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The taxation of bequests has long been and still is subject to intensive discussions in many industrialized countries. Triggered by these discussions, Verena Kley analyzes the taxation of bequests from economic perspectives, focusing on wealth transfers of very rich individuals. Given empirical...
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Introduction -- A Brief Survey of the Literature -- The Closed Economy: The Solow Model -- Overlapping Generations -- Infinite Horizon -- The Small Open Economy: The Solow Model -- Overlapping Generations -- Two Countries: The Solow Model -- Synopsis -- Conclusion -- Result
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This book presents a new computational approach to solving large-scale Auerbach-Kotlikoff Overlapping Generations (OLG) models in a complementarity format. Unlike with integrated solution methods, the proposed decomposition algorithm allows for the solution of multi-regional and multi-sectoral...
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This volume explores intergenerational practices and their impact on social sustainability, with an emphasis on developing programmatic efforts to address profound social challenges such as underperforming educational and work-related systems, failing support systems for dependent or vulnerable...
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Today, the most pressing challenges for public economics are of macroeconomic nature: pensions, debt, income distribution, and fiscal sustainability. All these problems are compounded by the phenomenon of demographic transition and aging. This graduate textbook addresses these issues with the...
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policy, and political economy. The book merges macroeconomic growth models with elements of political economic theory to …
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Progress -- 4 Economic Growth and Public Debt in the World Economy -- 5 "New" Growth Theory and Knowledge Externalities in … rich countries and policies to mitigate climate change are explored . The first part starts from the “old” growth theory … and bridges to the “new” growth theory (including R&D and human capital approaches). The second part presents an …
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Introduction -- The Revived Interest in the Problems of Income and Wealth Distribution -- Re-incorporating Distributional Issues Into the Main Body of Economic Analysis -- Aim and Contents of this Book -- The Parametric Approach to Income and Wealth Distributional Analysis -- The Idea of a...
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This book is written in light of the latest developments in the field of multidimensional poverty measurement. It includes clear presentations of more than a dozen different quantitative techniques and provides empirical illustrations based on data sources from developed or developing countries
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