Federalism as a device for reducing the budget of a central government john m. Flat tax reforms a dynamic general equilibrium analysis. Due to a sharp decline in the fertility rate and a rapid increase in longevity, japans population aging is the furthest advanced in the world. Given the declining trend in the proportion of young people to the old aged, it is feared that existing payasyougo pension system may not be sustainable and it necessitates higher tax or premium contributions to maintain the sustainability of the fiscal. This paper employs a multicountry large scale overlapping generations model with uninsurable labor productivity and mortality risk to quantify the impact of the demographic transition towards an older population in industrialized countries on worldwide rates of return, international capital flows and the distribution of wealth and welfare in the oecd. Our model replicates well the time paths of japans macroeconomic variables from the 1980s to the 2000s and yields future paths. A meaningful way to evaluate fiscal policy by alan j. Solving olg models with many cohorts, asset choice and. Stockholm school of economics department of economics master thesis 2007 flat tax reforms. In this book, kenneth judd presents techniques from the numerical analysis and applied mathematics literatures and shows how to use them in economic analyses.
Simulating computable overlapping generations models with. On the consequences of demographic change for rates of. Arrau and schmidthebbel 1993 and auerbach and kotlikoff 1987 suggest a funded system to increase both output and social welfare in comparison to an unfunded system, with differences growi ng larger depending on tax or debt financing of the transition period between systems. As it can be seen on the table, revenues as fraction of gdp stabilize around 8% of gdp. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. A living cell deforms or flows in response to mechanical stresses. The joint labor supply decision of married couples and the. The joint labor supply decision of married couples and the social security pension system. Generational accounting was developed by alan auerbach, jagadeesh gokhale, and laurence kotlikoff as an alternative to deficit accounting in assessing the. This paper develops an auerbach and kotlikoff 1 type general equilibrium overlapping. The book uses matlab as a tool to solve problems from the field of mechanisms and robots. Who should pay an insurance premium for equality of the. We consider a prototype auerbachkotlikoff model which includes up to 2000 heterogeneous households within each generation which dif fer with respect to. Bucks4books title list alphabetical by title psychology.
Analyzing fiscal policies in a heterogeneousagent overlappinggenerations economy article in handbook of computational economics 3 april 2011 with 337 reads how we measure reads. The book discusses the tools for formulating the mathematical equations, and also the methods of solving them using a modern computing tool like matlab. The welfare effects of pension reforms in an aging economy. This paper develops a multigenerational overlapping olg model to investigate the welfare effects of pension reforms in an aging economy. To solve for the equilibrium transition path we use a strategy similar to auerbach and kotlikoff 1987. Pdf generational accounting and immigration in the. In contrast, this text by alan auerbach and laurence kotlikoff uses a single analytic framework the twoperiod lifecycle model to explore and connect each of the major issues in contemporary macroeconomics. An emphasis is placed on basic concepts, derivations, and interpretations of the general principles. The overlapping generations olg model is an important framework for analyzing any type of question in which age cohorts are affected differently by exogenous shocks. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read.
In focusing on labor supply i am follow ing lucas and rapping 1969 lucas 1972 kydland and prescott 1982 hansen 1985 and auerbach and kotlikoff 1987. Dynamic overlapping generations computable general. An edge detection algorithm using the prewitt method matlab was applied to get the contours of the binary image figure 1d. This is not surprising since labor income as fraction of gdp is approximately 60%, while the payroll tax rate is around 20%. Read precautionary portfolio behavior from a lifecycle perspective, journal of economic dynamics and control on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips. The welfare criterion we employ is exante before ability is realized expected with respect to. The diamondzodrow model, handbook of computable general equilibrium modeling, in.
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The olg model is a twocountry version of a standard auerbach kotlikoff olg model auerbach and kotlikoff, 1987 with stylized demographic projections which. The revised secrets to maxing out your social security. Is cell rheology governed by nonequilibriumtoequilibrium. Generational accounting and immigration in the united states. Auerbach and kotlikoff 1981 and auerbach and kotlikoff 1987. Display of the result of downloads and visits, as well as the number of cited articles. As a consequence of this finding, we often have a normal reaction of savingsi. Dynare addon for risksensitive linear approximations.
