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Book Dynamic Efficiency of Equilibrium Paths in an Overlapping generations Model

Download or read book Dynamic Efficiency of Equilibrium Paths in an Overlapping generations Model written by Oded Galor and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book On Overlapping Generations Models with Productive Capital

Download or read book On Overlapping Generations Models with Productive Capital written by Günther Lang and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was born out of a five-years research at Sonderforschungsbe reich 303 by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitiit Bonn and was approved as my doctoral thesis by the Rechts-und Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultiit in December 1994. It was my former colleague Wolfgang Peters who had drawn my atten tion to overlapping-generations models and to problems of intergenerational efficiency and distribution. The subtle connection between the latter two has been fascinating me from the very beginning: redistribution of the results of free trade can become necessary from the point of view of efficiency, although no externalities hamper the development of an economy. In spite of being a matured part of economics, neoclassical growth theory had left many questions unsolved, some of them even unrecognized by a large part of our profession. I took up the challenge to contribute to the investigation of some of these thorny problems. One of these issues is the often quoted idea of the inter generational con tract. Although intergenerational transfers can improve intertemporal effi ciency, the design of pension schemes to achieve an improvement of well-being of some generations without hurting that of any other, is not an easy task in an economy with flexible prices. Quite frequently, only interest rate and growth rate are taken into account when deciding on whether a generation wins or looses.

Book Overlapping Generations

Download or read book Overlapping Generations written by Stephen E. Spear and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-04 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 800 pound gorilla in the room of macroeconomics is the question of why the overlapping generations model didn’t become the central workhorse model for macroeconomics, as opposed to the neoclassical growth model. The authors here explore the co-evolution of the two models.

Book Dynamic Efficiency in Overlapping Generations Models with Stochastic Production

Download or read book Dynamic Efficiency in Overlapping Generations Models with Stochastic Production written by Itzhak Zilcha and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Handbook of Computable General Equilibrium Modeling

Download or read book Handbook of Computable General Equilibrium Modeling written by Peter B. Dixon and published by Newnes. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 1143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of 17 articles, top scholars synthesize and analyze scholarship on this widely used tool of policy analysis, setting forth its accomplishments, difficulties, and means of implementation. Though CGE modeling does not play a prominent role in top US graduate schools, it is employed universally in the development of economic policy. This collection is particularly important because it presents a history of modeling applications and examines competing points of view. Presents coherent summaries of CGE theories that inform major model types Covers the construction of CGE databases, model solving, and computer-assisted interpretation of results Shows how CGE modeling has made a contribution to economic policy

Book Three Essays on the Application of the Overlapping Generations Model

Download or read book Three Essays on the Application of the Overlapping Generations Model written by Sichao Wei and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation studies the dynamic relationships between economic growth, the environment, and conflict using overlapping generations models. In chapter 1, I compare pollution permits and green taxes. The model identifies pollution permits as a potential source of multiple equilibria. One nontrivial equilibrium is an environmental poverty trap (EPT) with low capital and a high stock of pollution. An economy operating around the equilibrium will gravitate toward this equilibrium in the long run. The other nontrivial equilibrium is a desirable one with high capital and a low stock of pollution. A saddle path leads to this desirable equilibrium. Alternatively, green taxes produce a unique stable equilibrium that avoids the EPT. My conclusion is that developing countries can continue to consider pollution permits as an efficient mechanism to improve environmental conditions but proceed with caution given the possibility of being drawn into an EPT. In chapter 2, I study the health effects of pollution on the accumulation of physical and human capital. Pollution negatively affects the accumulation of physical and human capital because pollution reduces longevity and the effectiveness of education expenditures. The model can generate rich dynamics in terms of the ratio of physical to human capital and the stock of pollution. One interesting case is that two stable Balanced Growth Paths (BGPs) emerge with a boundary demarcating the two. One BGP is desirable featuring a high growth rate and a low stock of pollution, whereas the other should be avoided because it is associated with a low growth rate and a high stock of pollution. Government policy can steer the economy towards the desirable BGP. Another interesting case is that cycles may emerge causing increased economic and environmental volatility. Government policy to divert more resources for pollution abatement is necessary to eliminate the cycles. In chapter 3, I study two model specifications of repeated contests over a prize. In the first specification, the contests are motivated by non-financial purposes and the conquered prize comes into agent’s utility function. In the second specification, the contests are motivated by financial purposes and the conquered prize comes into the agent’s budget constraint. The model gives rise to rich predictions in terms of economic growth, intensity of conflict, and dispute outcome both in the short run and in the long run. By comparing the two specifications, I conclude that the disputes motivated by non-financial purposes will escalate over time as the economy grows, whereas the disputes motivated by financial purposes may escalate in the short long but stabilize in the long run. By observing the time-series data for economic growth and conflict intensity, international mediators can trace back to the dominating cause of disputes, and thus design appropriate resolutions.

Book Comparative National Balance Sheets

Download or read book Comparative National Balance Sheets written by Raymond W. Goldsmith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1985-04 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raymond W. Goldsmith has combined his experience, good sense, and flair with figures to construct this groundbreaking comparative study of the balance sheets of twenty of the largest nations. A pioneer in the field of national accounts, Goldsmith now presents a work that will be a valuable tool in tracking the economic progress of and between nations. The majority of the balance sheets were created especially for this project, their components gleaned from fragmentary and heterogeneous data. There are approximately 3,500 entries, each measuring the value of one type of tangible or financial asset or liability at a given date. Goldsmith's estimates are keyed to fifteen benchmark dates in the economic progress of the cited nations, and for twelve nations he was able to construct balance sheets dating back to the nineteenth century or earlier. Combined, worldwide balance sheet are included for 1950 and 1978. Comparative National Balance Sheets will provide an essential basis for the quantitative analysis of the long-term financial development of these nations. In addition to national balance sheets for all large countries except Brazil and China, sectoral balance sheets for France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Japan, and the United States in the postwar period are also included.

