Jason Seligman
Assistant Professor
Jason Seligman holds a Ph. D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelors Degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research focuses on topics within public finance, social insurance, and risk management. Within social insurance he focuses on programmatic design: optimal size, structure, and associated costs. Seligman includes private pension & insurance offerings, and elements of behavioral finance in his research. Seligman taught Public Economics and Econometrics at the University of Georgia, and performed policy analyses as part of the Research Division of the Carl Vinson Institute of Government. Before moving to Georgia, Seligman worked at the Office of Economic Policy at the United States Treasury, and with the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, under Presidents Clinton and Bush. He has also advised the United States Government Accountability Office on matters of public finance, and the states of California and Georgia, regarding aging, social services, education finance, and the impacts of state poverty alleviation programs. He has also advised the Center for State and Local Government Excellence and been named a Fellow to the TIAA-CREF Institute in recognition of his work pertaining to lifetime savings and public burdens, in developed and developing societies. Seligman’s work has been published in the Journal of Money Credit and Banking, The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, The National Tax Journal, the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, and Pravartak, The Journal of Insurance and Management, published by the National Insurance Academy of India.
Research interest
> Public finance
> Public budgeting
> Gerontology
> Regulation
Selected Research
Jason Seligman with David P. Richardson. 2007. Health Savings Accounts: Will They Impact Markets? National Tax Journal. Vol. LX, no. 3. (September): 455-467.
Jason Seligman with David P. Richardson. 2007. Public Pension in the Context of Rapid Economic Development: Focus on India. Pravartak The Journal of Insurance and Management. Vol. National Insurance Academy, Pune, India. 2, no. 3: 103-121.
Jason Seligman with Jeffrey Wenger. 2006. Asynchronous Risk: Unemployment, Equity Markets, and Retirement Savings. Journal of Pension Economics and Finance. Vol. 5, no. 3. (November): 237-255.
Jason Seligman. 2006. Does Urgency Affect Price at Market? An Analysis of US Treasury Short Term Finance. Journal of Money Credit and Banking. Vol. 38, no. 4: 989-1012.
Jason Seligman with David P. Richardson. 2005. Optimal Retirement Portfolios: Social Security Personal Accounts within the Context of the Four Pillars. The Geneva Papers. Vol. 30, no. 4: 565-580.
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