Roberto Cardarelli and Nicola Sartor present generational accounting estimates for Italy which is characterised by the very low fertility rate, the high public debt and the large proportion of social expenditure targeted to the elderly. The paper points to the reduction in the intergenerational...

The paper presents a large scale overlapping generation model with heterogeneous agents, where the family is the decision unit. We calibrate the model for three European countries – France, Italy and Sweden – which show marked differences in the design of some public programs. We examine the...