Summary of Research Agenda

Work in Progress

• “Evolutionary Dynamics of Consumption in an Overlapping Generations Model”
• “Reforming Estate Taxation by Reversing the Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax” with Scott Findley
• "Thermodynamic Entropy and Growth"
• "Integenerational Bargaining and Inter Vivos Transfers" with Geng Li
• "Optimal Decumulation of Wealth in General Equilibrium"
• "Heterogeneous Borrowing Costs and the Consumption Hump" with Nick L. Guo
• “Give it or Leave it: A Longitudinal Study of Inter Vivos Transfers and Bequests” with Sheng Guo, and Geng Li

Working Papers

• “Precautionary Saving Unfettered”
• "Optimal Income-Tax Progressivity in an Overlapping-Generations Model" with Shantanu Bagchi
• "Can High Discount Rates Increase Capital Accumulation?" with Emin Gahramanov and Xueli Tang
• "Transition Dynamics of a Mass Deportation"
• "Taxes, Imperfect Capital Markets, and Illegal Immigration" (previously titled "Taxes and Remittances")
• "Capital in a Segregated Economy"
• "Taxing Capitalists"
• "How the Future Shapes Consumption with Time-Inconsistent Preferences" with Sepideh Raei (previously titled "Perspectives on Present and Future Bias" and "Explaining the Consumption Hump in Terms of Deviations from Exponential Discounting")

​Refereed Academic Publications

• Feigenbaum, James and Sepideh Raei, (2023), "Lifecycle Consumption and Welfare with Nonexponential Discounting in Continuous Time," Forthcoming in Journal of Mathematical Economics.
• Feigenbaum, James and Tong Jin, (2023), "Precautionary Social Planning" Public Finance Review 51(1): 44-75.
• Dave, Chetan and James Feigenbaum, (2020), "Precautionary Learning and Inflationary Biases," Macroeconomic Dynamics 24: 1124-1150.
• Bagchi, Shantanu and James A. Feigenbaum, (2020), "Annuity Markets and Capital Accumulation," B. E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 20180055.
• Feigenbaum, James A., (2019), "A Nonparametric Formula Relating the Elasticity of a Factor Demand to the
  Elasticity of Substitution," Theoretical Economics Letters 9: 240-246.
• Park, Hyeon and James Feigenbaum, (2018), "Bounded Rationality, Lifecycle Consumption, and Social Security" Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 146: 65-105.
• Feigenbaum, James A., (2016), "Equivalent Representations of Non-Exponential Discounting Models," Journal of Mathematical Economics 66: 58-71.
• Feigenbaum, James A. and T. Scott Findley, (2015), "Quasi-Hyperbolic Discounting and Delayed Retirement," Theoretical Economics Letters 5: 325-331. doi: 10.4236/tel.2015.52038
• Feigenbaum, James A. and Geng Li, (2015), "Household Income Uncertainties over Three Decades: We Do Not See a Great Moderation Here," Oxford Economic Papers doi: 10.1093/oep/gpv007.
• Bagchi, Shantanu and James A. Feigenbaum, (2014), “Is Smoking a Fiscal Good?” Review of Economic Dynamics 17: 170-190.
• Feigenbaum, James A., Emin Gahramanov, and Xueli Tang, (2013), “Is It Really Good to Annuitize?” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 93: 116-140.
• Findley, T. Scott and James A. Feigenbaum, (2013), "Quasi-Hyperbolic Discounting and the Existence of Time-Inconsistent Retirement," Theoretical Economics Letters 3: 119-123. doi: 10.4236/tel.2013.32019.
• Feigenbaum, James A. and Geng Li, (2012), “Lifecycle Dynamics of Income Uncertainty and Consumption” Advances in Macroeconomics 12(1).
• Feigenbaum, James A., (2011), "Precautionary Saving or Denied Dissaving," Economic Modelling 28: 1559-1572.
• Feigenbaum, James A., Frank N. Caliendo, and Emin Gahramanov, (2011), "Optimal Irrational Behavior," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 77: 286-304.
• Feigenbaum, James A. and Frank N. Caliendo, (2010), “Optimal Irrational Behavior in Continuous Time,” Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 34: 1907-1922.
• Feigenbaum, James A., (2008), “Information Shocks and Precautionary Saving,” Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 32: 3917-3938.
  Technical Appendix
• Feigenbaum, James A., (2008), “Can Mortality Risk Explain the Consumption Hump?” Journal of
  Macroeconomics 30: 844-872.
• Bullard, James and James A. Feigenbaum, (2007), “A Leisurely Reading of Lifecycle Consumption Data,” Journal of Monetary Economics 54: 2305-2320.
• Feigenbaum, James A., (2005), “Second, Third, and Higher-Order Consumption Functions: A Precautionary Tale,” Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 29: 1385-1425.

