Arbeitspapier
Population Aging, the Composition of Government Spending,and Endogenous Economic Growth in Politico-Economic Equilibrium
This paper introduces a democratic voting process into an OLG economy in order to analyze the e ffects of a rising old-age dependency ratio on the composition of government spending and endogenous economic growth. Forward-looking agents vote each period on the public policy mix between productive government expenditure and public consumption spending that benefi ts the elderly. Population aging shifts political power from the young to the old. While this does not aff ect public productive expenditure, it leads to an increase in public spending on the elderly and a slowdown in economic growth. However, the overall e ffect on long-term economic growth is positive. This is due to reduced capital dilution or increased saving.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Discussion Paper Series ; No. 510
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
Fiscal Policy
One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models
- Thema
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Demographics
Endogenous Economic Growth
Government Spending
Markov Perfect Equilibrium
Probabilistic Voting
Finanzpolitik
Alternde Bevölkerung
Neue politische Ökonomie
Endogenes Wachstumsmodell
Bevölkerungsökonomik
Theorie
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Kuehnel, Johanna
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
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Heidelberg
- (wann)
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2011
- DOI
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doi:10.11588/heidok.00011612
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-116120
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Kuehnel, Johanna
- University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
Entstanden
- 2011