This paper has examined simple versions of life-cycle. Keynesian, and target wealth models of consumption. It has drawn out their implications for the age profile of wealth inequality. The latter is observed to decline over the working lifetime and to uncrease in retirement in a range of...

Our major claim is that when people behave strategically,it is wrong to interpret the betting rates they announce as their subjective probabilities of the different events. Instead, these rates should be understood as the prices at which subjects are willing to trade certain goods (simple...

With small geographical size, land scarcity poses a potential constraint for economic growth in Singapore. Restraining car ownership and car use through motor vehicle taxes is part of the land-transport policy to ensure smoother traffic flow. The scale and scope of the motor vehicle taxes used...