Refereed Policy Papers

• Feigenbaum, James A., Jesse Baker, and Austin Brooksby, (2020), "A Macroeconomic Analysis of Deportation or Legalization of Illegal Immigrants" Center for Growth and Opportunity Policy paper 2020.009.
• Feigenbaum, James A. and Austin Brooksby, (2020), "Is a Wealth Tax the Best Way to Fight Wealth Inequality?" Center for Growth and Opportunity Policy Paper 2020.008.

Finance and Econophysics

• Chang, George and James A. Feigenbaum, (2023), "Smart Money in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament," International Journal of Economics and Finance 15:8.  doi:  10.5539/ijef.v15n8p14.
• Chang, George and Feigenbaum, James, (2008), “Detecting Log-Periodicity in a Regime-Switching Model of Stock Returns,” Quantitative Finance 8: 723-738.
• Chang, George and Feigenbaum, James, (2006), “A Bayesian Analysis of Log-Periodic Precursors to Financial Crashes,” Quantitative Finance 6: 15-36.
• Feigenbaum, James A., (2003), “Financial Physics,” Reports on Progress in Physics 66: 1611-1649. (invited review article)
• Feigenbaum, James A., (2001), “More on A Statistical Analysis of Log-Periodic Precursors to Financial
  Crashes,” Quantitative Finance 1: 527-532.
• Feigenbaum, James A., (2001), “A Statistical Analysis of Log-Periodic Precursors to Financial Crashes,” Quantitative Finance 1: 346-360.
• Feigenbaum, J. and P.G.O. Freund, (1998), “Discrete Scale Invariance and the ‘Second Black Monday’,” Modern Physics Letters B 12: 57.
• Feigenbaum, J. A. and P.G.O. Freund, (1996), “Discrete Scale Invariance in Stock Markets before Crashes,” International Journal of Modern Physics B 10: 3737.

Physics
Papers

• Feigenbaum, J. A., (1998), “Born-Regulated Gravity in Four Dimensions,” Physical Review D 58.
• Feigenbaum, J., P.G.O. Freund, and M. Pigli, (1998), “Gravitational Analogues of Non-Linear Born
  Electrodynamics,” Physical Review D 57: 4738.
• Feigenbaum, J., P.G.O. Freund, and M. Pigli, (1997), “T-Duality Considerations for Hadronic Strings,” Physical Review D 56: 2590.
• Feigenbaum, J., P.G.O. Freund, and M. Pigli, (1997), “High Energy Hadronic Total Cross-Sections,” Physical Review D 56: 2596.
• Feigenbaum, J., and P.G.O. Freund, (1995), “A q-deformation of the Coulomb Problem,” Journal of Mathematical Physics 37: 1602.
• Feigenbaum, J., (1991), “Study of Toponium Production Including the Effects of Higgs Exchange,” Physical Review D 43: 264.

Textbooks

• Chapters in Instructor’s Solutions Manual: A Modern Introduction to Mechanics by Jonathan F. Reichert, (1991), (Prentice-Hall: Englewood Cliffs, NJ)