Jonathan Leape

Publication List Details

Period

1985 - 2009

Number

37

Co-Authors

Wealth and portfolio consumption: theory and evidence (1998)

Leape, Jonathan, King, M. A.

We examine a survey of 6010 U.S. households and estimate a model for household portfolio allocation. We extend the conventional portfolio choice model in order to capture the observed incompleteness...

Wealth and portfolio consumption: theory and evidence (1998)

Leape, Jonathan, King, M. A.

We examine a survey of 6010 U.S. households and estimate a model for household portfolio allocation. We extend the conventional portfolio choice model in order to capture the observed incompleteness...

Conceptual issues in assessing the welfare impact of the British privatisation programme

Jonathan LEAPE

Assessing the welfare impact of a policy on the scale of the British privatisation programme is a daunting task. Four sets of issues raised in the impressive study by Florio et al of the British...

The London Congestion Charge

Jonathan Leape

By the 1990s, the average speed of trips across London was below that at the beginning of the twentieth century—before the car was introduced—and by the end of that decade, public concern over...

The impossibility of perfect neutrality: fundamental issues in tax reform

Jonathan Leape

The tax treatment of saving in the UK is far from uniform. Saving can take many different forms and there are almost as many different tax regimes. This mosaic of different regimes is not the result...

Wealth and Portfolio Composition: Theory and Evidence

King, Mervyn, Leape, Jonathan

In this paper, we examine a new survey of 6,010 United States households and estimate a model for the allocation of total net worth among different assets. The paper has three main aims. The first is...