The paper presents a model of income distribution that makes use of Gibrat's law of proportionate effect to explain the way income is distributed and how the distribution changes over time in a population made of families characterized by a specific life cycle and initial endowment. The...

This paper reviews a number of recent contributions that study pension design with myopic individuals. Its objective is to explore how the presence of more or less myopic individuals affects pension design when individuals differ also in productivity. This double heterogeneity gives rise to an...