Microsimulation in government policy and forecasting
This volume presents recent development in microsimulation and public policy.
Conference papers and proceedings
xvi, 649 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
9780444501745, 0444501746
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Ch. 1 Introduction and Overview / Anil Gupta / Vishnu Kapur
Ch. 2 The Tax Policy Analyst's Best Friend / John Wilkins
Ch. 3 Microsimulation and Sales Tax Reform in Canada / Tom McGirr / Vishnu Kapur / Anil Gupta
Ch. 4 Distributional Outcome of the Danish Welfare System / Tove Birgitte Pedersen
Ch. 5 The Use of Microsimulation Models for the Danish Tax Reform Act of 1993 / Peter Foxman
Ch. 6 Marginal Effective Tax Rates and Expected Gains from Employment in Denmark / Frederik Hansen
Ch. 7 The Distributional Superiority of Tax Credits / Harry Papapanagos / Sophia Delipalla
Ch. 8 Modelling Corporation Tax in the United Kingdom / Richard J. Eason
Ch. 9 Socio-Economic Microsimulation and Public Policy: Retrospect and Prospect / Michael Wolfson
Ch. 10 Eur3: A Prototype European Tax-Benefit Model / [et al.] / J. Sastre Descals / F. Bourguignon / C. O'Donoghue
Ch. 11 Benefit Systems and Work Incentives: An OECD Database / Marco Doudeijns
Ch. 12 Microsimulation Models
Credibility, Choice and Practical Use / Steve F. Barry / Gordon A. Keenay
Ch. 13 Social Policy Microsimulation
What Makes a Difference? / Gary Bagley / Joseph E. Burpee / Stephane Jette
Ch. 14 Using Dynamic Microsimulation Models for Policy Analysis and Research / Inger Texmon / Leif Andreassen
Ch. 15 Dynamic Microsimulation: Recent Trends and Future Prospects / Ann Harding
Ch. 16 Modelling Immigrants to Australia
to Enter a Dynamic Microsimulation Model / Agnes Walker
Ch. 17 DYNACAN: The Canada Pension Plan Policy Model: Demographic and Earnings Components / Richard J. Morrison
Ch. 18 Alignment and Variance Reduction in DYNACAN / Christopher Neufeld
Ch. 19 LifePaths: A longitudinal microsimulation model using a synthetic approach / Steve Gribble
Ch. 20 Assessing Distributional Impacts of Social Security Using Microsimulation / Melissa M. Favreault / Steven B. Caldwell
Ch. 21 The Distribution of Household Wealth in the U.S., 1962-1992: Estimation Using Dynamic Microsimulation / Lisa Keister / Steven B. Caldwell
Ch. 22 Some Perspectives on Data Issues in Microsimulation Modelling / Daniel Feenberg / Anil Gupta
Ch. 23 Impute or Match? Strategies for Microsimulation Modelling / John F. O'Hare
Ch. 24 Static Database Aging of Income Distributions in Canada / Brian Murphy / Emile Allie
Ch. 25 Statistics of Individual Taxation: The Individual Taxation Statistics Program of Revenue Canada / Ronald K. Naylor
Ch. 26 The Use of Simulation Models in Forecasting Tax Revenues / Emmanuel Kitcher
Ch. 27 Canada's Corporation Tax Model / Chris McCann / Allan McGrath
Ch. 28 Forecasting the Number of Firms Using a Logit Regression Model / Jacob A. Rasmussen
Ch. 29 Practical Aspects of Microsimulation Modelling / John O'Hare / Anil Gupta
Model 1: EUROMOD (EU) / Holly Sutherland
Model 2: TRIM3 (U.S.A.) / John O'Hare
Model 3: SPSD/M (Canada) / Brian Murphy
Model 4: STINMOD (Australia) / Maren Child / Simon Lambert / Ann Harding
Model 5: DYNACAN (Canada) / Richard J. Morrison
Model 6: OECD TAX-BENEFIT MODEL (OECD) / Marco Doudeijns
Model 7: ACITM (Australia) / Michael Zeitlhofer
Model 8: LIFEPATHS (Canada) / Steve Gribble
Model 9: ASTER (Belgium) / Andre Decoster
Model 10: SLOVAK (Slovak) / William B. Trautman
Model 11: MAINE (U.S.A.) / Anil Gupta / Deborah Kroetsch
Model 12: XECON (Canada) / Michael C. Wolfson
Selected and revised papers from the conference on "Microsimulation in government policy and forecasting" held in Portland, Maine in July 1997; the volume also contains invited contributions by experts in the field, and a separate part on practical microsimulation models--Preface