Invited presentation at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, Melbourne, Australia.

Conference organised in relation to a new tool for analysing pension incentives in Ireland

Means testing plays an important role in the UK state pension system. We use a dynamic programming model to consider the long-term behavioural effects of a recent policy reform that reduced the marginal tax rates on private income of means tested retirement benefits from 100% to 40%. Our...

Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research

World Economy and Finance Conference, LSE

Department for Work and Pensions modelling seminar

This document provides an overview of programming code that underlies the Simulator of Individual Dynamic Decisions (SIDD). SIDD is designed to implement a structural model of dynamic decisions, focussing predominantly on the consumption/savings and labour/leisure margins. The structural model...