About

Neil Bruce is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1975 and specializes in public finance. His research includes topics such as social security, growth, and welfare in overlapping generations economies, with a focus on issues related to annuities. Throughout his career, he has contributed to the field through scholarly articles, including a notable publication co-authored with Stephen J. Turnovsky in the Journal of Public Economics in 2013. Professor Bruce has been a part of the university for over 25 years and has made significant contributions to the academic community in economics.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Economics
• Macroeconomics
• Environmental engineering
• Engineering
• Epistemology
• Finance
• Law
• Neoclassical economics
• Public economics
• Natural resource economics
• Mathematical economics
• Philosophy
• Business

Selected publications

• Green Taxes and Policies for Environmental Protection

  Springer eBooks · 2023 · 6 citations

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  • Political Science
  • Business
  • Public economics
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• Trade and Trade Taxes in an Inter-Temporally Optimizing Economy

  2022-02-02

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• Some Extensions of the Two Sector General Equilibrium Model of Tax Incidence

  2022-02-02

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• On Measuring Welfare Costs in a General Equilibrium Model

  2022-02-02

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• Three Essays on Taxation in Simple General Equilibrium Models

  2022 · 1 citations

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  • Mathematical economics
  • Economics
  • Neoclassical economics

  This book, first published in 1984, examines the use of simple general equilibrium models in analysing the effects of taxes. The replacement of the earlier partial equilibrium approach has yielded numerous insights and conclusions, and these are examined here alongside the simple general equilibrium reasoning.

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• Social security, growth, and welfare in overlapping generations economies with or without annuities

  Journal of Public Economics · 2013-02-27 · 33 citations

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• Social Security, Growth and Welfare in OLG Economies

  RePEc: Research Papers in Economics · 2012-06-01

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  We examine the impact of a stylized pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) Social Security program in an economy of overlapping generations with equilibrium growth. We adopt realistic mortality and other demographic assumptions and allow for the presence or absence of full life annuities. In all cases we find that steady state economies with PAYGO Social Security programs grow more slowly than those without. Also, we find that, for steady state economies having the same wage rate at the current time, initial all-inclusive wealth and lifetime expected utility are lower for households newly entering the economy with Social Security, and for all households subsequent. Growth and welfare are lower in economies without annuities, but the quantitative impact depends on how the financial wealth of decedents is distributed across the surviving population. With or without annuities, the presence of a PAYGO Social Security program reduces growth and welfare.

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• Social Security, Growth, and Welfare in Overlapping Generations Economies With or Without Annuities

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2012-01-01 · 26 citations

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• DEMOGRAPHY AND GROWTH: A UNIFIED TREATMENT OF OVERLAPPING GENERATIONS

  Macroeconomic Dynamics · 2012-09-28 · 15 citations

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  We construct a unified overlapping-generations framework of equilibrium growth that includes the Blanchard “perpetual youth” model, the Samuelson model, and the infinitely lived–agent model as limit specifications for a “realistic” two-parameter survivorship function. We assess how the limit specifications compare with the general survival function, and analyze how exogenous changes in demographic conditions affect equilibrium growth and savings rates. Predicted effects are consistent with some cross-country correlations between demographic conditions and growth rates.

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• The Generalized Excess Burden of Taxation

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2011-01-01

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Frequent coauthors

• Robin Boadway

  Queen's University

  15 shared

• Jack Mintz

  10 shared

• Stephen J. Turnovsky

  University of Washington

  7 shared

• Douglas D. Purvis

  5 shared

• Robin W. Boadway

  4 shared

• Michael Waldman

  4 shared

• Richard Harris

  3 shared

• Kar‐yiu Wong

  3 shared

Education

• Ph.D.

  University of Chicago

  1975