This chapter surveys intergenerational altruism in neoclassical growth models. It first examines Barro's approach to intergenerational altruism, whereby successive generations are linked by recursive altruistic preferences. Individuals have an altruistic concern only for their children, who in...

How large should a monetary policy committee be ? Which voting rule should a monetary policy committee adopt ? This paper builds on Condorcet?s jury theorem to analyse the relationships between committee size and voting rules in a model where policy discussions are subject to a time...

[eng] Effects of Pollution Permits on Capital Accumulation in an Overlapping-Generations Model.. The authors use an overlapping-generations model to study the effects of the introduction of a market for pollution permits and the effects of a variation in the number of permits on long-term...

We contrast private and public ownership of environment in their ability to internalize the negative externality associated to the urge of the environment in the production process. This paper constructs a dynamic general equilibrium model with overlapping generations and property rights on...

This article examines the long-run equilibrium of an overlapping- generations economy with a population consisting of altruistic agents whose degree of altruism toward their offspring is heterogeneous. It shows that the steady state capital labor ratio only depends on the degree of altruism of...

Cet article compare les différentes hypothèses d'altruisme qui ont été étudiées dans le cadre du modèle à générations imbriquées. Deux visions concurrentes de l'altruisme se côtoient. La première due à Barro [1974] est proche de l'intuition que l'on peut avoir des solidarités au...

Several authors maintain that smokers impose a considerable burden on society through hospitalization and medical costs and lost output due to premature death. In this paper, supplementary costs related to smoking are estimated at 669 million dollars for the year 1986 in Canada. However, since...