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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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Trade Misinvoicing and Macroeconomic Outcomes in India

Jha, Raghbendra; Nguyen, Truong Duc - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014

This paper has two main objectives. First, it computes capital flight (CF) through trade misinvoicing from India using … data from UNCOMTRADE, MIT Observatory of Economic Complexity and IMF E-library. India’s trade with 17 countries over the … least some of the failures of current macroeconomic policy in India could be attributed to CF. …

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Reflections on Energy Security in the Asia Pacific

Cronshaw, Ian; Grafton, Quentin - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National …

This article reviews key past trends in energy security from the perspective of both International Energy Agency members and the Asia Pacific over the past 30 years, and assesses future energy risks. Developments in energy efficiency, unconventional oil and gas, and stationary renewable energy...

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India's Gender Bias in Child Population, Female Education and Growing Prosperity: 1951–2011 with Projections to 2026

Chaudhri, D.P.; Jha, Raghbendra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011

Using Census and NSS data this paper studies the evolution of Gender Bias (GB) in the age group 0–6 in India and its … until 2026. The paper also demonstrates that there are wide variations in GB across various states, even districts, of India …

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Child Poverty, Demographic Transition and Gender Bias in Education in India: Household Data Analysis (1993–94 and 2004–05)

Chaudhri, D.P.; Jha, Raghbendra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011

relation to household poverty status in India as evidenced by our analysis of Census data (1951–2001) and those from NSS … over the last three censuses of India there is considerable variation by space, by poverty status and by education of women … bias in education and argue that for approximately half of India's children the Right to Education Act must involve …

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Calorie Thresholds and Undernutrition in India, 1993–2004

Kaicker, Nidhi; Gaiha, Raghav - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011

In a recent study, Jensen and Miller (2011) propose a new measure of undernutrition, based on a calorie share of staples threshold. Among the merits of this measure are that (i) it dispenses with calorie norms, and (ii) relies on a behavioural approach to estimate this threshold. What our...

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Dietary Transition in India: An Analysis Based on NSS Data for 1993 and 2004

Kaicker, Nidhi; Kulkarni, Vani S.; Gaiha, Raghav - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011

Our study examines changes in diets over the period 1993-2004. Diets have shifted away from cereals towards higher consumption of fruits, vegetables, oils and livestock products. Using household data, reduced form demand relations are estimated for nine food commodities. Significant own and...

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