Consider an overlapping generations economy in which endowments increase over time. Let y t = y t-1

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Consider an overlapping generations economy in which endowments increase over time. Let yt = αyt-1, where α> 1 Endowments are received by young people while old people receive no endowment. Preferences are such that a young person always wants to consume half of their endowment. The government’s only activity is to run an old-age pension plan. The government chooses a pay-as-you-go pension system in which taxes are collected from the young to pay the old-person’s pension. Assume the population is constant.
a. Write down the budget constraint for a young person.
b. Write down the budget constraint for the old person.
c. Derive the lifetime budget constraint.
d. Write down the government budget constraint. Assume the government runs a balanced budget each period.
e. Will an old person prefer a pay-as-you-go pension plan to an equilibrium in which no pension plan is operated?

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Modeling Monetary Economies

ISBN: 978-1107145221

4th Edition

Authors: Bruce Champ, Scott Freeman, Joseph Haslag

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