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Aging populations in advanced economies are placing ever-increasing demands on government spending in the form of old-age benefits. Economies that have promised substantially more benefits than they have made provision to finance are heading into a prolonged era of fiscal stress. Unresolved...
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This paper assesses the effects of demographic changes on the transmission of monetary policy to consumption. First, I provide empirical estimates of age-specific consumption elasticities to interest rate shocks. The consumption of the young is significantly more responsive than the national...
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Aging populations in advanced economies are placing ever-increasing demands on government spending in the form of old-age benefits. Economies that have promised substantially more benefits than they have made provision to finance are heading into a prolonged era of fiscal stress. Unresolved...
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s differed from its predecessors in three important respects: productivity, inflation, and cyclical variability. In the … United States, labor productivity increased much faster in the 1990s than in the previous decades and, contrary to the usual … pattern, accelerated with the duration of the expansion. The view that most of the productivity acceleration was only cyclical …
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