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| Title: | | Generational Accounting as a Tool to Assess Fiscal Sustainability: An Overview of the Methodology  |
| Authors: | | Bonin, Holger Patxot, Concepció |
| Issue Date: | | 2004 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion paper series 990 |
| Abstract: | | The paper surveys the methodology of generational accounting, a tool for gauging intertemporal imbalance in government finances facing demographic transition. Starting from the fiscal balance rule providing the theoretical background, we review the methods of generational accountants for generating empirical projections of the items building up to the intertemporal government budget. We debate indication of generational redistribution by lifetime expected net tax payments and several indicators for fiscal sustainability found in the literature. Finally, the performance of generational accounts, which ignore behavioral and policy dynamics, is compared with that of generational welfare indicators based on overlapping generations general equilibrium models. |
| Subjects: | | generational accounting fiscal sustainability methodology survey |
| JEL: | | E62 H61 B41 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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