Ponencia
Optimal education and pensions in an endogenous growth model
Autor/es | Rey, Elena del
López García, Miguel Ángel |
Fecha de publicación | 2013 |
Fecha de depósito | 2017-02-09 |
ISBN/ISSN | 978-84-695-6945-0 |
Resumen | In OLG economies with life-cycle saving and exogenous growth, competitive equilibria in general
fail to achieve optimality because individuals accumulate amounts of physical capital that differ
from the one that maximizes ... In OLG economies with life-cycle saving and exogenous growth, competitive equilibria in general fail to achieve optimality because individuals accumulate amounts of physical capital that differ from the one that maximizes welfare along a balanced growth path (the Golden Rule). With human capital, a second potential source of departure from optimality arises, related to education decisions. We propose to recover the Golden Rule of physical and also human capital accumulation. We characterize the optimal policy to decentralize the Golden Rule balanced growth path when there are no constraints for individuals to finance their education investments, and show that it involves education taxes. Also, when the government subsidizes the repayment of education loans, optimal pensions are positive. |
Cita | Del Rey, E. y Lopez Garcia, M.A. (2013). Optimal Education and Pensions in an Endogenous Growth Model. En Estado del bienestar : sostenibilidad y reformas. XX Encuentro de Economía Pública (1-15), Sevilla: Universidad de Sevilla. |
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