On Sustainable Pay-as-You-Go Systems
35 Pages Posted: 27 Jul 2005
Date Written: March 2005
Abstract
An unfunded Social Security system faces a major risk, sometimes referred to as 'political risk'. In order to account properly for this risk, the paper considers a political process in which the support to the system is asked from each newborn generation. The analysis is conducted in an overlapping generations economy that is subject to macroeconomic shocks. As a consequence, the political support varies with the evolution of the economy. The impact of various factors - intra-generational redistribution, risk aversion, financial markets, governmental debt - on the political sustainability of a pay-as-you-go system is discussed.
Keywords: Pay-as-you-go, intra-generational redistribution, overlapping generations, social security system, political economy, risk
JEL Classification: C72, C78
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