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Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 2021

Generational policy is a fundamental aspect of a nation's fiscal affairs. The policy involves redistributing resources across generations and allocating to particular generations the burden of paying the government's bills. This chapter of the second edition of The Handbook of Public Economics...

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Is it is or is it Ain't My Obligation? Regional Debt in Monetary Unions

Cooper, Russell; Kempf, Hubert; Peled, Dan - 2021

This paper studies the implications of the circulation of interest bearing regional debt in a monetary union. Does the circulation of this debt have the same monetary implications as the printing of money by a central government? Or are the obligations of this debt simply backed by future...

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The Impact on Consumption and Saving of Current and Future Fiscal Policies

Carman, Katherine Grace; Gokhale, Jagadeesh; Kotlikoff, … - 2021

alternative fiscal policies on current consumption and saving. Studies to date have examined the response of current consumption … consumption smoothing is actually feasible. ESPlanner's saving and life insurance recommendations generate the smoothest possible … survival-state contingent lifetime consumption path for the household without putting it into debt. Such consumption smoothing …

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Insulation Impossible : Fiscal Spillovers in a Monetary Union

Cooper, Russell - 2010

This paper studies fiscal spillovers in a monetary union. The focus of the analysis is on the interaction between the fiscal policy of member countries (regions) and the central monetary authority. When capital markets are integrated, the fiscal policy of one country will influence equilibrium...

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Establishing a Monetary Union

Cooper, Russell; Kempf, Hubert - 2021

when young and have random tastes over the composition (domestic vs. foreign goods) of old age consumption. In equilibrium … multiple currencies to deal with uncertainty in their optimal consumption bundles. We argue that this equilibrium is Pareto …

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Game Over : Simulating Unsustainable Fiscal Policy

Evans, Richard W. - 2014

Fiscal sustainability is one of the most pressing policy issues of our time. Yet it remains difficult to quantify. Official debt is plagued with a number of measurement difficulties since its measurement reflects the choice of words, not policies. And forming the fiscal gap-the imbalance in the...

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Russia's Fiscal Gap

Goryunov, Eugene - 2013

Every country faces what economists call an intertemporal (across time) budget constraint, which requires that its government's future expenditures, including the servicing of its outstanding official debt, be covered by its government's future receipts when measured in present value. The...

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Demographics, Fiscal Policy, and U.S. Saving in the 1980s and Beyond

Auerbach, Alan J. - 2010

This paper focuses on U.S. saving, demographics, and fiscal policy. We use data from the Consumer Expenditure Surveys of the 1980s to consider the effect of demographic change on past and future U.S. saving rates. Our findings indicate that demographic change may significantly alter the U.S....

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Is it is or is it Ain't My Obligation? Regional Debt in a Fiscal Federation

Cooper, Russell - 2015

smooth consumption and distortionary taxes across the regions. We characterize the conditions under which bailouts occur and …

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Generational Accounts - a Meaningful Alternative to Deficit Accounting

Auerbach, Alan J.; Gokhale, Jagadeesh; Kotlikoff, … - 2022

This paper presents a set of generational accounts (GAS) that can be used to assess the fiscal burden current generations are placing on future generations. The GAS indicate the net present value amount that current and future generations are projected to pay to the government now and in the...

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