The annual five per cent in real terms increase in tobacco taxes proposed in the recent White Paper on smoking has reaffirmed the commitment of successive United Kingdom governments to above inflation increases in tobacco taxation to encourage people to stop smoking. This paper presents evidence...

This paper proposes a scheme that speeds up the convergence of Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms in the context of limited-dependent variable models. The algorithm reduces autocorrelations more than the recently proposed Parameter Expansion Data Augumentation (PX-DA) algorithm. In...

Central to many theoretical accounts of the process by which (rational) people tackle dynamic decision problems is the concept of a plan: a set of conditional decisions as to what would be decided under certain conditions (imposed by Nature). The notion of a plan is clearly central to theories...

Learning with bounded memory in stochastic frameworks is incomplete in the sense that the learning dynamics cannot converge to an rational expectations equilibrium (REE). The properties of the dynamics arising from such rules are studied for models with steady states. If in standard linear...