Working Paper Series
WP2023-02 “Progressive Pension and Optimal Tax Progressivity“ by Chung Tran and Nabeeh Zakariyya
WP2023-01 “Uninterrupted Growth, Redistribution and Inequality: The Australian Case 1991-2020″ by Chung Tran and Nabeeh Zakariyya
Papers in Progress
- “Incidence of Capital Income Taxation in a Lifecycle Economy with Firm Heterogeneity”
- “Progressive Pension and Optimal Tax Progressivity”
- “Dividend Imputation, Investment and Capital Accumulation in Open Economies”
- “On the Limits of Fiscal Financing: The Case of Australia”
- “Aggregate Implications of Child-Related Transfers with Means Testing”
Papers by research themes:
Income Dynamics, Redistribution and Inequality
- “Lifecycle Earnings Risk and Insurance: New Evidence from Australia”
- Tax Progressivity in Australia: Facts, Measurements and Estimates”
Health and Macroeconomy
- “Health Risk, Insurance and Optimal Progressive Income Taxation”
- Authors: Juergen Jung and Chung Tran
- Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023
- Paper, Slides, Appendix, NEP-DGE Blog
- “Social Health Insurance: A Quantitative Exploration”
- “Market Inefficiency, Insurance Mandate and Welfare: U.S Health Care Reform 2010”
- “Medical Consumption over the Life Cycle: Facts from a U.S. Medical Expenditure Panel Survey”
- “The Macroeconomics of Health Savings Accounts”
Taxation and Fiscal Policies
- “Incidence of Capital Income Taxation in a Lifecycle Economy with Firm Heterogeneity”
- Authors: Chung Tran and Sebastian Wende
- Paper, Slides
- “Progressive Pension and Optimal Tax Progressivity”
- “Dividend Imputation, Investment and Capital Accumulation in Open Economies”
- “On the Marginal Excess Burden of Taxation in an Overlapping Generations Economy”
- “Temptation and Taxation with Elastic Labor”
- Author: Chung Tran
- Economic Modelling, Vol. 70, April 2018
- Paper, Slides
- “Fiscal Policy as a Temptation Control Device”
- “Trade-Offs in Means-Tested Pension Design”
- Authors: Chung Tran and Alan Woodland
- Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 47, October 2014
- Paper, Slides, Appendix, Treasury Review
- “Temptation and Social Security in a Dynastic Framework”
- Authors: Cagri Kumru and Chung Tran
- European Economic Review, Vol. 56 (7), October 2012
- Paper, Slides
Debt, Fiscal Limits and Budget Repairing Measures
- “On the Limits of Fiscal Financing: The Case of Australia”
- “Comparing Budget Repair Measures in a Small Open Economy with Growing Debt”
- “Fiscal Austerity Measures: Spending Cuts vs. Tax Increases”
Fiscal Policies in Developing Countries
- “The Extension of Social Security Coverage in Developing Countries”
- “Public Pension Policies and Capital Accumulation in an Emerging Economy: The Case of Brazil”
- Authors: Gerhard Glomm, Juergen Jung, Changmin Lee and Chung Tran
- The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 10 (1), Article 15, May 2010
- Paper, Slides, EL Blog
- “Macroeconomic Implications of Early Retirements in the Public Sector: The Case of Brazil”
- Authors: Gerhard Glomm, Juergen Jung and Chung Tran
- Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 33 (4), April 2009
- Paper, Slides
- “Transfers and Labor Market Behaviors of the Elderly in Developing Countries”
- Authors: Juergen Jung and Chung Tran
- Paper, Slides
The Macroeconomic Consequences of Population Aging
- “Sustainable and Equitable Pension with Means-Testing in Aging Economies”
- “Facing Demographic Challenges: Pension Cuts or Tax Hikes”
- “Aging and Health Financing in the US: A General Equilibrium Analysis”
- Authors: Juergen Jung, Chung Tran and Matt Chambers
- European Economic Review, Vol. 100, November 2017
- Paper, Slides, NEP-DGE Blog
- “The Dynamic Fiscal Effects of Demographic Shift: The Case of Australia”
- Authors: George Kudrna, Chung Tran and Alan Woodland
- Economic Modelling, Vol. 50, November 2015
- Paper, Slides, Treasury Review
- “Fiscal Space under Demographic Shift”