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and policy developments in Serbia. The analysis indicates that privatization can result in sizable fiscal savings. …
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We introduce intergenerational transfers into a general equilihrium life-cycle model in order to explain observed levels of wealth heterogeneity. In our overlapping generations model, heterogenous agents face uncertain lifetime and leave both accidental and voluntary bequests to their cinldren....
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China’s growth is characterized by massive capital accumulation, made possible by high and increasing domestic savings …. In this paper we develop a model with the aim of explaining why savings rates have been high and increasing,and we … investigate the general equilibrium effects on capital accumulation and growth. We show that increased savings and capital …
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In a standard OLG model of a small open economy with logarithmic utility and endogenous fertility we show that the reversion of the relationship between fertility and wages (i.e. a transition from the Malthusian to the Modern fertility behaviour) may be possible in presence of intergenerational...
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This paper explores the consequences of skill biased technological progress on the savings rates. The literature, both … burgeoned considerably. So has the literature on declining household savings, motivated by the American experience over the past … couple of decades. I present a general equilibrium model where declining savings rates emerges as an outcome of exogenously …
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China's growth is characterized by massive capital accumulation, made possible by high and increasing domestic savings …. In this paper we develop a model with the aim of explaining why savings rates have been high and increasing, and we … investigate the general equilibrium effects on capital accumulation and growth. We show that increased savings and capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010663587
China's growth is characterized by massive capital accumulation, made possible by high and increasing domestic savings …. In this paper we develop a model with the aim of explaining why savings rates have been high and increasing, and we … investigate the general equilibrium effects on capital accumulation and growth. We show that increased savings and capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010819021
In an overlapping generations model, rents to human capital play a key role in increasing savings. In the absence of … because it allows inframarginal workers to earn rents on their human capital, which then increase savings. Public education is …
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This paper examines the macroeconomic implications of life-cycle and dynastic saving behavior for closed and small, open economies. Using an extended version of Blanchard’s overlapping agents model, the analytical framework nests these two competing views, treating agents as either dynastic...
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Prices in Russia have been decontrolled in several steps since early 1991, after decades of near-fixity. Their behavior before and after the January 1992 price liberalization is analyzed here, as are the associated movements of wages and overall consumer incomes and expenditures. The emphasis is...
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