Generational Accounting around the World

The realities of mounting government debt, tax burdens, and an aging population raise serious concerns about the financial legacy confronting future generations. How great a fiscal burden will current policies leave to subsequent generations, and how might changes in those policies alter the intergenerational distribution of public welfare? Generational accounting has recently emerged as a robust new method of fiscal analysis and planning designed to assess the long-term sustainability of fiscal policy and to measure the extent of the financial load ultimately borne by present and future gener

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Year of publication:	2007
Authors:	Auerbach, Alan J.
Other Persons:	Kotlikoff, Laurence J. (contributor) ; Leibfritz, Willi (contributor)
Publisher:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Subject:	Welt \| World \| Generationengerechtigkeit \| Intergenerational equity \| Finanzpolitik \| Fiscal policy
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

Extent:	Online-Ressource (548 p.)
Series:	NBER-Project Report A National Bureau of Economic Research project report National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Generational Accounting around the World; Contents; Introduction; 1. From Deficit Delusion to the Fiscal Balance Rule: Looking for an Economically Meaningful Way to Assess Fiscal Policy; 2. The Methodology of Generational Accounting; 3. Generational Accounting in General Equilibrium; 4. An International Comparison of Generational Accounts; 5. Argentina's Generational Accounts: Is the Convertibility Plan's Fiscal Policy Sustainable?; 6. Generational Accounting in Australia; 7. Generational Accounts for Belgium; 8. Generational Accounting in Brazil; 9. Canada: On the Road to Fiscal Balance 10. Public Debt, Welfare Reforms, and Intergenerational Distribution of Tax Burdens in Denmark11. Generational Accounting for France; 12. Unification and Aging in Germany: Who Pays and When?; 13. Generational Accounts for Italy; 14. Generational Accounts for the Netherlands; 15. Generational Accounting in New Zealand; 16. Generational Accounting and Depletable Natural Resources: The Case of Norway; 17. Generational Accounts in Sweden; 18. Thailand's Generational Accounts; 19. Generational Accounting in Japan; 20. Generational Accounting in Portugal 21. Generational Accounts for the United States: An UpdateContributors; Author Index; Subject Index;
ISBN:	978-0-226-03213-9 ; 978-0-226-03218-4 ; 978-0-226-03213-9
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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