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Growth and the Ageing Joneses
Fisher, Walter H.; Heijdra, Ben J. - 2021
We incorporate Keeping-up-with-the-Joneses (KUJ) preferences into the Blanchard-Yaari (BY) framework and develop, using an AK technology, a model of balanced growth. In this context we investigate status preference, demographic, and pension policy shocks. We find that a higher degree of KUJ...
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Aging, Social Security Design, and Capital Accumulation
Dedry, Antoine - 2015
savings and, thus, income and welfare, in a closed economy with unfunded pension system based on defined contributions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009863
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Aging, Social Security Design, and Capital Accumulation
Dedry, Antoine - 2016
This paper analyzes the impact of demographic aging on capital accumulation and welfare in economies with unfunded pensions. Using a two-period overlapping generation model with potentially endogenous retirement decisions, it shows that both the type of aging, i.e. declining fertility or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986115
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Facing Demographic Challenges : Pension Cuts or Tax Hikes
Kudrna, George - 2016
In this paper, we investigate two fiscal policy options to mitigate fiscal pressure arising from ageing of the Australian population: pension cuts or tax hikes. Using a computable overlapping generations model, we find that while both policy options achieve the same fiscal goal, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001109
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Sharing Demographic Risk - Who is Afraid of the Baby Bust?
Ludwig, Alexander; Reiter, Michael - 2021
We model the optimal reaction of a public PAYG pension system to demographic shocks. We compare the ex-ante first best and second best solution of a Ramsey planner with full commitment to the outcome under simple third best rules that mimic the pension systems observed in the real world. The...
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Probabilistic Aging
Grafenhofer, Dominik; Jaag, Christian; Keuschnigg, Christian - 2021
The paper develops an overlapping generations model with probabilistic aging of households. We define age as a set of personal attributes such as earnings potential, health and tastes that are characteristic of a person's position in the life-cycle. In assuming a limited number of different...
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Global Demographic Change and Climate Policies
Gerlagh, Reyer - 2017
the OLG-demography literature, such as a rise in households' savings, and a declining rate of return to capital. We also …
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Efficient Subsidization of Human Capital Accumulation with Overlapping Generations and Endogenous Growth
Richter, Wolfram F. - 2010
This paper studies second best policies for education, saving, and labour in an OLG model in which endogenous growth results from human capital accumulation. Government expenditures have to be financed by linear instruments so that growth equilibria are inefficient. The inefficiency is...
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Will Women Save More than Men? A Theoretical Model of Savings and Marriage
Grossbard, Shoshana Amyra - 2010
higher marriage rates and higher divorce rates will be associated with higher savings rates in the presence of economies of … marriage and with lower savings rates in the presence of diseconomies of marriage. In the context of traditional gender roles … traditional gender roles and marital status to understanding cross-country variation in gender differentials in savings behavior …
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Re-Examining the Decline in the US Saving Rate : The Impact of Mortgage Equity Withdrawal
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2013
In this paper we examine the role of mortgage equity withdrawal in explaining the decline of the US saving rate, since when house prices rise and mortgage rates are low, homeowners have an incentive to withdraw housing equity and this may affect the saving rate. We estimate a Vector Error...
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