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D. De La Croix and Ph. Michel, “A Theory of Economic Growth: Dynamics and Policy in Overlapping Generations,” Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511606434

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• TITLE: What Is the Natural Weight of the Current Old?

  AUTHORS: Damien Gaumont, Daniel Leonard

  KEYWORDS: Overlapping Generations Model; Learning-by-Doing; Social Welfare

  JOURNAL NAME: Theoretical Economics Letters, Vol.3 No.5, October 17, 2013

  ABSTRACT: We consider a simple overlapping generations model with an externality à la Arrow-Romer [1,2] and a government with fiscal powers. If it wishes to maximize a criterion depending on the lifelong utility of agents, is there a natural weight for the utility of the current old? We show in a simple example that this weight depends on the specific features of the model, in particular the length of the horizon, and cannot be chosen arbitrarily. Our result has a neat economic interpretation [2].