Book Public Finance in an Overlapping Generations Economy

Download or read book Public Finance in an Overlapping Generations Economy written by T. Ihori and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-11-20 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a theoretically-based comprehensive analysis of macroeconomic consequences of fiscal policy using a popular economic model: the overlapping generations growth model. A wide range of essential public finance issues is analyzed, including the effects of tax reform on dynamic efficiency, positive and normative effects of public spending, considerations of taxes on fixed assets and monetary holdings, and sustainability of deficits. A unique approach is applied in the study of public finance: one expected to generate substantial interest among current graduate students and active researchers.

Book Resurrecting Equilibria Through Cycles

Download or read book Resurrecting Equilibria Through Cycles written by Richard C. Barnett and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Overlapping generations Economies Under Uncertainty

Download or read book Overlapping generations Economies Under Uncertainty written by Martin Hellwig and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper gives conditions for effi ciency and ineffi ciency of equilibrium allocations in an overlapping-generations model with a constant rate of population growth and with multiple assets, but without labour. Optimal portfolio choice implies that, for any period and history up to that period, the conditional certainty equivalents of the one-period-ahead marginal rates of return must be the same for all assets that are held in positive amounts. The effi ciency or ineffi ciency of equilibrium allocations depends on whether this common conditional certainty equivalent of returns on assets is larger or smaller than the population growth rate. If the growth rate is uncertain, the standard of comparison is the certainty equivalent of the population growth rate when interpreted as a marginal rate of return on an asset.

Book Dynamic General Equilibrium Modeling

Download or read book Dynamic General Equilibrium Modeling written by Burkhard Heer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern business cycle theory and growth theory uses stochastic dynamic general equilibrium models. In order to solve these models, economists need to use many mathematical tools. This book presents various methods in order to compute the dynamics of general equilibrium models. In part I, the representative-agent stochastic growth model is solved with the help of value function iteration, linear and linear quadratic approximation methods, parameterised expectations and projection methods. In order to apply these methods, fundamentals from numerical analysis are reviewed in detail. In particular, the book discusses issues that are often neglected in existing work on computational methods, e.g. how to find a good initial value. In part II, the authors discuss methods in order to solve heterogeneous-agent economies. In such economies, the distribution of the individual state variables is endogenous. This part of the book also serves as an introduction to the modern theory of distribution economics. Applications include the dynamics of the income distribution over the business cycle or the overlapping-generations model. In an accompanying home page to this book, computer codes to all applications can be downloaded.

Book Handbook of Mathematical Economics

Download or read book Handbook of Mathematical Economics written by Kenneth J. Arrow and published by North Holland. This book was released on 1981 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V.2: Mathematical approaches to microeconomic theory. Mathematical approaches to competitive equilibrium.

Book Samuelsonian Economics and the Twenty First Century

Download or read book Samuelsonian Economics and the Twenty First Century written by Michael Szenberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-24 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The underlying notion in this volume is to spotlight, critically assess, and illuminate Paul A. Samuelson's extraordinarily voluminous, diverse, and groundbreaking contributions that encompass the entire field of economics through the lens of most eminent scholars. All this in honor of his ninetieth birthday celebrated on May 15, 2005 in Fairmont Hotel in Boston in the company of hundreds of scholars and their spouses."--Pref.

Book A Theory of Economic Growth

Download or read book A Theory of Economic Growth written by David de la Croix and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-24 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an in-depth treatment of the overlapping generations model in economics incorporating production.

Book Recursive Methods in Economic Dynamics

Download or read book Recursive Methods in Economic Dynamics written by Nancy L. Stokey and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1989-10-10 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rigorous but brilliantly lucid book presents a self-contained treatment of modern economic dynamics. Stokey, Lucas, and Prescott develop the basic methods of recursive analysis and illustrate the many areas where they can usefully be applied.

Book Introduction to Modern Economic Growth

Download or read book Introduction to Modern Economic Growth written by Daron Acemoglu and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-15 with total page 1009 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Modern Economic Growth is a groundbreaking text from one of today's leading economists. Daron Acemoglu gives graduate students not only the tools to analyze growth and related macroeconomic problems, but also the broad perspective needed to apply those tools to the big-picture questions of growth and divergence. And he introduces the economic and mathematical foundations of modern growth theory and macroeconomics in a rigorous but easy to follow manner. After covering the necessary background on dynamic general equilibrium and dynamic optimization, the book presents the basic workhorse models of growth and takes students to the frontier areas of growth theory, including models of human capital, endogenous technological change, technology transfer, international trade, economic development, and political economy. The book integrates these theories with data and shows how theoretical approaches can lead to better perspectives on the fundamental causes of economic growth and the wealth of nations. Innovative and authoritative, this book is likely to shape how economic growth is taught and learned for years to come. Introduces all the foundations for understanding economic growth and dynamic macroeconomic analysis Focuses on the big-picture questions of economic growth Provides mathematical foundations Presents dynamic general equilibrium Covers models such as basic Solow, neoclassical growth, and overlapping generations, as well as models of endogenous technology and international linkages Addresses frontier research areas such as international linkages, international trade, political economy, and economic development and structural change An accompanying Student Solutions Manual containing the answers to selected exercises is available (978-0-691-14163-3/$24.95). See: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8970.html. For Professors only: To access a complete solutions manual online, email us at: [email protected]