During the last 20 years, microsimulation models have been increasingly applied in
qualitative and quantitative analysis of public policies. This paper discusses microsimulation …

Feminist standpoint theories are deeply indebted to the women's political movements of the
1960s and 1970s and also to the antipositivist histories, sociologies, and philosophies of …

Studying the poverty and income distribution effects of macroeconomic policies or shocks
requires a methodology that accounts on the one hand for the nature of the policy or shock …

We provide an overview of microsimulation approaches for assessing the effects of policy on
income distribution. We focus on the role of tax-benefit policies and review the concept of …

Electric utilities and regulators face difficult challenges evaluating new energy efficiency and
smart grid programs prompted, in large part, by recent state and federal mandates and …

This article presents an agent-based microsimulation capable of forecasting the effects of
policy levers that influence individual choices of new passenger cars. The fundamental …

The aim of the project was to build EUROMOD, a tax-benefit microsimulation model covering
all 15 Member States of the European Union. This has been achieved, and baseline results …

Modern policy problems require analysts to capture the interactions between policy and the
complexities of economic and social life, as well as between policies of different types …

This paper combines loan-level administrative data with household-level survey data to
analyze the impact of recent macroprudential policy changes in Canada using a …

In this paper, we define a new class of richness measures. In contrast to the often used
headcount, these new measures are sensitive to changes in rich individuals' incomes and …