In this paper we quantitatively characterize the optimal capital and labor income tax in an overlapping generations model with idiosyncratic, uninsurable income shocks, where households also differ permanently with respect to their ability to generate income. First, we consider the features of the optimal allocations. Columns 1 and 2 of table 1 show the projected evolution of payg revenues and expenditures between 1960 and 2050 in absence of the 1979 parametric reform. This paper is available for download without charge at. In this study we explore the macroeconomic impact of population aging using a fullfledged overlapping generations model. Yet the molecular basis that governs this timescaledependent behavior is elusive. The auerbach and kotlikoff 1987 model henceforth the ak model builds on the over lapping generations structure of samuelson 1958 and diamond 1965. The macroeconomic and distributional implications of fiscal consolidations in lowincome countries published on by international monetary fund.
The first is stemming from auerbach and kotlikoff, 1987 and suggests fixing the terminal values of some of the variables at their steadystate values. Generational accounting was developed by alan auerbach, jagadeesh gokhale, and laurence kotlikoff as an alternative to deficit accounting in assessing the long term impact on different cohorts from current fiscal policy. Read simulating computable overlapping generations models with troll, computational economics on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips. Recent developments with applied olg models citeseerx. Currently, you may download four gauss programs and four matlab programs from this page. Programs and data university of california, berkeley. Full text of foundations of modern macroeconomics 3rd. This paper illustrates the technique of generational accountin.
According to column d, these values are x 1 20 and x 2 35. This paper uses a new version of the auerbach kotlikoff model to consider alternative ways to. Dynamic overlapping generations computable general equilibrium models and the analysis of tax policy. Excel files and matlab programs for endogenous growth models downloads.
This paper extends the auerbach kotlikoff lifecycle simulation. The olg model is a twocountry version of a standard auerbach kotlikoff olg model auerbach and kotlikoff, 1987 with stylized demographic projections which i use to generate complicated transitional dynamics. On the consequences of demographic change for rates of returns to capital, and the distribution of wealth and welfare. All material on this site has been provided by the respective. Finding the transition path is conceptually like finding the steady state.
The theory of taxation and public economics louis kaplow. Lines 4 and 5 show the results of the sensitivity analysis based on changes in one of the objective function coefficients section 17. Professor kotlikoff is a ny times best selling author and the author or coauthor of 19 books. Conny olovsson, matthew lindquist and caroline ingeborn.
The following compressed files contain the generational accounting program. Sensitivity analysis an overview sciencedirect topics. Generational accounting was developed by alan auerbach, jagadeesh gokhale, and laurence kotlikoff as an alternative to deficit accounting. The macroeconomic and distributional implications of. The number of exposed white voxel faces gave us the total surface area sa. Published in volume 8, issue 1, pages 7394 of journal of economic perspectives, winter 1994, abstract.
The naked fleece i began were a head with one of the workers, which did the slanting stoma beautiful. Many undergraduate texts treat macroeconomics as a set of distinct topics rather than as a unified body of theory and empirical findings. Mathematica and matlab programs for the method of endogenous gridpoints for solving dynamic stochastic optimization problems. However, as the dimensions and degree of heterogeneity in these models increase, the computational burden imposed by rational expectations solution methods for nonstationary equilibrium transition paths increases. A recent report shows that dynamic mechanics of living cells depends on the timescale of mechanical loading, in contrast to the prevailing view of some authors that cell rheology is timescalefree. Ultrastructure of the intercellular space in adult murine. To harness the full power of computer technology, economists need to use a broad range of mathematical techniques. Making carbon taxation a generational win win, boston university department of economics the institute for economic development working papers series dp3, boston university department of economics. Introduction owing to falling birth rates, increased longevity and the retirement of the baby. This means that the planner designs a tax system to provide additional treatment for the newborn children and this system gives parents a greater incentive to work. M matlab solve the expenditure share problem described in section 6 of the paper using the numerical scheme of proposition 5.
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