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failure that may lead to inefficiently low equilibrium fertility and therefore to a need for government intervention. The …) model with fertility choice and altruism, and model ownership by introducing a minimum constraint on transfers from parents … transfer floor is binding, fertility choices are inefficient. We show how this inefficiency relates to dynamic inefficiency in …
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This paper analyses the relationship between age-specific fertility, mortality and real wages in Sweden during the … demographic transition. We take an overlapping generation’s model of life cycle fertility and fit it to actual Swedish time …-series data over the past two and a half centuries. The model fits the data well, accurately portraying the total fertility …
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In this Paper, we study the role of subsidies to fertility in ensuring the political viability of unfunded social … older generations, and in turn choose current levels of fertility subsidies, and future levels of social security benefits … converge to a steady state lower than simple extrapolation of current trends would imply, and fertility will rebound with the …
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This paper explores the optimal risk sharing arrangement between generations in an overlapping generations model with endogenous growth. We allow for nonseparable preferences, paying particular attention to the risk aversion of the old as well as overall 'life-cycle' risk aversion. We provide a...
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I show how to construct a stochastic long-lived overlapping generation’s model that is based on a non-stochastic model developed by Olivier Blanchard and Philippe Weil and that nests the RBC model as a special case. My innovation over previous work is to add an aggregate stochastic shock. I...
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-generational redistribution, risk aversion, financial markets, governmental debt- on the political sustainability of a pay-as-you-go system is …
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This paper examines the impact of policy-makers' horizons on the sustainability of international cooperation. We describe a prisoners' dilemma game between two infinitely-lived organizations (countries) run by agents (policy-makers) with a shorter tenure. The agents' mandates are finite but...
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In this paper we consider the effects of minimum wage legislation in an overlapping generations model. In our model there is an intergenerational externality in the accumulation of human capital since the production of human capital of every new generation depends positively on the average human...
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We assess some likely consequences of commercial policy in an intertemporal CGE model of an imperfectly competitive, small open economy. Specifically, we combine an overlapping generations model of aggregate savings with capital accumulation by forward-looking investors and production under...
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This Paper studies a model where Information Technology, while typically increasing overall inequality, is likely to harm some people at intermediate and high levels of the distribution of income but to benefit people at the bottom; where within a given occupation it may harm some workers while...
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