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DISCOUNTING AND CONSUMPTION OVER AN UNCERTAIN HORIZON: DRAW-DOWN PLANS FOR FAMILY TRUSTS

Satchell, Stephen; Thorp, Susan - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2008

Individuals, endowments and trusts face uncertain lifetimes. When the planning horizon of an entity is stochastic and Pareto distributed, hyperbolic discounting and time-varying consumption rates are optimal. We derive expressions for the optimal rate of consumption (draw-down) from wealth for...

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Bank Window Dressing: A Re-Assessment and a Puzzle

Yang, Shanshan; Shaffer, Sherrill - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010

Expanded public availability of U.S. banking data has prompted a need to reexamine end-of-quarter window dressing. We find substantial heterogeneity in the pattern of window dressing across banks and products, not all of which can be explained as customerinitiated, and some of which is...

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Bringing Financial Stability into Monetary Policy

Leeper, Eric M.; Nason, James M. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014

This paper arms central bank policy makers with ways to think about interactions between financial stability and monetary policy. We frame the issue of whether to integrate financial stability into monetary policy operating rules by appealing to the observation that in actual economies financial...

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Private Sector Lessons for Public Sector Reform in Indonesia

McLeod, Ross H. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2005

, large business enterprises: namely, creating an environment of open and fair competition for all positions within the …

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Development Performance Across Indian States and The Role of the Governments

Kalirajan, Kaliappa; Bhide, Shashanka; Singh, Kanhaiya - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2009

India has a federal system of governance with both the state or provincial and the Central governments responsible for … variations in economic conditions in turn. It is in this context, this paper examines whether governments in India within a … indicate that Government in India within a federal framework has mechanisms that foster development equitably across its states …

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How do the poor handle money? What do the financial diaries of char dwellers tell us about financial inclusion?

Kuntala Lahiri–Dutt - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012

Derived from livelihoods surveys and ethnographic material about people living on the chars, or river islands, in deltaic lower Bengal, this paper illustrates the complex, diverse and ingenious ways that the poor manage money. These islands constitute some of the most vulnerable locations...

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Inflation Volatility and the Inflation-Growth Tradeoff in India

Jha, Raghbendra; Kulkarni, Varsha S. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012

such volatility for India. It provides results on the determinants of inflation volatility and expected inflation …

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The Determinants of Household Level Fertility in India

Jha, Raghbendra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013

decisions of households, and regional and ethnic factors on patterns of household level fertility in India. These have helped … determine the composition of India's young (aged 9 to 34) today. Demographic transition is well underway in India with rising … across various groups in India. …

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Budget Deficit and National Debt: Sharing India Experience

Singh, Kanhaiya - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013

India suffered humiliations in terms of balance of payments crises in 1991 but since then it has weathered all crises … deficits. It is in this context that an analysis of fiscal and debt problems of India is timely and assumes importance. The … paper delves upon fiscal exuberance and debt management practices in India, the budgetary allocations, changing structure of …

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Indirect Tax Reform and Fiscal Federalism in India

Jha, Raghbendra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013

This paper underscores the substantial spatial disparities across India and evaluates the case for putting together … predictability needed to ensure that India's state driven growth blossoms and attains full fruition. …

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