The paper presents numerical simulations of various fiscal rules for oil-producing countries. Welfare implications are … sensitive to the choice of the social welfare function, initial conditions, and non-oil growth prospects. The distribution of …

This paper develops a framework for the quantitative analysis of individual income dynamics, mobility and welfare … consumption-saving model with labor income risk and incomplete markets to relate income dynamics to consumption and welfare, and … derive analytical expressions for income mobility and welfare as a function of the various parameters of the underlying …

welfare within an overlapping generations model. More precise information about idiosyncratic production shocks has ambiguous … effects on technological progress and welfare, which depend critically on the risk sharing capacity of the economy's financial … allocation and creates a negative uncertainty-related welfare effect, at the same time as it accelerates technological progress …

paper introduces the concept of the dynastic general equilibrium value of life to measure welfare gains from the increase in … life expectancy. A calibration study finds sizable welfare gains, but these gains hardly mitigate the large inequality …

limited. We develop a simple welfare-based measure that captures how far countries are from the ideal of perfect risk sharing …

inflows of external income?the sum of remittances, FDI and general government transfers?from major oil-exporting economies … that real output in the long run is shaped by: (i) oil prices through their impact on external income and in turn on … the hypothesis that a large share of Jordan's output volatility can be associated with fluctuations in net income received …

This paper examines the macroeconomic impact of migration on income convergence in the EU's New Member States (NMS …