Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/25825 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 1780
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper studies the optimal long-run public intervention in a two-period OLG model where the probability of surviving the first period and the length of the second period can be influenced by distinct policies. While the optimal size of public intervention depends on the extra-productivity of public spendings in longevity, its optimal structure is determined by (1) differences in the productivity of each policy; (2) how growth would influence each longevity aspect under laissez-faire; (3) the dependence of each longevity aspect on past achievements. Given competing effects, the optimal intervention can hardly, under additive expected lifetime utility, be strongly unbalanced.
JEL: 
O41
E13
H51
I12
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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