model which features compulsory savings accounts and transparent pricing of health services. It has achieved some of the … how tax cuts can be designed to help establish compulsory savings accounts so that a publicly funded welfare system can be … also key differences. We present a new unified approach to the funding of health, retirement and risk-cover (for events …

countries with insufficiently developed capital markets. This paper analyzes the problem of channeling domestic savings into …

We examine six alternative plans which might be discussed in an effort to increase consumer savings through the … personal income tax system in the United States. These plans attempt to affect savings through an increase in the real rate of … return either by direct tax cuts on savings or by indexing tax rates against inflation. The paper presents estimates of …

response to earnings risk based on Euler equation estimates. To address endogeneity problems, we use Norwegian administrative …

(and the coefficient of relative risk aversion) from regressions of consumption growth on uncertainty in consumption growth … imply estimates of prudence and risk aversion that are unrealistically low. Using numerical solutions to a fairly standard …