Public Finance in an Overlapping Generations Economy

This book presents a theoretically-based comprehensive analysis of macroeconomic consequences of fiscal policy using a popular economic model: the overlapping generations growth model. A wide range of essential public finance issues is analyzed, including

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Public Finance in an Overlapping Generations Economy Toshihiro Ihori Projess01; Depar/menl of Economics University of Tokyo Japan

First published in Great l:lritain 1996 by

MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstokc. Hampshire RG21 6XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world A catalogue record for this hook is available from the Hritish Library. ISBN 978-1-349-39802-7 ISBN 978-0-230-38990-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230389908

First published in the United States of America 1996 by

ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, INC., Scholarly and Reference Division, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010

ISBN 978-0-312-16166-8 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data lhori, Toshihiro, 1952Public finance in an overlapping generations economy I Toshihiro lhori. p. em. Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-312-16166-8 (cloth) I. Finance, Public-Econometric models. HJI41.135 1996 336-dc20

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© Toshihiro lhori 1996 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1996 978-0-333-66192-5 All rights reserved. No reproduction. copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tollcnham Court Road, London WI P 9HE. Any person who docs any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. 10

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Preface and Acknowledgements

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Introduction The basic model Capital accumulation and efficiency Endogenous labor supply Bequests The multi-period framework Conclusion

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Overview Review of basic concepts

Introduction The optimal tax rule Tax reform and the timing of tax payments Capital income taxation Further topics

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Introduction The basic model and tax reform The dynamic simulation model with endogenous labor supply The separation of efficiency and redistribution Human capital investment Concluding remarks

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Introduction Fiscal spending financed by lump-sum taxation Fiscal spending financed by non-lump-sum taxation Optimal spending of public goods Public investment

The Open Economy Introduction

2 The two-country model 3 Negative international spillover effects of consumption taxation

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Money Introduction

2 Overlapping generations models with money 3 Money and inflationary taxes 4 Welfare implications of indexing capital income taxation

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