A major empirical interest in growth studies is whether a permanent change in economic fundamentals affects the long-run growth rate. However, a direct time series analysis of this hypothesis may not always be feasible because the permanence of many such changes is rather questionable. This...

Many overlapping-generations models assume only working and retirement stages and are “not capable of representing the most basic feature of the human economic life cycle: that it begins and ends with periods of dependency, separated by a long intermediate period of consuming less than is...

Many studies specify human mortality patterns parametrically, with a parameter change affecting mortality rates at different ages simultaneously. Motivated by the stylized fact that a mortality decline affects primarily younger people in the early phase of mortality transition but mainly older...

The authors examine whether economic growth is generated endogenously or exogenously, and estimate the externality effects due to private and public capital respectively. Applying a multivariate stochastic cointegration method to U.S. data, they find that the evidence is unfavorable to the...

In order to analyze a multi-player linear-quadratic alternating-move dynamic game, this paper develops a solution method by making use of the similar structure of this game and a simultaneous-move dynamic game with alternating payoff functions. It then applies the method to investigate whether...

d'Albis (2007) considers a continuous-time general equilibrium overlapping-generations model with age-specific mortality rates. His proof of the existence and uniqueness of the steady-state equilibrium, which can be extended to other overlapping-generations models, relies on the shape of a...