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Efficiency and Lack of Commitment in an Overlapping Generations Model with Endowment Shocks

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type="main"> This paper considers a pure exchange stochastic overlapping generations model in which, on each date, an economy faces an aggregate endowment shock. On each date, a young agent and an old agent simultaneously decide how much of their respective endowments to transfer to the other agent; however, a young agent cannot make promises about how much he or she will give when old. In this sense, an economy faces a limited commitment constraint. This paper characterizes an efficient intergenerational risk sharing allocation that satisfies a limited commitment constraint, and also studies the role of money and history in a stochastic overlapping generations economy.

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  • Koichi Miyazaki, 2014. "Efficiency and Lack of Commitment in an Overlapping Generations Model with Endowment Shocks," The Japanese Economic Review, Japanese Economic Association, vol. 65(4), pages 499-520, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jecrev:v:65:y:2014:i:4:p:499-520
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