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Social Security, Optimality, and Equilibria in a Stochastic Overlapping Generations Economy

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  • Gabrielle Demange
  • Guy Laroque

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Social security institutions implement intergenerational transfers and distribute risks over time. To compare various social security designs, we study an overlapping generations model with demographic shocks. Production takes place through a neoclassical production function subject to productivity shocks. We give a near characterization of optimal allocations. We study rational expectations equilibria when contributions are mandatory, based on labor and capital income. We also describe the equilibria of an economy with a voluntary pay‐as‐you‐go social security fund, and show that they have a long‐run optimality property. An example with Cobb–Douglas production and utility functions illustrates the results.

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  • Gabrielle Demange & Guy Laroque, 2000. "Social Security, Optimality, and Equilibria in a Stochastic Overlapping Generations Economy," Journal of Public Economic Theory, Association for Public Economic Theory, vol. 2(1), pages 1-23, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jpbect:v:2:y:2000:i:1:p:1-23
    DOI: 10.1111/1097-3923.00027
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