Population ageing, pensions and growth

intertemporal trade-offs and consumption planning

Many areas of economics require the evaluation of time streams of costs and benefits. Societies face long-term phenomena affecting costs and benefits far into the future, such as demographic change and climate change. These present challenges for policy makers in planning inter- temporal consumption paths ...

Tax policy design and behavioural microsimulation modeling

Tax policy questions may relate to specific problems, concerning perhaps the revenue implications of a particular tax or they may involve an extensive analysis of the cost and redistributive effects of many taxes and transfer payments. This book is concerned with the ways in which ...

Modelling tax revenue growth

This book demonstrates how the reliable measurement of growth in tax revenues, both for a tax system and for its component taxes, is important for the design of tax policy. The need for discretionary changes in tax parameters (such as tax rates, income thresholds and ...

Modelling income distribution