Henning Bohn at UCSB

Department of Economics 

University of California at Santa Barbara 

Santa Barbara, CA 93106

 Phone: 805 - 893 - 4532 

Dep.Fax: 805 - 893 - 8830 

E-mail: bohn@econ.ucsb.edu

Research: 

See the Research Page for links to my current working papers.

See Data Sets, Items "available from the author" and other research material for proofs, data, appendices, and other items promised to be available from the author.

Direct links to selected recent work:
• Calculation of a Population Externality with Charles Stuart (Feb. 2012).
• Let’s Pay Lower Taxes: Revenue Extraction by Median Voters (Revised, May 2012, previously titled: Voting over Non-Linear Taxes in a Stylized Representative Democracy.)
• The Economic Consequences of Rising U.S. Government Debt (Revised, July 2011)
• Private versus Public Risk Sharing: Should Government Provide Reinsurance? (Dec. 2010)
• Should Public Retirement Plans be Fully Funded? Journal of Pension Economics and Finance 10 (2), April 2011, 195-219.

Teaching:

Students: Here are links to specific class pages and course outlines:

  Econ 135         Econ 204A         Econ 229         Econ 280B

  AEA Summer Program (Econ 594SA)

See my teaching page for course descriptions and other general information.
If you send me e-mail about classes, please use the course number in the subject line.

University and public policy issues:

• Presentation on U.S. Government Debt to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (April 2010), with supplement.
• Notes on the UC Post-Employment Benefits Options: NotesPEB. (Oct.11, 2010).*
• Note on the UC Academic Senate's Futures Report: Updated Charts. (Nov. 2009).*
• Comment on UC furloughs: The Furlough Tax: A Defective Plan (July 2009).*
• Analysis of UCSB campus funding and expenditures (Sept. 2007).*
• Presentation on Monetary Policy for the UCSB Economic Forecast Project (2007).
    * Disclaimer: Papers about UC posted here express my own views and do no represent positions of the UCSB Academic Senate.

Links:

• UCSB Academic Senate

• Home page of the Department of Economics 

• Faculty listing for Henning Bohn

• Personal: My wife is teaching piano, flute, and recorder. Her website is OdaBohnMusicStudio.com.

Please send comments to bohn@econ.ucsb.edu