We quantify the importance of idiosyncratic health risk in a calibrated general-equilibrium model ofSocial Security. We construct an overlapping-generations model with rational-expectations households,idiosyncratic labor income and health risk, profit-maximizing firms, incomplete insurance...

"We present a dynamic two-region model with overlapping generations. There are two types of public expenditure, education and infrastructure funding, and governments decide optimally on budget size (tax rate) and its allocation across the two outlays. Productivity of government infrastructure...

We present a dynamic two-region model with overlapping generations. There are two types of public expenditure, education and infrastructure funding, and governments decide optimally on budget size (tax rate) and its allocation across the two outlays. Productivity of government infrastructure...