Cagri Kumru and Athanasios C. Thanopoulos
This paper examines the impact of various fiscal policies, namely, taxes on consumption, labor and capital when agents have self-control preferences.
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2011Jul
2011Jun
Michael Keane
This paper examines the effect of labor income taxation in life-cycle models where work experience builds human capital.
2011May
Hazel Bateman, Christine Ebling, John Geweke, Jordan Louviere, Stephen Satchell, Susan Thorp
This research studies the propensity of individuals to violate implications of expected utility maximization in allocating retirement savings within a compulsory defined contribution retirement plan.
2011May
Craig Blackburn, Michael Sherris
This paper proposes and assesses consistent multi-factor dynamic affine mortality models for longevity risk applications.
2011Mar
Carolyn Njenga and Michael Sherris
Mortality risk models have been developed to capture trends and common factors driving mortality improvement.
2011Mar
Chao Qiao and Michael Sherris
Group Self-annuitisation Schemes (GSAs), or Pooled Annuity Schemes, are designed to share uncertain future mortality experience including systematic improvements.
2011Mar
Shu Su and Michael Sherris
Heterogeneity in mortality rates is known to exist in populations, undermining the use of age and sex as the only rating factors for life insurance and annuity products
2011Mar
Erik Hernaes, John Piggott, Ola Lotherington Vestad and Tao Zhang
This paper revisits the question of whether defined benefit pension plans inhibit labour mobility.
2011Feb
Juergen Jung and Chung Tran
In this paper we develop a stochastic dynamic general equilibrium overlapping gener ations (OLG) model with endogenous health capital to study the macroeconomic effects of the Affordable Care Act of March 2010 also known as the Obama health care reform.