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-generations model, where one country has PAYG pensions and the other country has funded pensions. The paper shows that the PAYG country …
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decomposition of indicators is empirically relevant. Standard generational accounting suggests that fiscal sustainability in Spain … comparisons of the fiscal sustainability indicators obtained across time and countries truly meaningful. We also show that a … demographic effect and a debt effect may bias fiscal sustainability measures over time, and establish a routine to control for …
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reform, the U.S. risks joining the PIIGS – Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain – on the road to ruin through …
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whether Italy's public finances can achieve sustainability under the spending pressure exerted by future demographic and … macroeconomic developments. The paper addresses this question by assessing long-term fiscal sustainability, following the …
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Using an overlapping generations model, two new indicators of public pension system sustainability are proposed: the … are strikingly different. Most nations have little scope to further finance pensions out of labour income taxation over …
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whether Italy's public finances can achieve sustainability under the spending pressure exerted by future demographic and … macroeconomic developments. The paper addresses this question by assessing long-term fiscal sustainability, following the commonly …
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We extend "economic equivalence" results, like the Ricardian equivalence proposition, to the political sphere where policy is chosen sequentially. We derive conditions under which a policy regime (summarizing admissible policy choices in every period) and a state are "politico-economically...
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scheme ("second pillar") that will provide increasing amounts of supplementary pensions to those entering retirement in the …
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sustainability if long-term interest rates rise. Bringing back public debt to 60% of GDP even by 2030 would require a fiscal effort …
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The stock of public debt in some developed countries continues to increase because of a lack of tax revenues and the burdens of social security. Many of those developed countries suffer from lower birth rates. Child allowances might help to raise fertility, leading to higher tax revenue in the...
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