high ...
    • Great (Inflation) Expectations 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Rettenmaier, Andrew J. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2021-04-28)
      As states have begun to ease pandemic-related restrictions, we enter a new economic period that has the potential for rapid economic growth, but also a period of rising inflation. In this edition of PERCspectives on Policy, ...
    • Hydraulic Fracking: A Story of American Innovation 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Sasso, John (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2018-04-01)
      A regular misconception is that Saudi Arabia is the largest producer of energy from oil and natural gas. Despite massive oil production, Saudi Arabia produces less than 1% of total energy from oil and gas. The U.S. currently ...
    • The Identification of Response of Stock Returns to Monetary Policy Actions Using Market-Based Measures of Monetary Policy Shocks 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Tsai, Chun-Li (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2014-08-11)
      The authors investigate two related approaches to dealing with the possible joint repsonse bias in using Kuttner's approach to identifying monetary policy's impact on stock returns - the methodology recently suggested by ...
    • Inflation and Real GDP Growth in the U.S. 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Chang, Jui-Chuan Della; Pagliacci, Carolina (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2023-07-18)
      Here, authors Dennis Jansen, Jui-Chuan Della Chang, and Carolina Pagliacci look at the recent experience of the United States via the lens of sign restrictions to identify shocks to aggregate demand and aggregate supply. ...
    • Inflation Dynamics and the Cost Channel: The Small Open Economy Case 
      Chang, Jui-Chuan Della; Jansen, Dennis W. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2014-05-19)
      This paper investigates the cost channel of monetary policy, transmitting its effect on economic activities other than conventional demand side, in a small open economy. The innovations lie in examination of the cost ...
    • Inter-Jurisdiction Migration and the Fiscal Policies of Local Governments 
      Dai, Darong; Jansen, Dennis W.; Liu, Liqun (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2019-02-04)
      In this paper, authors Darong Dai, Dennis W. Jansen and Liqun Liu analyze the effects of migration on the fiscal policies of local governments. Because of the possibility of migrating to another jurisdiction later in life, ...
    • Inter-Jurisdiction Migration and the Fiscal Policies of Local Governments 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Liu, Liqun; Dai, Darong (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2019-06-28)
      The relationship between migration and the economy is of great interest to researchers, especially where migration and local government fiscal policy intersect. In order to attract immigrants or retain current residents, ...
    • It is Time to Fix Social Security 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Rettenmaier, Andrew J. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2022-09-12)
      This year, the Social Security program is projected to run a cash flow deficit of $121 billion, one-fifth of the U.S. annual federal deficit, and is expected to be insolvent in 12 years. In this issue of PERCspectives on ...
    • Japanese Government Debt: It's Not As Bad As You Might Think 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Ye, Tong (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2019-12-02)
      Japan, the third-largest economy in the world by GDP, is also the most heavily indebted of the highly developed countries. Its gross debt of 1,175.84 trillion yen is an eye-popping 213.7% of GDP. In this issue of Data ...