Generational policy /

How generational policy affects the sustainability of a government's fiscal policy. In these eight 2002 Cairoli Lectures, presented at the Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Laurence Kotlikoff shows how generational policy works, how it is measured, and how much it matter...

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Main Author: Kotlikoff, Laurence J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2003.
Series:Cairoli lecture series.
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Introduction
  • II. The Incidence of Generational Policy
  • III. Illustrating Generational Policy
  • IV. Deficit Delusion and the Arbitrary Nature of Fiscal Labels
  • V. Generational Accounting
  • VI. Simulating Generational Policy
  • VII. Ricardian Equivalence
  • VIII. The Government's Role in Intergenerational Risk Sharing
  • IX. Conclusion.