Cagri S. Kumru and Saran Sarntisart
The purpose of this paper is to examine the question of optimal taxation when individuals have self-control problems.
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2013Apr
2013Mar
Adam Wenqiang Shao, Michael Sherris and Katja Hanewald
This paper estimates and compares methods of constructing disaggregated house price indices from existing house price models using individual sales data for Sydney.
2013Mar
Hazel Bateman, Isabella Dobrescu, Ben R. Newell, Andreas Ortmann and Susan Thorp
We report the results of two laboratory experiments that study how university student and staff participants chose retirement savings investment options using 'user‐friendly' information prescribed by regulators.
2013Mar
Vanessa Loh and Hal Kendig
This paper provides national findings on both paid, tax-generating and unpaid, voluntary productivity across the life course, focusing primarily on the baby boomer cohort now in late middle age.
2013Mar
Shiko Maruyamaya and Meliyanni Johar
When siblings are concerned for the well-being of their elderly parents, the costs of care giving and long-term commitment create a free-rider problem.
2013Mar
Daniel Cho, Katja Hanewald and Michael Sherris
We analyse the risk and profitability of reverse mortgages with lump-sum or income stream payments from the lender's perspective
2013Feb
Ramona Meyricke and Michael Sherris
This paper quantities the financial impact of frailty on underwritten annuities.
2013Jan
Daniel H. Alai, Severine Gaille and Michael Sherris
Changes in underlying mortality rates significantly impact insurance business as well as private and public pension systems.
2013Jan
Andy Wong, Michael Sherris, and Ralph Stevens
This paper uses stochastic mortality and interest rate models to assess life and annuity capital requirements and quantify the benefits of natural hedging taking into account relative profit loadings on products.