The distributional impact of reforms in the housing and communal sector in Russia
This paper originally appeared as a Master Thesis at NES in 2001 as a part of the project "Evaluation of Tax Benefit Reforms", which was carried out within the program "Russian Economic and Political Institutions in Transitions" generously sponsored by Ford Foundation, National Training Foundation, World Bank, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. I am deeply indebted to the project Anthony Shorrocks (NES, UNU/WIDER) and Evsey Gurvich (Ministry of Finance of the RF, Economic Expert Group) for their great contribution to this research.
Microsimulation modelling of personal taxation and social security benefits in the Czech Republic
Microsimulation modelling is now established in many countries as a valuable tool for the evaluation of taxation and social policy. In the United Kingdom both government departments and independent research organisations—such as the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London, and the Microsimulation Unit at the Department of Applied Economics at Cambridge University—have developed microsimulation models of the UK tax and benefit system. As a result, these models now have a very wide use in public policy debate.
The Use of Qualitative Information in Macro-Economic Policy Analysis
The majority of macro-economic policy models takes for granted that conflicts among objectives can be assessed by means of a tradeoff analysis. Such tradeoffs imply that sacrifices and benefits of various impacts of decisions can be measured on a cardinal scale, so that a conventional macro-economic utility or welfare analysis can be applied.