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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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Real Estate Prices and the Importance of Bequest Taxation
Bellettini, Giorgio; Taddei, Filippo - 2021
implications. We test the predictions of our theory employing a unique policy shock: the abolition of bequest and donation taxation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316391
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The Optimal Babel - An Economic Framework for the Analysis of Dynamic Language Rights
Wickström, Bengt-Arne - 2021
We analyze various normatively determined distributions of language rights in multilingual settings. A general model for the analysis of language rights over time in a model with overlapping generations is set up. This model is then first used to find efficient allocations of rights in the...
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Après Nous Le Déluge? Direct Democracy and Intergenerational Conflicts in Ageing Societies
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M. - 2016
To assess the likely effects of population ageing on the outcomes of direct democracy, we analyze the effect of age on voting decisions in public referenda. To this end, we provide the first quantitative review of the literature and a case study of the Stuttgart 21 referendum on one of the...
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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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Ageing, Government Budgets, Retirement, and Growth
Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín - 2011
We analyze the short and long run effects of demographic ageing - increased longevity and reduced fertility - on per-capita growth. The OLG model captures direct effects, working through adjustments in the savings rate, labor supply, and capital deepening, and indirect effects, working through...
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Risk Sharing in Defined-Contribution Funded Pension Systems
Beetsma, Roel M. W. J. - 2011
This paper explores the introduction of collective risk-sharing elements in defined contribution pension contracts. We … consider status-contingent, age-contingent and asset contingent risk-sharing arrangements. All arrangements raise aggregate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118167
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Intergenerational Risk Sharing by Means of Pay-as-You-Go Programs - an Investigation of Alternative Mechanisms
Thogersen, Oystein - 2007
the magnitude of the optimal paygo program and the nature of the underlying risk sharing effects are very sensitive to the … chosen combination of risk concepts and stochastic specification of long run aggregate wage income growth. In an additive way … we distinguish between the pooling of wage and capital risks within periods and two different intertemporal risk sharing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778396
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Intergenerational Risk-Sharing Through Funded Pensions and Public Debt
Chen, Damiaan - 2014
We explore the benefits of intergenerational risk-sharing through both private funded pensions and via the public debt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058155
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On Welfare Frameworks and Catastrophic Climate Risks
Millner, Antony - 2021
Recent theoretical work in the economics of climate change has suggested that climate policy is highly sensitive to ‘fat-tailed’ risks of catastrophic outcomes (Weitzman, 2009b). Such risks are suggested to be an inevitable consequence of scientific uncertainty about the effects of increased...
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