The Economics of Hilbert's Hotel: An Expository Note
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Keywords
HilbertÂ’s hotel; overlapping-generations models; dynamic inefficiency; First Welfare Theorem;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D15 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Intertemporal Household Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving
- D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
- E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DGE-2023-07-10 (Dynamic General Equilibrium)
- NEP-HPE-2023-07-10 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
- NEP-MFD-2023-07-10 (Microfinance)
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