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fiscal policies that achieve a desired degree of redistribution in society. We find that marginal tax rates on the top 1% of …
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to borrowers. In this study, we consider redistribution as a channel for aggregate and welfare effects of inflation. We …-generations model of the U.S. economy. While the redistribution shock is zero sum, households react asymmetrically, mostly because … increase in savings. Even though inflation-induced redistribution has a persistent negative effect on output, it improves the …
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We study the politics of intergenerational redistribution in an overlapping generations model with short …
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(re-)distribution associated with the government's provision of public goods and services. Third, generational accounting …
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second generation. The paper characterizes the determinants of the equilibrium intergenerational redistribution carried out … redistribution. The key features of the model are heterogeneity within each generation and altruism across generations …
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In this paper we construct a stochastic overlapping-generations general equilibrium model in which households are subject to aggregate shocks that affect both wages and asset prices. We use a calibrated version of the model to quantify how the welfare costs of severe recessions are distributed...
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, while for sufficiently high rates it is negative. Additionally, income redistribution to the young will normally have …
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We study the dynamic properties of the wealth distribution in an overlapping generations model with warm-glow bequests and heterogeneous attitudes towards risk. Some dynasties of agents are risk averters, and others are risk lovers. Agents can invest in two types of Lucas trees. The two types of...
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The worldwide problem with pay-as-you-go (PAYG) social security systems isn't just financial. This study indicates that these systems may have exerted adverse effects on key demographic factors, private savings, and long-term growth rates. Through a comprehensive endogenous-growth model where...
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The current level and form of subsidization of college education is often rationalized by appeal to capital constraints on individuals. Because borrowing against human capital is difficult, capital constraints can lead to nonoptimal outcomes unless government intervenes. We develop a simple...
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