Code
3F001311
Duration
01 October 2011 → 30 September 2015
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Social sciences
- Applied economics
- Economic history
- Macroeconomics and monetary economics
- Microeconomics
- Tourism
Keywords
fiscal policy
employment
pension reform
growth
Project description
This project investigates the linkages between fiscal policy (i.e. the level and structure of taxes and government expenditures), pension systems, employment by age, and economic growth within one coherent framework. We study the effectiveness and welfare effects of various policies to bring down government debt, and to raise employment (mainly of older workers), education of the young, and growth. Our main methodology is to construct, solve and simulate dynamic general equilibrium OLG models.