While the established literature on central bank communication has traditionally dealt with communication of monetary policy messages to financial markets and the wider public, central bank communication on fiscal policy has so far received little attention. This paper empirically reviews the...

The issue of central bank communication on fiscal policy has so far received very little attention in the literature. This article aims to shed light on the determinants of central bank communication on fiscal policy by analysing the intensity of central banks’ fiscal communication for five...

Population aging will impose a significant burden on European pay-as-you-go pension systems. This study presents an estimate of this burden for the four largest euro-area countries and assesses alternative reform approaches. With prudent and realistic assumptions, the present value of future...

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...

This paper examines interactions between education policy and growth. The analysis is carried out in an OLG model with two types of individuals: skilled and unskilled. An increase in public education reduces private costs of education, increases the proportion of skilled individuals, and tends...

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...