This paper on the class of models studiyng the interaction between an altruistic benefactor and a selfish recipient. Bequest is the only transfer from an altruistic parent to his selfish son and we assume that it is not a valid collateral for bank loans. This is equivalent to addding a...

This paper shows that Barro's (1974) debt neutrliaty theorem does not hold in OLG economies whenever the marginal rate of substitution between both periods' consumptions evaluated at the modified golden rule capital stock is lower that the degree of intergenerational altruism. It could be...

Nous etudions dans un modele a generations avec altruisme imparfait la distribution de la richesse de long terme ainsi que les inegalites sociales qu'elle engendre. Puis nous introduisons successivement dans le modele deux types de politique fiscale redistributive: une taxation des heritages et...

In the static and sequntial economies, where the available assets are "Arrow securities" the inflation is without effect of the equilibrium allocations, when the initial endowments of securities are zero. The indeterminacy is only nominal. The same equilibrium allocations can be obtained with...