Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/26446 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 2401
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper revisits the role played by myopia in generating a theoretical rationale for pay-as-you-go social security in dynamically efficient economies. Contrary to received wisdom, if the real interest rate is exogenously fixed, enough myopia may justify public pensions but never alongside positive private savings. With sufficient myopia, co-existence of positive optimal pensions and positive private saving is possible if the real interest rate on saving evolves endogenously, as in a model with a neoclassical technology.
Subjects: 
Myopia
pensions
social security
dynamic efficiency
JEL: 
H55
E6
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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